The Public Lands And Their Water Supply

Newell, Frederick Haynes

Published by USGS/GPO; Washington DC; 463--533 pp.; ; F-; nc/nd

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_____Complete report by the future head of the Bureau of Reclamation, extracted from the Sixteenth Annual Report of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-5: Part II: Papers of an Economic Character._____Bound into crimson cloth with leather spine and corners._____ With the ownership slug of pioneer Wichita newspaper publisher Victor Murdock on the spine heel. _____ Illustrated with a couple of full page black & white photos and several inter-text photos and diagrams. _____ Includes one multi-color, double-spread map: Relative Location of / Forests, Woodlands and Irrigated Areas / in the / Western Part of the United States._____ . _____ The large, 19 3/4 x 29", multi-color folding map of the public lands of the United States, originally in a pocket, is now bound in._____ In various colors shows: Lands Disposed of (the mid-west and large parts of the Pacific coast), Vacant Lands (most of the land between Kansas and California), Forest Reservations, Indian Lands, Wagon and Railroad Grants (those wonderful checkerboard snakes extending east to west) and Lands Never Owned by National Government (the East Coast and Texas). _____ The large map has a tear at the mounting stub._____ The leather is solid, with light wear to the corners. Seller Inventory # 26375

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Public Lands And Their Water Supply

Publisher: USGS/GPO; Washington DC; 463--533 pp.; ; F-; nc/nd

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition