Irrigation in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - 386 pages |
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... Colorado , Montana , and Nevada , with nine - tenths of California , one - third of Texas , and about one - third of Oregon ; also the Territories of Wyoming , New Mexico , Utah ; Idaho , and Arizona , with at ast one - third ( east of ...
... Colorado , Montana , and Nevada , with nine - tenths of California , one - third of Texas , and about one - third of Oregon ; also the Territories of Wyoming , New Mexico , Utah ; Idaho , and Arizona , with at ast one - third ( east of ...
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... Colorado , to where the river de- bouches from New Mexico into Texas and becomes the boundary - line between the United States and Mexico , has for many generations been the seat of local and unsystematized irrigation works . The Pueblo ...
... Colorado , to where the river de- bouches from New Mexico into Texas and becomes the boundary - line between the United States and Mexico , has for many generations been the seat of local and unsystematized irrigation works . The Pueblo ...
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... Colorado plateau descends to the valleys of the Gila , Colorado , and Rio Grande , formin the table - lands of Southern Arizona and New Mexico , there has alread been utilized a water supply sufficient for cattle , and in several ...
... Colorado plateau descends to the valleys of the Gila , Colorado , and Rio Grande , formin the table - lands of Southern Arizona and New Mexico , there has alread been utilized a water supply sufficient for cattle , and in several ...
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... Colorado Desert , about 140 miles long by 70 miles wide , which is the dry bed of a former inland sea . Another great basin , called the Mojave Basin , lying north of the Colorado Desert , extends into the southern part of the State ...
... Colorado Desert , about 140 miles long by 70 miles wide , which is the dry bed of a former inland sea . Another great basin , called the Mojave Basin , lying north of the Colorado Desert , extends into the southern part of the State ...
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... Colorado plateau formation of which the boundary mountains and mesas , or table - lands , are in fact a part . There are great stretches of arid mesa , or secondary table - land , which must be counted as desert , though the major ...
... Colorado plateau formation of which the boundary mountains and mesas , or table - lands , are in fact a part . There are great stretches of arid mesa , or secondary table - land , which must be counted as desert , though the major ...
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Irrigation in the United States Richard Josiah Hinton,United States Dept of Agriculture No preview available - 2016 |
Irrigation in the United States: A Report Richard Josiah Hinton,United States Dept of Agriculture No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 247 - ... for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same ; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Page 240 - Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of the Constitution; and in the mean time, shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without...
Page 247 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 156 - ... their free and voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth.
Page 240 - Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as defined by the present Treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thercof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever.
Page 173 - Priority of appropriation shall give the better right as between those using the water for the same purpose ; but when the waters of any natural stream are not .sufficient for the service of all those desiring the use of the same, those using the water for domestic purposes shall have the preference over those claiming for any other purpose, and those using the water for agricultural purposes shall have preference over those using the same for manufacturing purposes.
Page 172 - That private property shall not be taken or damaged, for public or private use, without just compensation.
Page 180 - If the board fail to appoint a board of election, or the members appointed do not attend at the opening of the polls on the morning of election, the electors of the precinct present at that hour may appoint the board, or supply the place of an absent member thereof. The board of directors must, in its order appointing the board of election, designate the house or place within the precinct where the election must be held.
Page 240 - ... in the said territories after the expiration of that year without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans shall be considered to have elected to become citizens of the United States.
Page 179 - Such petition shall be presented at a regular meeting of the said board, and shall be published for at least two weeks before the time at which the same is to be presented, in some newspaper printed and published in the county where said petition is presented, together with a notice stating the time of the meeting at which the same will be presented...