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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... expense . When you get down to that lower country , as a rule the streams are broad , and they flow great bodies of water . At those points cheap dams could be put in that would accumulate the water and make possible the tillage of a ...
... expense . When you get down to that lower country , as a rule the streams are broad , and they flow great bodies of water . At those points cheap dams could be put in that would accumulate the water and make possible the tillage of a ...
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... are hardly fit to irrigate with . One is charged with brine and the other one is too strongly alkali . Then there is Clear Water Fork ; but the valleys there are not to be taken into consideration for irrigation , because the expense of.
... are hardly fit to irrigate with . One is charged with brine and the other one is too strongly alkali . Then there is Clear Water Fork ; but the valleys there are not to be taken into consideration for irrigation , because the expense of.
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... expense of $ 150 , because they had the appliances to do it . The CHAIRMAN . Have you seen that dam ? Mr. LOGAN . I have not seen the dam , but I have books on the matter . They have scouring galleries . The CHAIRMAN . Describe them off ...
... expense of $ 150 , because they had the appliances to do it . The CHAIRMAN . Have you seen that dam ? Mr. LOGAN . I have not seen the dam , but I have books on the matter . They have scouring galleries . The CHAIRMAN . Describe them off ...
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... expense of the work save the one - half the expense of the dam proper , conditioned only that the Mexican Government shall appropriate a sufficient sum to cover the expense of constructing the other half of the dam and accept this ...
... expense of the work save the one - half the expense of the dam proper , conditioned only that the Mexican Government shall appropriate a sufficient sum to cover the expense of constructing the other half of the dam and accept this ...
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... expense . In the interior of Australia , 500 miles from the coast , I have known of sheep stations , intended to carry only five hun- dred sheep , which , by diverting the water , carried fifty thousand head of sheep within three years ...
... expense . In the interior of Australia , 500 miles from the coast , I have known of sheep stations , intended to carry only five hun- dred sheep , which , by diverting the water , carried fifty thousand head of sheep within three years ...
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