Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 589
agnificent 240,000acres of promise were ableto secure water from thepartially filled reservoir (al-though the dam was not thenfinished) sufficient to givethem their first crops fromthat previous sage-brush des-ert—crops which are con-servatively estimated as hav-ing a selling value equal to one… … •■ IIIK (.KICATEST SAWMILL IN THE WORLD. of ten million dollars could be wiped out by thereturns from one crop from the 240,000 acres.Wheat at forty bushels per acre —a normal yieldfor irrigattu Intermountain land—would do it.Engineers and men of large experience in I9i6.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR…
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