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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assing, and irrigation farming on the lower RioGrande is now settling down to a steady and reasonablyprofitable course. The lower Rio Grande irrigation boom was of consider-able magnitude. Several of the largest plants in the worldwere built, feeding hundreds of miles of canals and laterals;some $15,000,000 was spent in development, and twenty-five thousand white people moved in. The Rio Grandewas not able to supply all the needed water; marketingdifficulties, frost, and ignorance led to many losses. Irriga-tion companies are being taken over by public drainagedistricts at Harlingen and Donna. A solid future existsbased more on field crops and stock and less on sensationaltruck raising than was the iridescent boom. Near Pecos City are two shallow water belts: from Here-ford in the southwestern Panhandle southward and east-ward to Seminole, Midland, Plainview, and Lubbock liesthe great shallow well-irrigable region. How much waterthese wells can supply permanently is unknown, but it is
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