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Title: Sunnyside irrigation canal; Washington irrigation company, proprietor ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Washington irrigation company, Zillah, Wash. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Irrigation
Publisher: Seattle, Lowman & Hanford stationery and printing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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n was maintained, is that a few miles below the point where it crosses the Hassayamba creek,it traverses a mesa or bench for several miles, from which it falls abruptly into a valley some forty or fifty feet.Where this fall takes place the waters of the canal have cut away for several feet the walls of the mesa,which are of the hardest volcanic character. As every evidence indicates that the erosion of the rock has beenaccomplished by the action of ths water alone, centuries must have been required for the work. Upon the faceof the rock thus cut away are to be found hieroglyphics of every description, of the meaning of which the presentaborigines know nothing. From these inscriptions the white man has given them the name of Painted Rocks * All this teaches the lesson that in the higher civilization of olden times, irrigation was the handmaid ofthe husbandman. To it he owed his prosperity. To it a teeming population looked for subsistance. From it * Kinney on Irrigation, Sec. 15. •-t
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ILATE i Furrow System of Irrigation Kings, Monarchs and Pharaohs received revenues to carry on worlds of an and public utility, which are stillstupendous in their ruins. These great irrigation systems, nnarvelous in their parts, built in instances with quar-ried stone and in others hewn from the solid rock, make vivid the thought that where nature does the most mandoes the least; and where he firmly grasps and supplements what nature has suggested, this becomes the theaterof his greatest action and gives him godlike glory. /Aoclei^n Ippi^atioti Jy<^tem WE have spoken of the ancient works of irrigation. What does the present show? Famine stricken Indiacomes to mind. There, in the last thirty years, at a cost of three hundred and sixty millions of dollars,thirty-five million acres of land have been reclaimed from the desert waste, and, this to a large extent,lies under the very shadow of the Himalaya mountains, far from the sea coast. From the ocean to these artificialoases great lin

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