The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . hydraulic miner; everycubic yard of tailings emptied into the remotest stream that joins thewaters flowing to the bay; every furrow turned on either
The Great West: its attractions and resourcesContaining a popular description of the marvellous scenery, physical geography, fossils, and glaciers of this wonderful region; and the recent explorations in the Yellowstone park ..by ..Also, valuable information to travellers and settlers concerning climate, health, mining, husbandry, education, the Indians, Mormonism, the Chinese; with the homestead, pre-emption, land, and mining laws . hydraulic miner; everycubic yard of tailings emptied into the remotest stream that joins thewaters flowing to the bay; every furrow turned on either watershed ofthe two great valleys of the State ; every tree planted or cut down; eachseasons snow or rainfall, and the more immediate questions of depth andwidth and carrying capacity of the stream to be leveed against; the cha-racter of the foundations and embankment and the cost of construction,—all these and more are factors in the problem. But as the extent of the undertaking is developed the increasing valueand importance of these lands renders them capable of supporting theinvestigation and removal of each and every obstacle as it presents it-self. The salt marsh-lands, having the best material for levees and subject onlyto overflow of the tides, can be reclaimed with the least difficulty andexpense. But, as the soil is saline and cannot be immediately cultivated,fewer attempts at reclamation have been made than on the SCENES IN THE YOSEMITE —Bridal Veil Fall. 2.—Mirror Lake. CALIFORNIA. 369 Of the latter the greatest amount of work and capital has been expendedon the fresh-water tide-lands; but large sums have also been spent uponthe fresh-water swamp-lands, especially on those magnificent tracts of thefinest alluvial soil in the world extending along both sides of the Sacra-mento River northward from Sacramento City. These rich, loamy lands, spreading in broad acres of level, unbrokensurface, affording before reclamation much pasture for she
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