California's Irrigation System: Clippings from the San Francisco Chronicle1870 - Irrigation - 116 pages |
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... company for the construc- tion of irrigation works . Canals were built costing hundreds of thousands of dollars , and water was diverted from every available source . Under this sys- tem many of the most prosperous settle- ments in the ...
... company for the construc- tion of irrigation works . Canals were built costing hundreds of thousands of dollars , and water was diverted from every available source . Under this sys- tem many of the most prosperous settle- ments in the ...
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... Company , all of which are very large enterprises , some of them rivaling the Ganges canal in magnitude and import- ance . To these may be added the Agra canal , from the Jumina , and the Eastern Ganges canal . All of these except two ...
... Company , all of which are very large enterprises , some of them rivaling the Ganges canal in magnitude and import- ance . To these may be added the Agra canal , from the Jumina , and the Eastern Ganges canal . All of these except two ...
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... company . ITALY . Governmental Control of Waters and Systems of Diversion . 1 Both in the laws regulating the control of the water and in the appliances for irri- gation Italy stands easily at the head of all the countries in which this ...
... company . ITALY . Governmental Control of Waters and Systems of Diversion . 1 Both in the laws regulating the control of the water and in the appliances for irri- gation Italy stands easily at the head of all the countries in which this ...
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... company up to $ 16.600,000 . The nominal capital of In Piedmont the total quantity of water the company was $ 16,000,000 , but al- applied to irrigation is 8290 cubic feet per though the Government guaranteed the second , not counting ...
... company up to $ 16.600,000 . The nominal capital of In Piedmont the total quantity of water the company was $ 16,000,000 , but al- applied to irrigation is 8290 cubic feet per though the Government guaranteed the second , not counting ...
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... company , municipality or pro- , wide , opening out upon the Mediterran- vince the privilege of conducting any ean toward the east . South of the plateau enterprise which would come under its region lie the valleys of the Guadalquivir ...
... company , municipality or pro- , wide , opening out upon the Mediterran- vince the privilege of conducting any ean toward the east . South of the plateau enterprise which would come under its region lie the valleys of the Guadalquivir ...
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Page 127 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 127 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense Whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 127 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 126 - ... acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share...
Page 126 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 126 - States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than onequarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State...
Page 120 - ... no instruction, either sectarian in religion or partisan in politics, shall ever be allowed in any department of the University, and no sectarian or partisan test shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of regents, or in the election of professors, teachers, or other officers of the University, or in the admission of students thereto, or for any purpose whatever.
Page 126 - States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents or less per acre : And provided further, That not more than one million acres shall be located by such assignees in any one of the States : And provided further, That no such location shall be made before one year from the passage of this act.
Page 127 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs...
Page 127 - ... that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States.