Report of the Special Committee of the United States Senate on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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Page 27
... course , and in the course of time , as the irrigation engineers claim , the waters spread upon and absorbed by the soil return in large part to the chan- nel below where irrigation is practiced . But even if this return seepage be as ...
... course , and in the course of time , as the irrigation engineers claim , the waters spread upon and absorbed by the soil return in large part to the chan- nel below where irrigation is practiced . But even if this return seepage be as ...
Page 31
... course , as to the sources of this water . Opinions largely concurred in the belief that it may be derived from the drain- age of the eastern slopes of our northern Rockies . It is thought that this source can alone account for the ...
... course , as to the sources of this water . Opinions largely concurred in the belief that it may be derived from the drain- age of the eastern slopes of our northern Rockies . It is thought that this source can alone account for the ...
Page 44
... course , lake , or spring , or other natural source of supply . ( 2 ) Whenever any person or persons shall have had the open , peaceable , uninter- rupted , and continuous use of water for a period of seven years . A secondary right to ...
... course , lake , or spring , or other natural source of supply . ( 2 ) Whenever any person or persons shall have had the open , peaceable , uninter- rupted , and continuous use of water for a period of seven years . A secondary right to ...
Page 74
... course , is connected with that diversion . The question of reasonable time goes according , of course , to circumstances . But the proposition is , that if the ditch is dng with due diligence and the water is applied reasonably soon ...
... course , is connected with that diversion . The question of reasonable time goes according , of course , to circumstances . But the proposition is , that if the ditch is dng with due diligence and the water is applied reasonably soon ...
Page 79
... courses that rise in the Rocky Mountains , of a final diversion from them of their proportion of such flowing streams ... course of time the natural drainage of the irrigated fields fed from both surface and below , will be found to ...
... courses that rise in the Rocky Mountains , of a final diversion from them of their proportion of such flowing streams ... course of time the natural drainage of the irrigated fields fed from both surface and below , will be found to ...
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