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Zeutschel OS7000, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 8,225,040 bytes68th Congress, 1st Session, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Report No. 618 SAN CARLOS IRRIGATION PROJECT----------------May 1, 1924. --Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed---------------Mr. Snyder, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 966] The Commitee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (S. 966) for the continuance of construction work on the San Carlos Federal irrigation project in Arizona, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass with the following amendment: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following: That the Secretary of the Interior, through the Indian Service, is hereby authorized to construct a dam across the canyon of the Gila River near San Carlos, Arizona, as a part of the San Carlos irrigation project, as contemplated in the report of the chief engineer of the Indian irrigation service submitted to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on November 1, 1915, at a limit of cost of $5,500,000, for the purpose, first, of providing water for the irrigation of lands alloted to Pima Indians on the Gila River Reservation, Arizona, now without an adequate supply of water and, second, for the irrigation of such other lands in private ownership, as in the opinion of the said Secretary, can be served with water impounded by said dam without diminishing the supply necessary for said Indian lands: Provided, That the total cost of the project shall be distributed equally per acre among the lands in Indian ownership and the lands in private ownership that can be served from the waters impounded in said reservoir. Sec. 2. That the construction charge assessed against the Indian lands shall be reimbursable to the Treasury of the United States on a per acre basis under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and there is hereby created a lien against all such lands, which lien shall be recited in any patent issued therefor, prior to the reimbursement of the total amount chargeable against such land: Provided, That after said project is completed, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, with the approval of the Pima Indians, to sell at public auction, at not less than the appraised value thereof, such surplus lands not now allotted within said Gila River Indian Reservation as he may determine to be irrigable from return and drainage waters, the proceeds of such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to reimburse the United States in part for the construction charge assessed against the Indian lands