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Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States, with a more detailed account of the lands of UtahPowell, John Wesley

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Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States, with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah

Name: Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States, with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah
Author: Powell, John Wesley

Powell, John Wesley

Irrigation -- Utah; Irrigation -- West (U.S.); Public lands -- United States; Rain and rainfall -- West (U.S.)

+----------------------+--------+-------+---------------------------+
 |                      |        |  Mean |      Percentage of        |
 |                      |        |annual |      annual rainfall.     |
 |    Station.          | Longi- | rain- +---------------------------+
 |                      | tude.  | fall. |Spring.      | Autumn.     |
 |                      |        |       |      |Summer.     |Winter.|
 +----------------------+--------+-------+------+------+-----+-------+
 |                      |  °  ´  |Inches.|      |      |     |       |
 |Western Texas         |   --   |   --  |  19  |   36 |  31 |   14  |
 +----------------------+--------+-------+------+------+-----+-------+
 |Fort Union, N. Mex    | 104 57 | 19.15 |  11  |   62 |  20 |    7  |
 |Cantonment Burgwin,   |        |       |      |      |     |       |
 |         N. Mex       | 105 30 |  8.65 |  18  |   34 |  28 |   20  |
 |Fort Stanton, N. Mex  | 105 38 | 20.94 |  14  |   51 |  23 |   12  |
 |Santa Fé, N. Mex      | 106 02 | 14.91 |  14  |   46 |  23 |   17  |
 |Albuquerque, N. Mex   | 106 38 |  8.11 |  10  |   54 |  25 |   11  |
 |Fort Fillmore, N. Mex | 106 42 |  8.42 |   5  |   50 |  36 |    9  |
 |Fort Selden, N. Mex   | 106 55 |  8.49 |   7  |   57 |  22 |   14  |
 |Fort Craig, N. Mex    | 107 00 | 11.06 |   6  |   53 |  31 |   10  |
 |Fort McRae, N. Mex    | 107 03 | 11.59 |  21  |   53 |  20 |    6  |
 |Fort Wingate, N. Mex  | 107 45 | 17.32 |  11  |   38 |  20 |   31  |
 |Fort Bayard, N. Mex   | 108 30 | 14.32 |  11  |   50 |  16 |   23  |
 |Fort Defiance, Ariz   | 109 10 | 14.21 |  14  |   42 |  26 |   18  |
 |Camp Bowie, Ariz      | 109 30 | 15.26 |   9  |   48 |  13 |   30  |
 |Camp Grant, Ariz      | 110 40 | 15.08 |  14  |   41 |  22 |   23  |
 |Camp McDowell, Ariz   | 111 36 | 11.45 |  10  |   42 |  15 |   33  |
 |Camp Verde, Ariz      | 111 54 | 10.85 |  12  |   43 |  22 |   23  |
 |Camp Whipple, Ariz    | 112 20 | 19.28 |  20  |   42 |  11 |   27  |
 |Camp Mohave, Ariz     | 114 36 |  4.65 |  18  |   27 |  20 |   35  |
 +----------------------+--------+-------+------+------+-----+-------+
 |San Francisco Region  |   --   |  --   |  25  |    1 |  14 |   60  |
 +----------------------+--------+-------+------+------+-----+-------+

In all this region the daily range of temperature is great, and frosts
occur so early in autumn that no use can be made of the autumnal
rainfall. The yearly precipitation is very small, and the summer quota
rarely exceeds seven or eight inches. Nevertheless the Pueblo Indians
have succeeded, in a few localities, and by a unique method, in raising
maize without irrigation. The yield is too meagre to tempt the white
man to follow their example, and for his use the region is agricultural
only where it can be watered artificially.




                              CHAPTER IV.

                             WATER SUPPLY.

                           BY G. K. GILBERT.

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