Excerpt from Manual of the United States Reclamation Service: Edition of 1913 The results Of the second conference of reclamation engineers were published in Water Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 146. These related to the meeting at El Paso, Texas, November 14-18, 1904, and adjournment to Washington, D. C., January 9-14, 1905. The results of later conferences were embodied in typewritten or other reports not printed. Previous to 1907, the then Chief Engineer brought together for suggestion and guidance all of the earlier material and also manuals available from various bureaus of the Government, from State surveys, and from other organizations. Particular attention was given to the material obtained from the Corps of Engineers, United States Army. The various instructions and orders were studied with reference to their applicability to the' work in hand. It was found, however, after prolonged study of these that most of them were based upon special statutes or upon conditions such that they could not be used as a basis for instructions in the Reclamation Service, or at least without radical changes. 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.