Report of Gen. G. M. Dodge, Chief Engineer

Report of Gen. G. M. Dodge, Chief Engineer PDF

Author: Grenville Mellen Dodge

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780266239246

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Excerpt from Report of Gen. G. M. Dodge, Chief Engineer: 1874 Sir - The charter of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company as granted by the United States, provides for the construction of a continuous railroad and telegraph line from Shreveport, Louisiana, by Marshall, Harrison County, Texas, thence by the most direct and eligible route, to be determined by the Company, near the thirty-second parallel of north latitude to a point at or near El Paso, thence by the most direct and' eligible route, to be selected by said Company, through New Mexico and Arizona to a point on the Rio Colorado, at or near the south-eastern boundary of the State of California. Thence by the most direct and eligible route to San Diego, California, to ship's channel in the State of California, pursuing in the location thereof, as near as may be practicable, the thirty second parallel of north latitude. This charter also provides for the construction of a rail road from Fort Yuma to San Francisco, not limiting us from taking the most economical advantages of the topography of the county, in leaving our main line. 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.

Bitter Waters

Bitter Waters PDF

Author: Patrick Dearen

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0806154616

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Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first book-length study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes.

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