Irrigation in UtahThe Commission, 1895 - 128 σελίδες |
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acres acres of land Adams & Kiesel agricultural amount of water annual arid lands arid region artesian asphaltum average Bear River beets BRIGHAM YOUNG COLLEGE bushels C. L. STEVENSON Cache County canals canyons cent cession claim climate co-operation Colorado construction cost Creek crops cubic foot cultivation desert distribution district ditches diverted dollars enacted engineer evaporation fact factory farm farmers favor fields flow forests fruits grain granted hundred Idaho inches increase irrigable lands labor laws legislatures Lucerne Lucerne Valley miles million mountain Ogden population potatoes present prior appropriation profitable proper public lands purposes quantity question railway rainfall reclamation require Salt Lake City Salt Lake Valley season seed settlement settlers sewage snow soil storage reservoirs streams success sugar Territory Territory of Utah thousand tion total acreage tracts United Utah Irrigation Commission Valley Wasatch Wasatch Mountains water rights water supply Weber County wheat winter Wyoming
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 51 - And he gave it for his opinion, " that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to hist country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Σελίδα 51 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Σελίδα 25 - That the provisions of this act be extended to and their benefits be conferred upon each of the other States of the Union in which such swamp and overflowed lands, known and designated as aforesaid, may be situated.
Σελίδα 98 - public use" is also an expression of in* definite signification, and its application to the facts of any particular case is also to be determined from evidence. The supplying of water to a tract of agricultural land, though of many thousand acres in extent, if occupied by an individual proprietor, would be for hi.s private benefit, and not a public use, yet the same tract of land might be so subdivided and held in individual proprietorship as to render the supply of water to it a public instead of...
Σελίδα 7 - ... so much so that the most successful irrigators are invariably those who use the least water. The less water, indeed, with which grain can be brought to maturity, the finer the yield. Colonel Charles L. Stevenson states, with reference to the methods of irrigation in use in Utah: — * "Each farmer has canals leading from the main one to every field, and generally along the whole length of the upper side of each field. Each field has little furrows, a foot or more apart and parallel with each...
Σελίδα 99 - ... use. It is not necessary that the entire public shall enjoy the use, or even that it be capable thereof, but the use must be capable of enjoyment by all who may be within the neighborhood, and there must be within that neighborhood so great a number of the entire public as to destroy its character as a private...
Σελίδα 34 - Black crickets came down by millions and destroyed our grain crops ; promising fields of wheat in the morning were by evening as smooth as a man's hand, — devoured by the crickets. . . . At this juncture sea Gulls came by hundreds and thousands, and before the crops were entirely destroyed these Gulls devoured the insects, so that our fields were entirely freed from them.
Σελίδα 94 - ... soon put an end to that conception. More stringent regulations may still be made in places, which will benefit not only those who have at present water rights in a certain stream, but also those desiring to divert water from the same. There are many appropriators who still demand the amount of water claimed by them at first, although that amount is many times more than is actually needed by them for the purpose to which they apply it. Having no knowledge whatever of the proper use of water as...
Σελίδα 25 - That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamps and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said State.
Σελίδα 96 - ... a little more moisture. The individual who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is held in highest emulation as a benefactor of his race. How then, shall we rank him, who, by judicial fiat alone, can cause 800 inches of water to run where Nature only put 100 inches?