v.3. Rocky Mountain region and Great Plains. v.4. Statements by Director Powell and other officers of the U. S. Geological Survey. Consular reports. General report on irrigation in United States. Miscellaneous papers. [v.5] Irrigation in the United States. By R.J. Hinton... being a 2d ed. of Misc. doc. 15, 49th Cong. [2d sessU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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... engineers ' surveys , and will designate reservoir sites , lines of ditches , etc. , and will make estimates of the ... engineer , and State- geologist for western Texas . The CHAIRMAN . Are you familiar with the topography of western ...
... engineers ' surveys , and will designate reservoir sites , lines of ditches , etc. , and will make estimates of the ... engineer , and State- geologist for western Texas . The CHAIRMAN . Are you familiar with the topography of western ...
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... engineer . I have been sent here by the Mexican department of public works to attend to the public work in the frontier . The CHAIRMAN . Have you given attention to the proposed dam and reservoir on the Rio Grande ? Mr. GARFIAS . Yes ...
... engineer . I have been sent here by the Mexican department of public works to attend to the public work in the frontier . The CHAIRMAN . Have you given attention to the proposed dam and reservoir on the Rio Grande ? Mr. GARFIAS . Yes ...
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... ENGINEER'S VIEWS ON THE EL PASO DAM . 33 of vital interest to them , as well as it is to the people on this side of the river . And there is nothing that I can see now that will give us this water except the establishment of that ...
... ENGINEER'S VIEWS ON THE EL PASO DAM . 33 of vital interest to them , as well as it is to the people on this side of the river . And there is nothing that I can see now that will give us this water except the establishment of that ...
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... engineer ; Colonel Candano , the Jefe Politico of the Canton del Bravo , and other local officials of the other side to whom I explained in detail the projected enterprise , which they one and all received in the most kind and ...
... engineer ; Colonel Candano , the Jefe Politico of the Canton del Bravo , and other local officials of the other side to whom I explained in detail the projected enterprise , which they one and all received in the most kind and ...
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... engineer be sent to run a line of levels for a canal frem the proposed dam , and to ascertain the quantity of land it would cover for 50 miles below , and that a committee similar to that of our Senate be organized to meet here in ...
... engineer be sent to run a line of levels for a canal frem the proposed dam , and to ascertain the quantity of land it would cover for 50 miles below , and that a committee similar to that of our Senate be organized to meet here in ...
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