nd good engineering in the way of the irrigable area of this wonderful age and distribution can be found primitive wastefulness common to economy in the use of water which have already produced in the extate. Nowhere else in the world, and Central Asia, has the "duty of 1. As a consequence the price of urity of crops have all grown in a wenty years land which the owner cents per acre has been sold and is On the tract referred to and in greater comfort than else per acre. s on which this occurs are small in quite numerous. These areas may tems of water storage. They may on and conservation of the underhe neighboring mountain drainage. ke a close approximation of the reth the water "in sight" certainly mate. Water storage on a grand t, will insure the reclamation of at Merced. San Bernardino San Joaquin. Solano Tulare Yolo Total. Orange County was not formed in 1879. It mated for increase is on one part in 1879 to fo s, etc., as a consequence, is due at e increase in valuation. ,000. AS OF CALIFORNIA. That will extent and variety of its irrigation s behind several other communities tics and data. of the irrigated areas, number of the cost thereof, is not accessible. ble, consulting therefor the State of trade, evidence offered by local rns to the State board of equali profitable character of such fruit-raising. Land formerly per acre. The area of Califor Department of Agriculture to cent.; grassland, 11.5; woodla because largely mineral in favorably with the whole coun which are as follows: 41.6; 11 California shows on grain the Within the limits of the sec tending east and west from th dred and twentieth degree of the British to the Mexican bo t for the 21,500 acres irrigated is 3.60 per acre. The ditches of the cost $435,000, or a cost per acre rs to be, it is necessarily costly, ght is absorbed, storage becomes a onment finally of the small ditches, orks on a larger, and of necessity, g the medium between the two irrigation in Idaho may be set at cres of $1,187,000. 10 renders the reclamation of its 1. The need of storage is insisted system of Idaho can hardly be examation; the number and volume be considered. Some slight idea 1 by the presentation of a few of Cubic feet per second. 5,000 1,820 6,000 1,000 180 154 |