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
... season at least . Percolation follows , of 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 ...
... season at least . Percolation follows , of 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 ...
Page 86
... season for a few miles below , but it never fails , later , to irrigate sufficiently with less water . There is one stream I know of that has been controlled by one company for eight or ten years . Originally that was a stream coming ...
... season for a few miles below , but it never fails , later , to irrigate sufficiently with less water . There is one stream I know of that has been controlled by one company for eight or ten years . Originally that was a stream coming ...
Page 111
... season the supply was insufficient for the usual pur- pose , and much suffering has arisen therefrom , and great farming values have been destroyed . In seasons of great rain - fall the water is sufficient to cultivate much larger areas ...
... season the supply was insufficient for the usual pur- pose , and much suffering has arisen therefrom , and great farming values have been destroyed . In seasons of great rain - fall the water is sufficient to cultivate much larger areas ...
Page 115
... season of irrigation that the waters are used ; during the non - irrigating season the waters flow away to the sea or are lost in the desert sands . There are also floods , especially in the earlier part of the irrigating season , when ...
... season of irrigation that the waters are used ; during the non - irrigating season the waters flow away to the sea or are lost in the desert sands . There are also floods , especially in the earlier part of the irrigating season , when ...
Page 124
... season of irrigation and all that run throughout the year can be stored , so that the waters of the Taos may ultimately be cut off from the Rio Grande . The region of country on either side of the cañon of which I have made men- tion ...
... season of irrigation and all that run throughout the year can be stored , so that the waters of the Taos may ultimately be cut off from the Rio Grande . The region of country on either side of the cañon of which I have made men- tion ...
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