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 37
... practicability of irrigating by ditches or whether it would be necessary and practicable to make use of reservoirs . The Snake River above Lewiston has falls and rapids , and thus may afford an oppor- tunity of running irrigation ...
... practicability of irrigating by ditches or whether it would be necessary and practicable to make use of reservoirs . The Snake River above Lewiston has falls and rapids , and thus may afford an oppor- tunity of running irrigation ...
Page 59
... practicable within a common drainage basin that can be supplied by water from one general source . Your committee conceives that such a policy is the natural and nor- mal accompaniment of legislation , which proposes to maintain the ...
... practicable within a common drainage basin that can be supplied by water from one general source . Your committee conceives that such a policy is the natural and nor- mal accompaniment of legislation , which proposes to maintain the ...
Page 62
... practicability of impounding water naturally arises . * * * The solution of this question is found primarily in an accurate determination of the depth of the annual rain - fall , with both the maximum and the minimum that may be ...
... practicability of impounding water naturally arises . * * * The solution of this question is found primarily in an accurate determination of the depth of the annual rain - fall , with both the maximum and the minimum that may be ...
Page 71
... practicable ; but by opening fountains along the Arkansas River , where the water is only about 3 feet below the ... practicability of the plan . We have these wells . We have within the present limits of Garden City a lake the bottom of ...
... practicable ; but by opening fountains along the Arkansas River , where the water is only about 3 feet below the ... practicability of the plan . We have these wells . We have within the present limits of Garden City a lake the bottom of ...
Page 72
... practicable for a farmer to come here and make a living without irrigation . Every attempt has been a failure , and there have been two occasions in the last nine years that a large portion of the population have left . IRRIGATION AND ...
... practicable for a farmer to come here and make a living without irrigation . Every attempt has been a failure , and there have been two occasions in the last nine years that a large portion of the population have left . IRRIGATION AND ...
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