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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Courtesy of the Dallas News The Trinity River at Lock and Dam No. 1 about Eighteen Miles BelowDallas Which Is After Deep Water via the Trinity and Congress
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Courtesy of the Dallas News A View of the Trinity River Near Dallas at Flood Time. A Texas andPacific Trestle Has Been Washed Down THE CLIMATE 83 of products but small in acreage compared with the totalarea. As a matter of fact, the story of the underground watersin many places is going to be the story of free grass overagain. In free grass days, a bunch of cattle could be driveninto a country already occupied by all the cattle it couldcarry, and the result was starvation. Nowadays a wellmay be drilled where other wells are already using all theavailable water, and the result is a lowering of the artesianpressure, or of the water level, as the case may be. Thelaw in regard to riparian rights is sufficiently confused, butthe law governing the sinking of wells has yet to be made.You can take all of a mans underground water away fromhim if you go deep enough to tap his supply. Under-ground oil is like underground water, and to prevent theother fellow from getting all of it the derricks o

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