Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches)
Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Typical Longleaf Pine of the Texas-Louisiana Region
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Cypress Swamp Near Jefferson—Bulletin No. 47 in Bureau of Forestry
Long Train at the Deweyville Plant of the Sabine Tram Company Courtesy of C. E. Walden
Transporting Longleaf Yellow Pine Logs by Water in Southeast Texas Courtesy of the Sabine Tram Company
TURNING THE WATERS 205 considerable. A good many hundreds of acres are being irrigated, and thousands of cattle are being watered fromthese wells. Their permanent possibilities form one of themost interesting subjects for speculation in Texas at thepresent time. The Artesian Belt is another interesting region, south and southwest of San Antonio, to which the above remarks also apply. The laws relating to irrigation are amusing, irritating, incomplete, and imperfect. The code handed down by Saxon forefathers didn't cover irrigation; Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall were silent on this topic. Even that palladium of our liberties, trial by jury, doesn't seem to get anywhere, though proper irrigation of a jury has oftenbrought peculiar result

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