t would make a block about 1,000 d may be subdivided again into h and south from the British the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, dth to the one hundred and fifth sion may be broadly declared to om 1,500 to 5,000 feet, though it It is but sparcely sup e area. fed from mountain sources; the here below a reliable amount for this precipitation will not, under per annum in the eastern part, 12 and 15 inches per annum. his area the rain-fall will somecreasing until, on the northwest, most favorable seasons. In the age is more evenly maintained. half of Kansas and Nebraska, plains region) of Colorado, the alf of Wyoming Territory, and tory and Texas, with about one. xico. It is drained by a number ace, and is bounded on the eas Es afluents, and by the Pecos and are undoubtedly arid and de Their extent is a matter yet enterprises projected and in Even the mountain plateaus would seem to be undoubtedly in providing for cattle, but, 1 culture, they may be made th and otherwise favorably mod The defined outlines of this section, of which Utah and it are the dominating physical plateau region, which occupie and Northern Arizona; the b the eastern flank and ranges the table-lands of southern formed on the north by the C in eastern Oregon, Idaho, and Arid and desert as this st be, it will be found on examin agricultural uses, and also to supplies of water as, proper under the wise and conserva Governments, will be found of pastoral uses; (2) of more li agricultural purposes; and ( y disappears in a few days. The lows periodically, and melts deep spring begins in February, and his season rain falls in sufficient insure good crops. The average the year does not average more e River it is not more than 15 rthward. ea, where the Colorado plateau olorado, and Rio Grande, forming nd New Mexico, there has already for cattle, and in several extended , Rio Verde, Salt, Colorado, Chivers, almost enough to meet the l demands has been turned to our whole intra-mountain region ned, at least 60 per cent. affords g-places, though often at long inlimitations, which are rapidly beeafter largely disappear as more subject. The facts gathered from e are the possibilities of improverate estimate can be made as to NOULL སཨསསཔ་ ཨuང་ སIIIམངོས, IS gation. Fruit growers and wheat fa testimony that after irrigatio given supply of water suffices nation being that when water of it sinks deep into the dr seepage; whereas, when the lands adjoining those under water absorbed in excess of comparatively small. How m soil may have on the atmosph increase of evaporation due t of trees and plants must ultin regard. The full industrial use of wa erned by the larger topograph precipitation seldom exceeds portion of the State falls beld tion in rain-fall is illustrated the range of three years was mento the range of seventeen at Millerton, six years, from 9. years, from 11.6 inches to 20 inches to 34.2 inches; at Mo Pine, cedar, and fir forests cover aluable trees, both on the mountreme southeastern portion of the 140 miles long by 70 miles wide, nland sea. Another great basin, of the Colorado Desert, extends he surface of which is cut up by - multitude of ridges and is intervalleys of fertile soil, comprising ta Clara, Sonoma, Napa, and Russ small rivers. In the central porquin, each in its meanderings about navigable streams in the State. to the Sacramento flow the Pitt, es, and Mokelumne Rivers. Into s, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced, re Lake flow the Kings, Kameah, ern Lake the Kern River. All of 1 an average length of about 120 the steep and rugged mountains, r. After reaching the plain their low, fringed with oak, sycamore, |