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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... WESTERN KANSAS . COLORADO . WYOMING . WESTERN NEBRASKA . 41332 3 EL PASO AND LOWER RIO GRANDE ( TEXAS ) DIVISION 3 ...
... WESTERN KANSAS . COLORADO . WYOMING . WESTERN NEBRASKA . 41332 3 EL PASO AND LOWER RIO GRANDE ( TEXAS ) DIVISION 3 ...
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... western Texas without irrigation ? Mr. BRONSON . Nothing . In seasons of heavy rains occasionally a light crop of corn is made . But it is so entirely untrustworthy that it is not mentioned . The CHAIRMAN . You have been over the Nueces ...
... western Texas without irrigation ? Mr. BRONSON . Nothing . In seasons of heavy rains occasionally a light crop of corn is made . But it is so entirely untrustworthy that it is not mentioned . The CHAIRMAN . You have been over the Nueces ...
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... western Texas . The CHAIRMAN . Are you familiar with the topography of western Texas ? Mr. STREERUWITZ . I am as familiar with it as I could make myself within the last ten months and by short trips in former times . I am as familiar ...
... western Texas . The CHAIRMAN . Are you familiar with the topography of western Texas ? Mr. STREERUWITZ . I am as familiar with it as I could make myself within the last ten months and by short trips in former times . I am as familiar ...
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... WESTERN TEXAS . 11 far as I could ascertain in ten years , the annual rain - fall within a cir- cuit of 100 miles around Fort Davis has averaged 19.9 inches in Feb. ruary . Farther east , where I have my tent at the present time , I ...
... WESTERN TEXAS . 11 far as I could ascertain in ten years , the annual rain - fall within a cir- cuit of 100 miles around Fort Davis has averaged 19.9 inches in Feb. ruary . Farther east , where I have my tent at the present time , I ...
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... western Texas . He wishes me to demonstrate the necessity or no for appropriations looking to the investigation of the resources of the country for reservoirs , dams , and that sort of thing . The CHAIRMAN . We want the facts to show ...
... western Texas . He wishes me to demonstrate the necessity or no for appropriations looking to the investigation of the resources of the country for reservoirs , dams , and that sort of thing . The CHAIRMAN . We want the facts to show ...
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