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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... present , runs over a sandy and friable bed and bottom land for at least 2 miles in width - in- volves constant troubles and often threatens disturbing collisions , both as to the boundary line of the two countries and the actual and ...
... present , runs over a sandy and friable bed and bottom land for at least 2 miles in width - in- volves constant troubles and often threatens disturbing collisions , both as to the boundary line of the two countries and the actual and ...
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... present at Cheyenne and urged upon the committee the importance of one or more sessions in that State . A subcommit- tee , with the Director of the Geological Survey , the engineer expert as- signed to the committee and the other ...
... present at Cheyenne and urged upon the committee the importance of one or more sessions in that State . A subcommit- tee , with the Director of the Geological Survey , the engineer expert as- signed to the committee and the other ...
Page 32
... present and prospective . The appeal is , in your com- mittee's judgment , a reasonable one , especially in view of the fact that there remains at least 21,000,000 acres more of public land still open to settlement . The chief crops of ...
... present and prospective . The appeal is , in your com- mittee's judgment , a reasonable one , especially in view of the fact that there remains at least 21,000,000 acres more of public land still open to settlement . The chief crops of ...
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... present systems of public land survey and distribution . Witnesses agreed on the need of reduc- ing the homestead and in considering that with irrigation 80 or even 40 acres were sufficient . It was also suggested that , with the ...
... present systems of public land survey and distribution . Witnesses agreed on the need of reduc- ing the homestead and in considering that with irrigation 80 or even 40 acres were sufficient . It was also suggested that , with the ...
Page 42
... present ditches , and 3,500,000 acres is the outside estimate given in the evidence of the amount reclaimable under the reservoirs proposed by witnesses and in county reports . Irrigation has prevailed in Utah for nearly forty years ...
... present ditches , and 3,500,000 acres is the outside estimate given in the evidence of the amount reclaimable under the reservoirs proposed by witnesses and in county reports . Irrigation has prevailed in Utah for nearly forty years ...
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