Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Control of irrigation by others than the United States unwise. - (a) By states. - (1) River systems extend over several states. - (2) The one nearest the head could steal all the water: Powell, 221. - (b) By individual farmers. - It would be on too small a scale to be effective except in a few places: Powell, 237. - (c) By corporations. - (1) It leaves a great class of farmers at the mercy of the water companies. - (2) It would lead to the creation of large estates and the crushing out of small holders. - (3) It would lead to popular hatred...
...Irrigation to be successful must be by the United States: Sec. Noble's Report, 1890, 641. - (a) It must be on a very large scale: Powell, 48. - (b) Return from the investment, although sure, is very slow at first: Wilson, 410-18. - (c) It has to wait for immigration to fill up the irrigated land: Wilson...
...There are many obstacles to irrigation on a large scale. - (a) Insufficiency of water supply. - (b) Danger from large reservoirs. - (c) Destructive alkaline deposits...
...Conference has also resulted in much practical good work of a non-sectarian kind, such as visiting the poor, etc. A Church Congress has been formed in Great Britain to carry on this work on a larger scale. Another result has been the united action of all the English churches at a recent election in securing the use of the bible in the English common schools...
...abrupt reduction, - on the contrary, they have been still further diminished by occasional annual deficits in excess of annual surplusses. It is impossible for the Corporation to repeat that operation. The whole income of the University from invested funds and from tuition-fees is needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure for salaries, repairs and improvements, general expenses, and the various useful objects to which the incomes of special funds are devoted. Under these circumstances, in the absence of any single benefactor who desires to erect a suitable reading-room and stack, is it not time that the whole...