. The great West: a vast empire. A comprehensive history of the trans-Mississippi states and territories. Containing detailed statistics and other information in support of the movement for deep harbors on the Texas-Gulf coast /by Dana. sas. It must be understood that in the above statement the primary facts and prin-ciples have been set forth, and general results given. Exact quantitative resultscannot be given at this stage of the investigation; but if the work of the irrigation survey is continued until the survey is completed, praol teal quantitative results willbe afforded. When the
. The great West: a vast empire. A comprehensive history of the trans-Mississippi states and territories. Containing detailed statistics and other information in support of the movement for deep harbors on the Texas-Gulf coast /by Dana. sas. It must be understood that in the above statement the primary facts and prin-ciples have been set forth, and general results given. Exact quantitative resultscannot be given at this stage of the investigation; but if the work of the irrigation survey is continued until the survey is completed, praol teal quantitative results willbe afforded. When the investigation was begun inder the instructions of the Secretary, Ihad not carefully OOnsidered the subject, and had made no collection of the availa bio facts relat ing thereto ; and 1 supposed that the waters of the South Platte and of the Arkansas falling in Colorado would he wholly or chietly utilized in Colorado?and I reasoned in this manner from the consideration that the i>eople of Coloradoare already engaged in these industries, and are more likely to specially develop Ir-rigation industries than are the people in Kansas and Nebraska, lint there wasanother consideration which engrossed my attention for the time. On the arid. Opening the Water. plains no perennial streams are born. The water which falls from the heavens is inthe main evaporated hack to the heavens, though when great storms, fall stormwaters, collecting for a few hours, or a few days at most, flow into the perennialstreams that head in the mountains and cross the plains ; and I suppose that likeresults would follow from the spread of irrigating waters on the lands. But experi-ence in California, in Utah, in Colorado, and on the (Jila in Arizona, abundanceexhibits the fact that the waters used in irrigation are but partially evaporated, and that a very large quantity finds its way again to the streams. It is thus that thefacts of experience have modified preconceived hypotheses. Ultimately a very large a
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