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ILLUSTRATIONS.

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  • PLATE
    • I. View of run-off of San Marcos spring...9
    • II. View of portion of water wheel, showing buckets raising water...38
    • III. View of Austin dam and power house...40
    • IV. View of San Antonio River at Mill bridge...42
    • V. View of old stone aqueduct carrying Espada ditch across Piedras Creek...44
    • VI. View of artesian wells at San Antonio city waterworks...46
    • VII.
      • A. View of dam supplying Madre ditch at Del Rio...56
      • B. View of dam for San Felipe ditch at Del Rio...56
    • VIII. View of flume across Pecos River...62
    • IX. View of Pecos Canyon at Southern Pacific Railway bridge...64
    • X. View of wing dam of El Paso Irrigation Company, looking upstream...66
  • FIG.
    • 1. Index map of Texas...22
    • 2. Diagrams of mean monthly rainfall at six stations...23
    • 3. Map of drainage basin of Wichita River...30
    • 4. Water wheel and wing dam turning current against wheel...38
    • 5. Map of ditches and artesian wells at San Antonio...42
    • 6. Mission ditches below San Antonio...44
    • 7. View of flume on Trueheart ditch...47
    • 8. View of irrigation tank at Beeville experiment station...49
    • 9. Map of the proposed Caimanche reservoir and canals...52
    • 10. Map of the proposed Nueces reservoir and canal...53
    • 11. Pump and flume on Nueces River...55
    • 12. Map showing location of Margueretta Canal...62

 

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