Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 |
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... irrigation . While there are many million acres that are now producing and will produce good average crops of all general kinds without irrigation , there are other large areas that will not , at least for many years to come , when a ...
... irrigation . While there are many million acres that are now producing and will produce good average crops of all general kinds without irrigation , there are other large areas that will not , at least for many years to come , when a ...
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... irrigation must of necessity be on a scale so large as to be practically beyond the reach of private capital . Two large irrigating canals are projected , one on each side of and down the Rio Grande , back from the river and skirting ...
... irrigation must of necessity be on a scale so large as to be practically beyond the reach of private capital . Two large irrigating canals are projected , one on each side of and down the Rio Grande , back from the river and skirting ...
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... IRRIGATION . Next to the settlement of our land - grant titles , the question of great- est importance to New Mexico is that of water storage and distribution for irrigation . While in some portions of the Territory , notably in the ...
... IRRIGATION . Next to the settlement of our land - grant titles , the question of great- est importance to New Mexico is that of water storage and distribution for irrigation . While in some portions of the Territory , notably in the ...
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... irrigation for very large areas of land on the dry mesas lying below , otherwise impossible of cultivation . The practice of taking water directly from the streams into irrigating canals , while practicable in the limited cultivation of ...
... irrigation for very large areas of land on the dry mesas lying below , otherwise impossible of cultivation . The practice of taking water directly from the streams into irrigating canals , while practicable in the limited cultivation of ...
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... irrigation to very large areas of country that are not now and never can be otherwise cultivated - lands , too , which are known to possess all the constituents of highly productive soil . It is true that somewhat serious obstacles ...
... irrigation to very large areas of country that are not now and never can be otherwise cultivated - lands , too , which are known to possess all the constituents of highly productive soil . It is true that somewhat serious obstacles ...
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Page 59 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 61 - That the creation of any obstruction, not affirmatively authorized by law, to the navigable capacity of any waters in respect of which the United States has jurisdiction, is hereby prohibited.
Page 62 - The very considerations which judges most rarely mention, and always with an apology, are the secret root from which the law draws all the juices of life. I mean, of course, considerations of what is expedient for the community concerned.
Page 58 - If, for the purpose of making the said rivers navigable, or for maintaining them in such state, it should be necessary or advantageous to establish any tax or contribution, this shall not be done without the consent of both governments. The stipulations contained in the present article shall not impair the territorial rights of either republic within its established limits.
Page 62 - Every important principle which is developed by litigation is in fact and at bottom the result of more or less definitely understood views of public policy; most generally, to be sure, under our practice and traditions, the unconscious result of instinctive preferences and inarticulate convictions but none the less traceable to views of public policy in the last analysis.
Page 118 - The owner or agent of every coal mine shall make or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of the workings of such coal mine, on a scale of one hundred feet to the inch.
Page 11 - As a conclusion of law the court found that the statute of limitations did not begin to run until the...
Page 118 - ... charge of the agent of such mine, and in all mines the doors used in assisting or directing the ventilation of the mine shall be so hung and adjusted that they will close themselves or be supplied with springs or pulleys so that they...
Page 61 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.