+----------------------------+-------------+---------+---------+ | | Estimated | | | | | volume of | Square |Acres of | | |flow during |miles of |irrigable| | Name of stream. | irrigating |irrigable| land. | | |season. (Feet| land. | | | | per second.)| | | +----------------------------+-------------+---------+---------+ |Virgin River | -- | 30 | 19,200 | |Kanab Creek | 15 | 2¹⁄₂ | 1,600 | |Paria River | 40 | 6 | 3,840 | |Escalante River | -- | 6 | 3,840 | |Fremont River | 269 | 38 | 24,320 | |San Rafael River | 1,118 | 175 | 112,000 | |Price River | 189 | 11 | 7,040 | |Minnie Maud Creek | 16 | 3 | 1,920 | |Uinta River | 1,825 | 285 | 182,400 | |Ashley Fork | -- | 25 | 16,000 | |Henrys Fork | -- | 10 | 6,400 | |White River | 1,468 | 75 | 48,000 | |Green River | | | | | Browns Park | -- | 10 | 6,400 | | Below Split Mountain Cañon | 4,400 | 50 | 32,000 | | Gunnison Valley | -- | 25 | 16,000 | |Grand River | 4,860 | 40 | 25,600 | | +-------------+---------+---------+ | Total | -- | 791¹⁄₂ | 506,560 | +----------------------------+-------------+---------+---------+ CHAPTER X. LAND GRANTS IN AID OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. BY WILLIS DRUMMOND, JR. The land grant system in favor of internal improvements has become a well settled policy of this Government, and has attained not only a social but a political importance. Like other American institutions its growth has been rapid, and donations of that character now cover millions of acres of the public domain. Of grants for railroads, wagon roads, and canals alone, however, will this chapter treat, and no reference other than necessary to a proper examination of the question will be made to concessions whose terms place the lands under specific disposal by the States, such as those for the establishment of schools, reclamation of swamp lands, etc.