Irrigation in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 - 240 pages |
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Page 15
... channels , with the surplus waters they controlled , by selling the latter to the farmers and horticulturists of the region . The quite recent ju- dicial decisions restraining the hydraulic miners from pouring their slickens or debris ...
... channels , with the surplus waters they controlled , by selling the latter to the farmers and horticulturists of the region . The quite recent ju- dicial decisions restraining the hydraulic miners from pouring their slickens or debris ...
Page 16
... channels and basins that have been worn through the surface and other strata . The streams and rivers of Cali- fornia do not carry volume enough to account for the amount of deposi- tion that must occur within the subdivision designated ...
... channels and basins that have been worn through the surface and other strata . The streams and rivers of Cali- fornia do not carry volume enough to account for the amount of deposi- tion that must occur within the subdivision designated ...
Page 20
... channel 20 feet wide by 4 feet deep , and carry this along the side of the cañon , and then round the side of the main range so as to command as large an area of level land as possible . The ditching , except in the rocky portions at ...
... channel 20 feet wide by 4 feet deep , and carry this along the side of the cañon , and then round the side of the main range so as to command as large an area of level land as possible . The ditching , except in the rocky portions at ...
Page 21
... channel is taken sufficiently far up the cañon to tap the stream without a dam , but in other cases it is found the lesser of two expensive works to dam the stream at a lower point rather than undertake the heavy quarrying or tunneling ...
... channel is taken sufficiently far up the cañon to tap the stream without a dam , but in other cases it is found the lesser of two expensive works to dam the stream at a lower point rather than undertake the heavy quarrying or tunneling ...
Page 35
... channels combined with the average precipitation and the storage of the snowfall in the higher cañons and channels of the Sierras to provide for the reclamation of a considerable portion of eastern Oregon and Washington Territory ...
... channels combined with the average precipitation and the storage of the snowfall in the higher cañons and channels of the Sierras to provide for the reclamation of a considerable portion of eastern Oregon and Washington Territory ...
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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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