Land of Sunshine, Volume 17F. A. Pattee & Company, 1902 Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America. |
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... less timid , people happier , healthier , freer , more generous than some- where else ? Why gold ? Why oranges ? Why tidal migrations ? Why , in fact , California ? Well , simply be- cause the same old laws which keep the spheres from ...
... less timid , people happier , healthier , freer , more generous than some- where else ? Why gold ? Why oranges ? Why tidal migrations ? Why , in fact , California ? Well , simply be- cause the same old laws which keep the spheres from ...
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... less than half that time . And while Western impatience would take half a century for fairly conclusive , it is but a pin - prick upon the chart of evolution . Scientifically , only thus much is proved ; that into the third generation ...
... less than half that time . And while Western impatience would take half a century for fairly conclusive , it is but a pin - prick upon the chart of evolution . Scientifically , only thus much is proved ; that into the third generation ...
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... less time enough naked land to make a New England State has been translated into fruit - groves . When we come to consider , also , not only the enormous redistribution of water ( its diver- sion from streams to fields ) , but the still ...
... less time enough naked land to make a New England State has been translated into fruit - groves . When we come to consider , also , not only the enormous redistribution of water ( its diver- sion from streams to fields ) , but the still ...
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... less initiative clay . We are meddling even with climate . Something similar obtains sociologically . Perhaps it is not violent to say that other commonwealths have not done so much to man , even superficially . A Bostonian , certainly ...
... less initiative clay . We are meddling even with climate . Something similar obtains sociologically . Perhaps it is not violent to say that other commonwealths have not done so much to man , even superficially . A Bostonian , certainly ...
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... less money per capita , and less evenly distributed . In fact , it has no more of the modern conveniences , " and is rather more beholden to them , while it is far behind in the ancient conveniences of longer life , better health , more ...
... less money per capita , and less evenly distributed . In fact , it has no more of the modern conveniences , " and is rather more beholden to them , while it is far behind in the ancient conveniences of longer life , better health , more ...
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Page 300 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city.
Page 497 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 495 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado.
Page 296 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 580 - Thro' every hollow cave and alley lone Round and round the spicy downs the yellow Lotosdust is blown. We have had enough of action, and of motion we...
Page 256 - All able-bodied male inhabitants of the State, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, that are citizens of the United States, or have declared their intention to become citizens thereof, shall constitute the militia of the State...
Page 495 - Fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands in the said States and territories, and for the payment of all other expenditures provided for in this Act.
Page 495 - ... per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the "reclamation fund...
Page 502 - That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.