The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 477
nsas wouldmake splendid farming land if itonly could be irrigated. The reclaimedswamp lands of the Sacramento and SanJoaquin Rivers are in many respects therichest agricultural areas in the world;and strangely enough, to anyone unac-quainted with California conditions, theprincipal problem in their… … Corrv^a/a/ 0u//r/K*t/ The matter seemed at first a very sim-ple one—to let water flow from a higherlevel to a lower was something like theproverbial rolling off a log. But, just asDarius Green found it much easier tofly than to light so the Island Countryranchers have found by hard experiencethat a…
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