Download or read book Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California written by Railroad Commission of the State of California and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California written by Railroad Commission of the State of California and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decisions written by California Public Utilities Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Download or read book Ruling the Waters written by Douglas R. Littlefield and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Europeans first arrived at what is now California’s San Joaquin Valley, they found a vast landscape of wetlands, small ponds, riparian forests, and grasslands surrounding three large swampland lakes. What greets a visitor to the region today is a dramatically different view of mile after mile of row crops, vineyards, orchards, and grazing acreage—some of the most fertile and productive agricultural land in the world. This remarkable transformation, with its enduring consequences, is at the center of Ruling the Waters, a legal, social, and environmental history of how western water law shaped, and was shaped by, the subjugation of the largest freshwater wetlands wildlife habitat in the West. At the heart of efforts to wrest arable land from the region was the Kern River, which rises in the Sierra Nevada and carries snowmelt to what was once a great network of lakes, sloughs, and marshes at the southern end of California’s Central Valley. In Ruling the Waters Douglas R. Littlefield describes how, over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneers and entrepreneurs diverted water out of this network of waterways to extract gold in the mountains and irrigate farms lower down the river, and how the law was made to accommodate these practices. Struggles over the Kern River’s water established one of the most important concepts in water law in some parts of the United States—that prior appropriation, dependent on the chronological order of diversions from waterways, could legally coexist with riparian rights, which restrict water usage to landownership directly next to a river or stream. Littlefield traces this concept to the 1886 California Supreme Court case of Lux v. Haggin—which pitted the giant farming and cattle company of Miller & Lux against a prominent land baron, James B. Haggin—and shows how the lawsuit profoundly shaped future waters issues, which in turn influenced water laws in other western states that were grappling with similar questions. Far from a dry legal history, Ruling the Waters tells a story with world-wide historical environmental ramifications, a tale of competing personalities and values and visions that forever changed both the economy and the ecology of the American West.
Download or read book The Ditches of Nevada City written by Dom Lindars and published by Nevada City History. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the history of Nevada City, California, through the eyes of the men that built it. For its first 100 years, everything in Nevada City revolved around gold. But this is not another book about finding gold. To get gold, you needed water — to pan for it, to wash it in a sluice, to blast away a hillside with an immense water cannon, or to turn the water wheel of a quartz-ore stamp mill. This book instead asks: How did they get the water? It reveals the engineering marvels that brought water to Nevada City’s dry hills from tens of miles away. But what if all the water in every ravine, creek and valley around Nevada City was controlled by just three men? Well, for three decades, every miner, farmer or business could only buy water from the powerful South Yuba Canal Company. What would happen if you got into an argument with them? Or couldn’t afford to pay their water bill? Or even dared to compete with them? The book traces the ingenuity and hard work of the town’s miners and ditch builders, highlighting in detail the history and origins of various local neighborhoods, including Nevada City itself, Hirschman's Pond, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Deer Creek, Scotts Flat, Manzanita Diggings, Gold Flat and various mining camps along Washington Ridge. This vivid portrayal follows the area’s evolution from the chaos of thousands of miners scratching out a living in clusters of muddy tents to a genteel town with hotels, stores, banks, theaters and libraries. What began as a search to uncover a sprawling network of old ditches, turned into a collection of never-before-told stories of the gold miners, the ruthless and greedy ditch company, and the rivals that it crushed. The domineering ditch company later enabled the next generation of monopoly to provide electrical power. The story of PG&E also started in Nevada City. This, in turn, led to the now more forward-looking stewardship of the Nevada Irrigation District. The unique format of this book blends beautiful archival images with more than 35 in-depth biographies of key figures in Nevada City. This 884 page hardcover book includes over 600 photos and illustrations, including 200 historic photographs and 75 hand-crafted maps based on modern lidar technology that reveal the locations of the old mining ditches, flumes, mines and tunnels.
Download or read book Journals of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Check list of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Division of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Legislature of the State of California written by California and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of the Senate During the Session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 2456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Grants Mining Districts of the Western United States written by Jerry Grant and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides information on where gold, and silver were mined in the Western United States. The book provides various map references locating the mineral sources, the amount that was mined from each district, what minerals are associated with that district and any history on that district.
Download or read book Rate Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly List of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Division of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 2464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers written by American Society of Mechanical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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