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Excerpt from Second Biennial Report of the State Engineer to the Governor of Wyoming: 1893 and 1894 Determination of Rights to Water. Table of Streams on Which Rights have been Established. Extract from Kinney on Irrigation Law. Extension of Cultivated Area. Upper Platte Valley. Salt River. Wheat land. Northern Wyoming. Some Needed Legislation. 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.
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Excerpt from Report on Irrigation Investigations in Humid Sections of the United States in 1903 The report Of Professor Crane on the artesian basin of South Dakota shows that there have been large preparations for irrigation, but that the use of too much water has swamped the land and has in this way created a prejudice against irrigation in general and especially against the use of artesian water. However, irrigation is still practiced by market gardeners with good results, and experience has shown that there is no danger in the proper use of the artesian It is the use of too much water, rather than the quality of the water, which has done the damage. 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.
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Excerpt from How California Is Helping People Own Farms and Rural Homes Until about the end of the nineteenth century free or very cheap land was the economic foundation of this nation's democracy. A free homestead of 160 acres, said Frederick Howe, was a mirage of hope. It was the voice of opportunity calling to the pioneer.2 It formed one of the strongest political ties binding widely separated peoples together. It influenced the scale of wages for all workers. Men who did not feel content as wage earners became their own employers on a homestead. It fostered the hopeful, confident, and independent Spirit of the people. When the free fertile land was taken up, farms began to rise rapidly in price. Twenty years ago good irrigated or irrigable land could be bought in the Sacramento and Imperial Valleys for from $20 to $50 an acre. That same land now sells for from $100 to $500 an acre. The money which would have bought a farm twenty years ago is now absorbed in the first payment. The cost of farm improvements has risen with land prices. To prepare land for alfalfa costs more than double what it did five years ago. To plant and bring an acre of fruit or vines to the bearing age requires an outlay of money that no one would have risked a quarter of a century ago. A water right often costs more than the former price of both land and water. 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.
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Elwood Mead was born on January 16, 1858 on his father's farm near Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana. He was the oldest child of Daniel and Lucinda (Davis) Mead. His grandfather, James Mead, had been an architect in New York City but moved to a farm in Indiana, and both of Mead's parents were natives of that state. From his upbringing Mead derived an interest in farm life that he retained throughout his career.
As a youth Mead learned surveying, and for several years after completing school he surveyed and farmed during the summer and taught during the winter. Entering Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, in 1878, he supported himself by further teaching and surveying and graduated, B. S. , in 1882. He received the degree of civil engineer from Iowa State College in 1883, having meanwhile served for several months with the United States Corps of Engineers in a survey of the Wabash River.
Mead's experience in the semi-arid West began in December 1882 when he accepted an appointment as instructor in mathematics at the Colorado State Agricultural College at Fort Collins. Next spring he became professor of mathematics and engineering and in 1885 professor of physics and engineering. When the college's Agricultural Experiment Station was established, about 1887, Mead also served as its meteorologist and irrigation engineer. In 1888 he went to Wyoming as territorial engineer. The development of irrigation in the West raised legal problems, for the old English doctrine of riparian rights was clearly inapplicable in an area of water scarcity. Most western states had developed the doctrine of prior appropriation, by which a landowner could divert water for irrigation or other useful purpose if he filed with the county clerk a statement of the amount of water claimed. But with increasing settlement some system of regulating such claims became necessary. When Wyoming became a state in 1890, Mead was instrumental in incorporating into its constitution a new water law which became a model for the West. Under it, the state claimed title to all water and controlled its diversion, deciding priorities, enforcing them, and granting new water rights. Continuing as state engineer in Wyoming until 1899, Mead applied the new law and became widely known as an authority on irrigation. In that year he joined the United States Department of Agriculture as head of its Office of Irrigation Investigations. One of his investigations, in California, so impressed President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California that he invited Mead to organize (1901) a department of irrigation at the university, as professor of the institutions and practice of irrigation. This position Mead held, along with his federal post, until 1907. In the Department of Agriculture, in line with his state experience, he sought to encourage the development of private irrigation projects through a more rational water law.
He had little enthusiasm at first for the federal irrigation program instituted by the Newlands Act of 1902 and often criticized the policies of the Reclamation Service, the agency (in the Department of the Interior) to which the new federal program was entrusted. In 1907 Mead was called to Australia as chairman of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission of Victoria. There, over the next six years, he inaugurated a comprehensive plan of water conservation and reclamation that was widely acclaimed in Australia and elsewhere, involving the breaking up of large estates and state aid in placing settlers on the land. On his return to the United States in 1915 Mead rejoined the faculty of the University of California as professor of rural institutions and in addition became (1917) head of California's Land Settlement Board. In the latter post he inaugurated two notable experiments in cooperative group settlement on newly irrigated tracts. The success of such a project, he believed, depended on a well-developed settlement plan, with careful selection of qualified colonists, plus advice and financial aid. This philosophy of group settlement and cooperative effort under government guidance Mead soon had a chance to apply to the federal reclamation program. In 1923 he served on a special advisory committee the so-called Fact Finding Committee appointed to make a thorough restudy of the government's reclamation policies. Next year he was appointed to head the Bureau of Reclamation itself (the former Reclamation Service). Whereas previously the Bureau had limited itself strictly to the engineering aspects of irrigation the building of dams, control gates, and canals Mead placed equal emphasis upon economic aspects: soil surveys, land classification, agricultural reports. New laws passed as a result of the recommendations of the Fact Finding Committee aided him in carrying out his ideas, among them provisions for the selection of settlers for irrigation projects on the basis of experience, capital, and general character and for turning over the operation of such projects to groups of farmers organized as water users' associations or irrigation districts. Mead remained at the head of the Reclamation Bureau until his death. Among the projects begun during this period was the great Hoover (Boulder) Dam on the Colorado River. He died in Washington, D. C. , of a thrombosis and was buried there.
Dr. Mead, who had devoted his life to problems of drainage and irrigation, was one of the greatest engineers of his type in the world. As chief of the Bureau of Reclamation, following appointment by President Coolidge, he had supervision of irrigation works involving the construction of many of the largest dams in the Untied States, most of them projects for the development of electric power. In his honor the huge storage reservoir which the dam created was named Lake Mead. Lake Mead, America's largest man-made reservoir, was named after Dr. Elwood Mead.
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Mead was twice married: on December 20, 1882, to Florence S. Chase of Lafayette, Ind. , who died in 1897, and on September 28, 1905, to Mary Lewis of Scranton, Pa. By his first wife he had three children: Thomas Chase, Lucy Florence, and Arthur Elwood and by his second, three more: Catherine, Dorothy Susan, and John.
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12 May 1862 - 13 December 1862
25 April 1860 - 5 November 1941
22 February 1870 - 22 June 1940
9 February 1858 - 20 February 1897
12 August 1873 - 10 July 1953
10 July 1908 - 24 June 1974
8 December 1892 - 11 July 1987
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