Irrigation in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - 386 pages |
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... considerable size , while the snow precipitation is also quite heavy . Inquiry and examination will satisfy the inquirer that in the extreme west the higher Sierras yield from the snow precipitation alone an amount of water which ...
... considerable size , while the snow precipitation is also quite heavy . Inquiry and examination will satisfy the inquirer that in the extreme west the higher Sierras yield from the snow precipitation alone an amount of water which ...
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... considerable streams , with an average length of about 120 miles . The upper half of each is in the steep and rugged mountains , where they are torrential in character . After reaching the plain their currents are gentle , and the banks ...
... considerable streams , with an average length of about 120 miles . The upper half of each is in the steep and rugged mountains , where they are torrential in character . After reaching the plain their currents are gentle , and the banks ...
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... considerable water be- ing obtainable from artesian wells . The artesian belt extends from one end of the valley to the other . A good flow is usually obtained in boring to a depth of 300 to 600 feet . The first successful boring for ...
... considerable water be- ing obtainable from artesian wells . The artesian belt extends from one end of the valley to the other . A good flow is usually obtained in boring to a depth of 300 to 600 feet . The first successful boring for ...
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... considerable area . Land in the southern San Joaquin Valley remote from water supplies has in only a very few instances advanced materially above Government price ; whereas that lying contiguous to or supplied with water has advanced ...
... considerable area . Land in the southern San Joaquin Valley remote from water supplies has in only a very few instances advanced materially above Government price ; whereas that lying contiguous to or supplied with water has advanced ...
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... considerable areas of the valley plains and table - land re- gions of Central and Southern California and elsewhere within our dry areas . The precipitation of rain and snow , with the annual melting of the latter , would be in itself ...
... considerable areas of the valley plains and table - land re- gions of Central and Southern California and elsewhere within our dry areas . The precipitation of rain and snow , with the annual melting of the latter , would be in itself ...
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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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acequia acres aforesaid agricultural appointed appropriation of water artesian assessment average basin board of directors California canal cañon capacity cent certificate channel claim Colo Colorado construction corporation cost Creek crops cubic feet cubic foot cultivated Dakota damages decree depth distribution district court ditch divert division drainage duty election engineer entitled estimated farms feet per second feet wide filed flow flume Fresno Fresno County furnish head-gate hereby inches interest irrigation irrigation district Kern Kern Island Kern River Lake located miner's inches mountains natural stream necessary Nevada notice owner or owners paid party payment person or persons petition pipe portion quantity rain-fall reclamation region reservoir Riparian rights River San Joaquin Valley soil square miles storage sufficient surface Territory thereof tion Utah Valley water commissioner water district water rights water supply water-course width
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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...