Excerpt from Irrigation in the United States
Irrigation as it is related to the utilization of some of the great untouched resources of the United States is here discussed, and especial attention is devoted to the opportunities for making homes upon the vast extent of vacant public lands now waste and desolate. A somewhat elementary and popular description of irrigation and of the devices for obtaining and distributing water is given, including details of interest to persons who are beginning to give attention to the subject. More space is devoted to the crude, but effective, home-made contrivances than to the elaborate or expensive machinery purchased from manufacturers, for the success of irrigation depends most largely upon the rough-and-ready ingenuity of the first settlers in a new country in adapting their ways to the environment.
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