There are said to be fifteen or twenty million acres of land in the West, at present arid, for whose reclamation water is available, if properly conserved.
In 1849 the Great Central (then the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire) railway initiated a scheme of reclamation and dock-construction.
Mr. Schoolcraft, whose reclamation was made in a letter to George H.
For it seems that Humboldt thought Pike had done so, and he had just previously so expressed himself in a reclamation in Le Moniteur.
Leaving out his interests in the several Western reclamation projects (which were still assessing heavily), he was a ruined man.
And in the meantime he played small hands, investing in several arid-lands reclamation projects and keeping his eyes open for the big chance when it should come along.
The National Reclamation Homestead Law, requiring five years' residence and cultivation by the settler on the land irrigated by the Government, and payment by him to the Government of the cost of the reclamation.
The Reclamation Service, in compliance with that act, filed upon the waters of Columbia River at Priest Rapids, and, in one particular year, filed an express relinquishment and abandonment of that project.
The National Board of Trade was also a pioneer in advocating the reclamation of arid lands and the drainage of swamp and overflow lands and practical reforestation, and adopted resolutions urging legislation to this end.
We are also to consider the reclamationof swamp lands, the preservation of soil, and the general use of water, which is today the Nation's greatest asset.
You say, Give to the Federal Government the right to the water-powers of the State and forever prevent the further reclamation of our land?
Would you take the water away and stop the reclamationof the arid West?
Here the tears came into the old criminal's eyes, and it was very evident that there was still a soft place in his heart, showing a sign of reclamation in spite of his convict life.
They also built the walls of the reclamation works along the sea front, now known as Collyer Quay, and above referred to, and the river wall at Campong Malacca.
State, in 1876, is for the treatment of nervous and mental diseases, and for the reclamation of inebriates and opium-eaters.
Uncle Sam is paying special attention to the western water-sheds which supply reclamation and irrigation projects.
And then I was sorry that the house in Versailles is soon to be closed and Miss Lord to return to southern France and her reclamation work.
Vera has told me she expects to remain with Miss Lord in France and return with her to thereclamation work.
Aunt Patricia will soon return to the devastated French country to continue the reclamation work there.
I do not like even to confess to you how I shall regret having to return to the old struggle when the home here is closed and Miss Lord goes back to the devastated French country to continue the reclamation work there.
My name is Bettina Graham; my father is Senator Graham of Washington and I have been in France for some time helping with the reclamation work.
At the same time all the French claims upon the United States, from the time of our revolution, of which two (those of the heirs of Beaumarchais and of the Count Rochambeau) had been a subject of reclamation for forty years, were satisfied.
The treaty was concluded in March, 1830, and extended to a complete settlement of all questions of reclamation on both sides.
Apart from the buildings, the mere work of reclamation alone is generally estimated to have cost L20 an acre, and in another part of the same estates an equally extensive piece of reclamation is said to have cost L30 an acre.
Every once in a while the question of coast reclamation comes up for discussion, but I had never heard any man suggest coast reclamation as a means of giving the unemployed relief.
Siyay nagpaluyu sa kaugmáran sa pruyiktu sa riklamasiyun, He was behind the development of the reclamation project.
Nagdyuy rayding mi didtu sa riklimisyun, We went for a ride in the reclamation area.
There is, undoubtedly, some danger that, in making the Indian history and languages a topic of investigation, the great practicable objects of their reclamation may be overlooked.
It proposes some definite means of action for furthering their moral instruction, and reclamation from the evils of intemperance and the principles of war, and to subserve the general purposes of a society of moral inquiry.
The initial steps were taken for forming an association of persons interested in the cause of the reclamation of the Indians, to be known under the name of the Algic Society.
They were recognized subjects of reclamation in forming and executing treaties.
Reclamation of him could be lawfully made, and therefore must be enforced.
The land is divided into square fields of from fifteen to twenty acres by high stone walls, built of granite boulders raised in the prison quarries or from the land as the work of reclamation proceeds.
Now, in these days of reclamation and reconstruction, it is high time to pay more attention to the Farm by the Side of the Road.
In fact, it is very doubtful if the reclamation of the great arid and semiarid regions of the world would have been possible a few decades ago, before the invention and introduction of labor-saving farm machinery.
This Congress was made notable by the number of foreign delegates who had been sent by their respective countries to investigate the methods pursued in America for the reclamation of the arid districts.
What the future will show in the reclamationof these deserts, without irrigation, is yet conjectural.
The Dry-farming Congress has made itself one of the most important factors in the development of methods for the reclamation of the desert.
This is one of the interesting subjects yet to be investigated by those who are engaged in the reclamation of dry-farm districts.
If any excuse were needed for the lively interest taken in the subject of dry-farming, it is amply furnished by these figures showing the vast extent of the country interested in the reclamation of land by the methods of dry-farming.
A reclamation of the great mortar in St. James’s Park, or of the throne of the king of Ceylon, would have just as much appearance of fairness as that of Apollo by the Pope, and Venus by the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
We're just at the most crucial point with our reclamation project, over here on the flat.
A kindred association to that, the province of which is the better government of the beggars of London, is that which devotes its energies to the reclamation of returned convicts.
