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    United States Bureau of Reclamation. The Act was co-authored by Democratic Congressional Representative Francis G. Newlands of Nevada, Frederick H. Newell...
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    Lake Tahoe Dam (category United States Bureau of Reclamation dams)
    Representative Newlands was finally able to successfully push his bill through. On June 17, 1902, Congress passed the Newlands Reclamation Act, thus creating...
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    westward expansion, he helped pass the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902, which created the Bureau of Reclamation and boosted the agricultural industry...
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    the Lahontan Dam, built in 1905 by the Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Newlands Reclamation Act and is located between Fallon, Nevada and Carson...
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    fountain honors Newlands, a U.S. senator and founder of Chevy Chase, Maryland. In 1902, Newland sponsored the Newlands Reclamation Act, which allowed the...
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  • Roosevelt's time in office. The Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902. The Kinkaid Act of 1904. The Forest Homestead Act (1906) allowed the patenting, or...
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  • Control Act 1987 Newlands Reclamation Act Niagara Falls Night soil Nitrate Vulnerable Zone No-dig gardening Noise (environmental) Noise Control Act Noise...
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    of Historic Places in 2010. After passage of the Newlands Reclamation Act in 1902, the Reclamation Service was the administrative center of irrigation...
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    Project, an early large-scale irrigation effort authorized under the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902. In 1916, the town was incorporated as Hot Springs. It...
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  • Reclaim (redirect from Reclamation)
    Project United States Bureau of Reclamation, a federal agency which oversees water resource management Newlands Reclamation Act, a 1902 United States federal...
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