Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . till more than a dozen miles within the State. One or two of itsaffluents show water a little further west. The Saline has no water fur-ther west than the east line ^f Thomas county. The Solomons about thesame longitude. The Sappa and the Prairie Dog have only water in twocounties. The Whitewoman rarely shows any water at all. The Walnutand Sawlog not much west of the 100th meridian, and the Medicine verylittle west of the 99th, In many places these
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . till more than a dozen miles within the State. One or two of itsaffluents show water a little further west. The Saline has no water fur-ther west than the east line ^f Thomas county. The Solomons about thesame longitude. The Sappa and the Prairie Dog have only water in twocounties. The Whitewoman rarely shows any water at all. The Walnutand Sawlog not much west of the 100th meridian, and the Medicine verylittle west of the 99th, In many places these valleys are narrow and with steep banks, andthe visible water could only with difficulty be led out to irrigate bottomlands. Still, many areas of from fifty to five hundred acres on thesestreams can be irrigated with the visible water, and more can be usedfor the irrigation of smaller areas from five to fifteen acres each. Inplaces where it would be expensive to lead out the water to the land, itcan be made to serve considerable areas by making an inexpensive damthat will back the water up for from half a mile to two miles, and so, by 134. METHOD OF IRRIGATING GRAIN FIELD IN KANSAS. 135 Kansas; percolation, sub-irrigate the bottom land adjacent. A serie.; of three suchdams on the Prairie Dog, in Decatur county, in this way is making surecrops Oil- about 100 acres of that valley. A similar dam above Oberlin, inthe same county, is utilizing in the same way the waters of the dam at Norton Mill, Norton county, has also made fruitful a largefield in the same way, and a similar case is seen on the North Solomon,near Edmund. This method is available not only on these streams, butin the valleys of small creeks, and in short ravines supplied by springs. The largest of these streams would undoubtedly irrigate thousands ofacic^ by ordinary ditches, if proper conservation of waters by localre^^rvoirs were properly attended to. These river-beds, above the points we have named as h
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