Scribner´s Magazine, Vol. 7
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Excerpt from Scribner´s Magazine, Vol. 7: Published Monthly With Illustrayions; January June The one-hundredth meridian cuts into two parts Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Indian Territory, and Texas. Somewhere in the western half of these States there runs an irregular, shifting line, across which the unaided natural rainfall is not sufficient to raise a crop every year. To the west of this line lie about one million two hundred thousand square miles of land, over two-fifths of the entire United States. Of course, this vast territory is not all arid. One block of magnificent land, including northern California, western Oregon and Washington, has an ample rainfall. And scattered everywhere, on rich bottom-lands close to rivers, on high mesas partly covered with forests, or in narrow mountain-valleys, lie many farms which depend for water on the rainfall and the natural humidity of the soil. Nevertheless this great territory is properly called the arid region of the United States. The annual rainfall is not only small, ranging from about twenty inches in the north to a little over two inches in southwestern Arizona, but is exceedingly variable. Signal-service reports that show a rainfall of forty inches in one year will show perhaps not more than ten inches the following year. The greater part of the rain falls at one time, in the winter, when it cannot be used. A large portion of the country is over-drained. The streams do not flow on the surface of the ground, but have cut their way deep into the bed-rock - in the case of some of the larger rivers, like the Colorado, thousands of feet. The country is completely overlaid with a net-work of these artificial drains. Whenever a heavy rain happens to fall in summer the water at once rushes off the thin soil into these washes or canons, which for a few hours or days are raging torrents, but before a week is past are entirely dry. The water that has fallen, perhaps several inches, has disappeared without doing the slightest good to the soil. 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.
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