. Book of Texas . the just turns the crank when he wants it to rain:When he wants it to quit he turns it again.— The Man with the Plow in the Beautiful Leon Valley, by G. A. Beeman. WHEN Coronado journeyed northward in 1540 onhis vain search for the golden cities of Cibola hefound irrigated fields along the Rio Grande inthe neighborhood of the as yet unborn El Paso. An oldIndian tradition tells us that the Yumas had great irrigationworks on the Pecos, centuries ago, and that the raids of theApaches and Conianches forced them to move westward tothe Rio Grande and later to the Great Colo
. Book of Texas . the just turns the crank when he wants it to rain:When he wants it to quit he turns it again.— The Man with the Plow in the Beautiful Leon Valley, by G. A. Beeman. WHEN Coronado journeyed northward in 1540 onhis vain search for the golden cities of Cibola hefound irrigated fields along the Rio Grande inthe neighborhood of the as yet unborn El Paso. An oldIndian tradition tells us that the Yumas had great irrigationworks on the Pecos, centuries ago, and that the raids of theApaches and Conianches forced them to move westward tothe Rio Grande and later to the Great Colorado River inArizona. In support of this story, at Toyah Springs thereare evidences of very old and primitive irrigation the Pueblos and some of the other western In-dians practised irrigation many hundreds of years beforeColumbus meditated on the rotundity of the earth. It wastherefore following custom for the Spanish padres to em-ploy the Indians in building irrigation ditches on their mis- 200. Photograph by Wheelus, San Benito Flume, Twenty-six by Eleven Feet, on the Rio GrandeCarrying 250,000 gallons per minute, and supplied by two 60-inch centrifugal pumps
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