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... rainfall . It is my conviction that the situation just set forth is of the gravest import to our city and county , and should be brought to the people's attention without further delay . $ 26,000,000 FLOOD CONTROL BONDS the above trend ...
... rainfall . It is my conviction that the situation just set forth is of the gravest import to our city and county , and should be brought to the people's attention without further delay . $ 26,000,000 FLOOD CONTROL BONDS the above trend ...
Page 167
... rainfall . Proposition No. 24 , proposing to permit irri- gation districts to use their funds for purchasing bonds of other subdivisions possessed of water rights , installations and further to transfer funds from one account to another ...
... rainfall . Proposition No. 24 , proposing to permit irri- gation districts to use their funds for purchasing bonds of other subdivisions possessed of water rights , installations and further to transfer funds from one account to another ...
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... rainfall , surface and soil which cause excessive erosion , and the means of reducing it for the protection of water - power resources . SOURCES OF SOLID BURDEN OF STREAMS The solid burden carried by streams is derived from several ...
... rainfall , surface and soil which cause excessive erosion , and the means of reducing it for the protection of water - power resources . SOURCES OF SOLID BURDEN OF STREAMS The solid burden carried by streams is derived from several ...
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... rainfall or other precipitation . A soil which is thoroughly granulated , even if situated on a moderate slope , is not subject to erosion . Such soils are fine gravels and coarse sands and soils of finer texture which are granulated on ...
... rainfall or other precipitation . A soil which is thoroughly granulated , even if situated on a moderate slope , is not subject to erosion . Such soils are fine gravels and coarse sands and soils of finer texture which are granulated on ...
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... rainfall , such as the mountairs of California , the Southwestern States , and the southern Appalachian and adjacent Piedmont regions , regions not only of concentrated rainfall , but of broken surface where it is possible for surface ...
... rainfall , such as the mountairs of California , the Southwestern States , and the southern Appalachian and adjacent Piedmont regions , regions not only of concentrated rainfall , but of broken surface where it is possible for surface ...
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Page 6 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 32 - That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 66 - BROWN (J. Croumbie), LL.D. Reboisement in France; or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the Pyrenees with Trees, Herbage, and Bush. Demy 8vo. Cloth, price I2s.
Page 137 - All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by this section.
Page 137 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 4 - But the value of property results from the use to which it is put, and varies with the profitableness of that use, present and prospective, actual and anticipated. There is no pecuniary value outside of that which results from such use.
Page 91 - Tables and Results of the Precipitation, in Rain and Snow, in the United States, and at some stations in adjacent parts of North America, and in Central and South America.
Page 33 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 54 - Plaisia, which disappeared during the entire time that the mountain remained cleared of its forests (from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth), and reappeared 30 years ago, when the work of reforesting the slope had been finished.