Image: Deweyville Plant of Sabine Tram Company in Book of Texas (1916) (14770388191)

Description: 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Typical Longleaf Pine of the Texas-Louisiana Region Text Appearing After Image: Cypress Swamp Near Jefferson—Bulletin No. 47 in Bureau of Forestry Long Train at the Deweyville Plant of the Sabine Tram Company Courtesy of C. E. Walden Transporting Longleaf Yellow Pine Logs by Water in Southeast Texas Courtesy of the Sabine Tram Company TURNING THE WATERS 205 considerable. A good many hundreds of acres are being irrigated, and thousands of cattle are being watered fromthese wells. Their permanent possibilities form one of themost interesting subjects for speculation in Texas at thepresent time. The Artesian Belt is another interesting region, south and southwest of San Antonio, to which the above remarks also apply. The laws relating to irrigation are amusing, irritating, incomplete, and imperfect. The code handed down by Saxon forefathers didn't cover irrigation; Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall were silent on this topic. Even that palladium of our liberties, trial by jury, doesn't seem to get anywhere, though proper irrigation of a jury has oftenbrought peculiar result Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Deweyville Plant of Sabine Tram Company in Book of Texas (1916) (14770388191)
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Author: Photograph: Courtesy of C. E. Walden. Book: Harry Yandell, 1869-1937; Courtesy of C. E. Walden Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
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