Image: Book of Texas (1916) (14586900509)

Description: Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches) Title: Book of Texas Year: 1916 (1910s) Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948 Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page Contributing Library: Houston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Photograph by Wheelui Reinforced Concrete Flume on Main Canal Near Mercedes Text Appearing After Image: Photograph by Wheelus, San Benito Irrigating Onions at Harlingen One op the Shallow Artesian Wells at Lubbock Medina Irrigation Co. DamEight-million-dollar system built by Pearson of the Pearson Syndicate TURNING THE WATERS 201 sions. In 1730, to cite a conspicuous and still-existingexample, the San Pedro ditch, now surrounded by San An-tonio houses, was dug. Numerous other acequias weredug at the other missions, but, of course, judged by modernstandards, no very great acreage was watered. The early American settlers in Texas, coming by way ofthe well-watered East, did not practise irrigation, and itwas not till 1869 at Del Rio, after the population had spreadthrough the eastern half of the state, that what may becalled modern irrigation began in Texas. Since 1870 therehas been a gradual development, accelerated by two rapidexpansions, one in rice irrigation and the other in the lowerRio Grande Valley. The abundance, nearness, and cheap-ness of fertile and fairly well-watered land and Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Book of Texas (1916) (14586900509)
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Author: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937; Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
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