Title |
History of public land law development |
Creator |
Gates, Paul Wallace, 1901-; United States; Public Land Law Review Commission |
Subject |
Public lands; History -- Sources |
Spatial Coverage |
United States |
OCR Text |
Show This volume, setting forth the history of public land law development, is presented to the interested public as a foundation stone for the entire study program of the Public Land Law Review Commission. (Originally published: Washington, D.C. : by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968) |
Publisher |
Washington, D.C. : Wm. W. Gaunt & Sons |
Contributors |
Swenson, Robert W. |
Date |
1987 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Digitization Specifications |
Pages were scanned at 400 ppi on Fujitsu fi-5650C sheetfed scanner as 8-bit grayscale or 24-bit RGB uncompressed TIFF images. For ContentDM access the images were resampled to 750 pixels wide and 120 dpi and saved as JPEG (level 8) in PhotoShop CS with Unsharp Mask of 100/.3. Foldout pages larger than 11" x 14" were captured using a BetterLight Super 8K-2 digital camera back on a 4x5 view camera (100mm Schneider APO lens). Oversize images were resampled to 1500 pixels wide. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) by ABBYY FineReader 7.0 with manual review. |
Resource Identifier |
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/wwdl-doc&CISOPTR=5226 |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
Western Waters Digital Library |
Rights Management |
Digital Image Copyright 2005, University of Utah. All Rights Reserved. |
Contributing Institution |
Georgetown University Law Library 111 G Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 |
Source Physical Dimensions |
xv, 828 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. |
Scanning Technician |
Backstage Library Works - 1180 S. 800 E. Orem, UT 84097. |
Call Number |
KF5605 .G3 1987r |
ARK |
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Setname |
wwdl_documents |
ID |
1135921 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jh3khj |
Title |
page 637 |
OCR Text |
Show RECLAMATION OF THE ARID LANDS 637 Reclaimed Lands As they had always done, ever since the passage of the Enabling Act for the admission of Ohio in 1802, western representatives looked to the Federal government for aid-this time for the development of the arid lands of the West through irrigation. Various proposals were considered such as (1) granting alternate sections of land to capitalists who would undertake a large-scale irrigation project with dams, reser- ciudes a picture of an irrigation canal cut out of solid limestone in 1861-62 that is still in use. In the agricultural volume of the Census of 1880 there is some attention to crops grown on irrigated land in California but no statistics. Bureau of Reclamation voirs, canals and lateral ditches; (2) the sale or grant of land up to 640 acres to persons who would conduct water to it; (3) the sale at low cost of large blocks of land to incorporated companies; and (4) donations to the semi-arid states to enable them to carry out irrigation projects at a time when few imagined the Federal government could be induced to do so. All but the first of these plans were to be tried, and in addition the Federal government undertook irrigation projects itself. S. S. Burdett, Commissioner of the General Land Office, maintained in his report for 1875 that the need for farm products in |
Format |
application/pdf |
Resource Identifier |
320947-UUM-HPL-c22_page 637.jpg |
Source |
Original book: History of public land law development / written for the Public Land Law Review Commission by Paul W. Gates, with a chapter by Robert W. Swenson |
Setname |
wwdl_documents |
ID |
1135729 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jh3khj/1135729 |