The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond

Book Cliffs, bounding the plain on the north, which will bring under

cultivation thirty thousand acres of valley heretofore unwatered, and may be extended when the population demands. This ditch comes out twelve miles above town. It is fifty feet wide across the top, and is thirty-five feet at the bottom; the depth is five feet, and it delivers seven hundred cubic feet of water each...