Uncle Sam's Farm: The Reclamation of the Arid Region of the United States by Means of Irrigation ...Gibson Bros., Printers, 1890 - Počet stran: 43 |
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Strana 26 - The use of all water now appropriated, or that may hereafter be appropriated, for sale, rental, or distribution, is hereby declared to be a public use, and subject to the regulation and control of the State, in the manner to be prescribed by law...
Strana 16 - A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
Strana 39 - City now are the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Strana 29 - Goverument to undertake the reclamation of the arid lands and provide for their settlement and sale. " (2; That the desert-land law be sO amended as to encourage individuals and companies to construct the necessary works for the reclamation of large bodies of said land. " (3) That Congress grant to each State of the arid belt, or to each Territory, upon its becoming a State, all the* irrigable land within its borders, held by the General Government, such States to be charged with the supervision...
Strana 10 - Approximately its dimensions are 1,200 miles from north to south and 1,300 miles from east to west.
Strana 23 - Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June 30, 1867, and for Other Purposes,'
Strana 20 - ... the Government water plant be, and the same are hereby, Canceled and relieved, and the liens upon the lands in said county created by such contracts are hereby released and discharged." This bill was submitted to the Secretary of the Interior for his views, and on June 3, 1912, he suggested to the chairman of the Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands that the bill be amended to read as follows : That the Secretary of the Interior be. and hereby Is, authorized to have appraised,...
Strana 40 - Rarely are they found to penetrate from sedimentary into igneous or plutonic rocks. DISTRIBUTION. Since the discovery of petroleum in commercial quantities in Pennsylvania the development of the oil fields of the United States has progressed rapidly, and the present oil and gas production of the United States is greater than that of any other country. Oil and gas are found in the Appalachian field at depths ranging from 400 to 3,000 feet, and are drawn from several horizons.
Strana 14 - The possible agricultural population which can find room here," he went on, "is simply incalculable" (p. 34), 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid,; Nimmo, "Uncle Sam's Farm," Frank Leslie's Illus. Newspaper (7 Dec. 1889), 322. Nimmo spoke too of "a mighty empire" arising out of arid-land reclamation, "the last, and perhaps the most important chapter in the history of the subjugation of wild lands to the uses of civilized man upon this continent.
Strana 22 - The several acte of Congress making appropriations for the pay, etc., of the enlisted men of the Signal Corps, approved May 4 and June 16, 1880, February 24, 1881, and June 30. 1882, respectively, provided for an organization of not exceeding 500 enlisted men. The act of October 2, 1888, making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government, etc., provided for the pay of 320 enlisted men only, as given in the above table.