Preliminary Report on the Ground Waters of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1908 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Walter C. Mendenhall
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ISBN: 9781332349968
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Excerpt from Preliminary Report on the Ground Waters of San Joaquin Valley, California, 1908 Introduction. The agricultural situation in that part of the United States known as the Southwest is peculiar in that within it consumption tends constantly to exceed production. This is due to the large areas of desert, unsuited for agriculture but supporting many other industries. The entire irrigated acreage in the 11 arid States lying for the most part west of the crest of the Rocky Mountains was 7, 539, 545 acres at the time the Twelfth Census was taken in 1889. Since that date the irrigated acreage has been greatly expanded, and through the operation of the reclamation law and the impulse given by it to private enterprise that expansion will continue; but the population also has grown, and this growth in the future will be even more rapid than it has been in the past. In the States of Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico the mining industry becomes yearly of greater importance, and the influx of people engaged in it is increasing correspondingly. The growth of trade with oriental countries and the development of the mineral resources of Alaska have resulted in great accessions to the population of Pacific coast seaports, particularly those about San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound, and in greatly increased demands for food products. Southern California, as that portion of the State lying south of the Tehachapi Mountains is called, is receiving rapid recognition as a playground for the people of the entire United States, and of the thousands of tourists who visit this area each year many become permanent residents. Of the areas in the Southwest within which food products for its cities, its tourist centers, and its mining regions must be raised, the largest and most promising is the interior lowland known as the Great Central Valley of California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.