Excerpt from Report on Agriculture by Irrigation, Vol. 1: In the Western Part of the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890 In the first, or arid region, are embraced part or the whole of certain states and territories, namely: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. In the subhumid region are embraced parts of certain states, namely: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas. The following condensed tables present the number of persons who irrigate their farms, aggregating 52, 584; the acres irrigated, aggregating 416; the average size of irrigated farms for the regions treated, 68 acres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.