Author : United States. Government Office
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230106526
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Book Synopsis Congressional Serial Set Volume 5746 by : United States. Government Office
Download or read book Congressional Serial Set Volume 5746 written by United States. Government Office and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...the field. He and Mr. Mendenhall spent the month of May with M. R. Campbell, of the geologic branch, and H. F. Robinson, of the Indian Service, superintendent of irrigation for Arizona and New Mexico, visiting the reservations and determining the fields to be specially investigated and the best methods of carrying out the work. Professor Gregory will complete his researches in August or September and will prepare a final report some time thereafter, the agreement being that preliminary reports shall be sent to the Office of Indian Affairs from the field immediately after the completion of each important unit in the problem. INVESTIGATIONS OF THE QUALITY OF WATER. The water resources are not determined on the completion of studies concerning the amount of water. A complete inventory, adaptable for use, requires that the quality of the waters also be considered. No investigations of this sort have been made during the past year, except those in cooperation with the State of California. In previous years a large amount of data had been accumulated, and the effort of the past year has been concentrated on the compilation and assembling of these data and the making of proper deductions for reports. These reports relating to the quality of water in various parts of the country and its industrial usefulness are in preparation and will be published at an early date. DEBRIS INVESTIGATION. The investigation of problems connected with the overloading of California rivers by mining debris was continued under the charge of G. K. Gilbert. The work included additional measurements of pits excavated by hydraulic mining and additional studies of the contributions to the detrital load of streams through the cultivation of the soil and the grading and use...