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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Rss. 7, 8. 1888. 619 VVhereas all the water flowing during the summer months in many of the streams of the Rocky Mountains, upon which chiefly the husbandman of the pllains and the mountain valleys chiefly depends for moisture for is crops, has been appropriated and is used for the irrigation of lands contiguous thereto, whereby a comparatively small area has been reclaimed; and Whereas there are many natural depressions near the sources and along the courses of these streams which may be converted into reservoirs for the storage of the surplus water which during the winter and spring seasons flows through the streams; from which reservoirs the water there stored can be drawn and conducted through properly constructed canals, at the proper season, thus bringing large areas of land into cultivation, and making desirable much of the public land for which there is now no demand ; therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the mG‘*f_l°€i°alS¤’v°Ym Interior by means of the Director of the Geological Survey be, and minis ¤i~)ii1i~t€;$$ "` he_is hereby, directed to make an examination of that portion of the arid regions of the United States where agriculture is carried on by means of irrigation, as to the natural advantages for the storage of water for irrigating purposes with the practicability of constructing reservoirs, together with the capacity of the streams and the cost of construction and capacity of reservoirs, and such other facts as bear on the question of storage of water for irrigating purposes; and that he be further directed to report to Congress as soon as practicable the result of such investigation. Approved, March 20, 1888. [N0. 8.] Joint resolution to enable the Secretary of the Interior to utilize the M3-mh 26- hot-water now running to waste ou the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for other purposes. _ . Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary {{§t§l¥’f;jj§?·bQ’§m,_ of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to utilize ushmmree seamen the Hot-water upon the reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, not “"’“""l‘°““s‘ necessary for the Army and Navy Hospital, the bath·houses erected and to be erected upon said reservation, and the bath—houses now erected and furnished with hot-water by authority of the secretary elf said reservation, by permitting its use by not exceeding three bath-houses to be erected by individuals below and off said Hot Springs reservation (the expense of obtaining said water to be borne by the roprietors of said bath-houses), said water to be furnished under the same restrictions and regulations as now govern the supply of hot-water furnished to the bath—houses above an off said reserva— tion. and that the water-rents for all bath-houses be increased to Rem Thirty dollars per tub per annum: Provided, That the new bath· {f;>_g*i;¢g\MS not w houses which maybe so erected shall not be owned or controlled by pé owned by mmm any person, company or corporation, which may be the owner or in- j.fjff,;°;‘jQn{;‘¤_”°““ terested in any other bath—house on or near the Hot Springs Reservation ; and if the ownership or control of any such bat —house be transferred to any person or corporation owning or interested in any other bath—house on or near sai< Reservation, the Secretary of the Interior shall, for that cause. deprive said bath—house of the hotwater, and also any other bath-house i11 which any such person or corporation shall be interested and shall cancel any lease from the United States which any such person or corporation may hold or be interested in. Approved, March 26, 1888.