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Excerpt from Irrigation in the Rocky Mountain States
If he is a practical farmer he has been accustomed to consider the fertility of the soil, its drainage, the proximity to market, and the social advantages of a community the leading factors in making a location desirable but when he casts his lot in an irrigated district he finds that all the unirrigated land looks alike and all apparently worthless. He frequently finds that lands conveniently located, close to market, and with a contour and slope suited to irrigation, are yet unoccupied and for sale at small price. If he seeks for the cause from a disinterested source he will probably learn that it is lack of a water right - that other lands absorbed the stream before ditches to water the land in question were built, and that when streams run low no water is left for its use. If he is not so informed at the outset, he may learn of this through unhappy experience. The significance of a water right, and the importance of having both an adequate supply and adequate provision for its just distribution, are matters which the home seeker is most apt to overlook, as they were the last things to be properly appreciated by the early settlers. 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.
