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Umax Powerlook 2100XL, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,350,064 bytesVale irrigation project (formerly called Warm Springs) Oregon: For continued investigations, and for first payment toward purchase of an interest in the Warm Springs Reservoir, $250,000. Salt Lake Basin irrigation project, Utah: For continued investigations, commencement of construction, and incidental operations, $1,500,000. Yakima irrigation project, Washington: For continued investigations, commencement of construction of the Kittitas Division, and incidental operations, $1,500,000. Sec. 2. That no part of any sum provided for herein shall be expended for construction on account of any division of any project until an appropriate repayment contract, in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been properly executed by a district or districts organized under State law, embracing the lands irrigable under such division, and the execution thereof shall have been confirmed by decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, which contract, among other things, shall contain an appraisal approved by the Secretary of the Interior, showing the present actual bona fide value of all such irrigable lands fixed without reference to the proposed Government development, and shall provide that until the Government construction charges against such lands shall have been fully paid, upon any and every sale of the land or any interest therein 50 per centum of all moneys, credits, and property received therefor above the value thereof as shown by said appraisal, shall belong to the United States to be credited in reduction of the construction charge against the land so sold, and the Secretary of the Interior may convert into money through legal process, if necessary, any such credits or property so belonging to the United States; and all public lands irrigable under such division shall be entered subject to the conditions of this section which shall be applied thereto: Provided, That no part of any sum provided for herein shall be expended for construction on account of any division of any project until all areas of land irrigable under such division and owned by any individual in excess of one hundred and sixty irrigable acres shall have been conveyed in fee to the United States free of encumbrance to again become a part of the public domain, under a contract between the United States and the individual owner providing that the value as shown by said appraisal of the land so conveyed to the United States shall be credited in reduction of the construction charge thereafter to be assessed against the land retained by such owner; and lands so conveyed to the United States shall be subject to disposition under the reclamation law when so ordered by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That no part of any sum provided for herein shall be expended for construction on account of any division of any project until an appropriate contract in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall have been properly executed by all holders of Federal land grants of more than one hundred and sixty acres irrigable under much division, which shall provide for the sale of such lands to actual bona fide settlers at not more than the value thereof as shown by said appraisal: And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to lands to be served with water from the Guernsey Reservoir of the North Platte irrigation project, to land to be served with water under the Warren act of February 21, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 925), nor to Indian lands in any project. The Chairman. I am glad to note that the fact-finding commission on irrigation have taken the account some effect of the law we put in through this committee several years ago, in regard to these repayments, etc., and I am glad to hear the recommendation that before we go ahead with any project there must be a contract with somebody to use the water and pay for it eventually. Is there anything else you want to say to us, particularly? Mr. Campbell. No, sir. I think that is all, Mr. Chairman. I will be here for perhaps a week or more at hearings before different committees in reference to some general recommendations, on United States Reclamation, and shall be glad to appear before you at any time. The Chairman. It has been a great pleasure to me, Governor, to have you. It has always been a pleasure to know you, and I am glad to meet you as a witness