Show I f FINAL L PROOFS A I IN DESERT ENTRIES T IS Secy See SeC Hitchcock Ht Renders Decision That Wilt Wi Stop Work Worl or of Des Desert Desert ert Laud Land Thieves IRRIGATION MUST BE ACTUAL Must Have lave Absolute Right To 10 Sufficient Water iter to Successfully S Irrigate te Land LandS Special S to the News Washington D P C 0 Feb rul rulIng rd lag Ing of ot Secy SeC Hitchcock today In re regard garth gard to final proofs In la desert land lanti en entries entries tries tlc will mill wi put Pt the tho screws rew II to the time desert deBert land thieves and ad throw n a I scare Into thousands of or applicants for or patents patent under the desert land law The Tho ruling Is time tho tle result of nn an In Inquiry concerning time the acceptance by bytho bytho bythe tho the land of final proof of nn imn en tryman In Wyoming said lall proof con can ousting Dieting of or evidence showing that a I marked Increase In the tle growth of at grass grassor or grass ass to support stock stok lind hoid been produced on 01 desert land It I scents rooms that certain expressions In Unit decision had Iud been ben taken uS as Indicating a aUrl purpose Url O to e e time the offer otter and sanction notion fa the time acceptance of Until final proofs In detect land entries that do not dear clear dearly clearly cle r rIy ly Iy establish n a strict compliance with all the tho requirements of law lass That such Buch u 1 result was WI not contemplated when that decision Was isas rendered anti and that the time department does coel not Intend there thero shall bo be b any relaxation of ot time the enforce meat ment of or time the requirements amid that tha tho law and regulations governing such matters ater must be compiled with In every essential particular Is most moat clearly set forth in the tho ruling today The fhe secretary holds that must have on nn absolute right to cut sut water vater to successfully Irrigate the tho theland tholand theland land flint Tnt the of ditches to conduct the water to nod distribute It I over vor the time land must bo be adequate tot for this purpose and ond that the time land must bo be actually Irrigated for tor a n sufficient period of ot time to demonstrate the cut suf sufficiency of tho the water supply and ond ef et of the system are aro essential facts faola which must mURt In nil all ni cases sC be clear clearly ly h established by bV tho the proofs prout Actual must mount as a rule rulo bo be shown I If however It be bo shown and It I must ho bo holade made lade to conclusively so appear that because of climatic conditions crops other oilier than grass gra cannot bo ho successfully produced or that actual tillage of time the soil will ivill wi destroy or Injure itt Its 11 productive qualities qu all tel the time actual production J of a I crop crol of ot hay Imay of merchantable merchantable value nU ns nR time the result of or actual Irrigation may cony mn ho bo hou accepted u as sll clent compliance with the th requirements as ns to cultivation Proofs which show how that because of ot Ir Irrigation thero Is on tho time land hlll a I marked Increase In II tho time growth of o grass or that gioM to support stock has been produced on 01 all al the tho land wilt will wi not be accepted nc ns tic coin COllI with that provision of tho the amendatory act of 1891 that proof shall sll be bo further required of ot tho timo cultivation of at of at the tho land This ruling directly affects applicants appl cattle cants for tor patents to lands buds under tinder u number of or the tho large Irrigation ditches In severn several of ot time tha western wester states Un Under Under der dee thin decision tho time mere moore presentation l of ot a I water right secured by b purchase from a 1 company will wi not bo IJo b considered proof proC It I must bo lie l accompanied I by 1 conclusive evidence that tha timo capacity of or time the ditch dich antI tho tIme water supply ly tOO to Irrigate time the theland th land that the tho illIcit ditch company has imas ac no actually tally supplied the tho required that the time land has hus been Leen actually cultivated cult It I IMS Imas frequently been tho time practise of O largo large canal companies to soil uell lel rights far In excess of tho the water ater sup cUll supply ply or tho the carrying capacity of ot tho the and this titis decision by rendering pitch water wlter rights right of no value as nit 18 proofs I may servo serve to protect Innocent purchasers ers era who contemplate taking up homes homel on nit desert lands In itt 11 tho the vicinity of ot these thelo |