Irrigation in the United States
Subtitle: testimony of Elwood Mead, Irrigation Expert in Charge, before the United States Industrial Commission, June 11 and 12, 1901
Contributors: United States. Industrial Commission on Agriculture and Agricultural Labor; United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Series: Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations -- no. 105; Bulletin (United States. Office of Experiment Stations) -- no. 105.
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1901
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Irrigation
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beginnings of irrigation in the United States; title: Importance of irrigation in the United States; title: Irrigation in the United States the result of private enterprise; title: Evolution of water laws in the arid region; title: Establishment of titles to water; title: Meaning of term "water right" and water-right contracts; title: Building of canals and distribution of water; title: Losses of water by seepage; title: Filling of canals by silt; title: Controversies over titles to water; title: Principles governing water rights in Canada and Wyoming; title: Irrigation a State question; title: Leasing of the public grazing lands; title: National aid extended by land grants; title: Cost and value of irrigation; title: Products of the arid region; title: National aid for irrigation Interstate water-right complications; title: Irrigation in the humid sections; title: Filling of reservoirs by silt; title: Appendix.