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Mar 1910
The Redemption of the Great Valley of California
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Volume 66, Issue 1
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The Great Valley of California, as Nature built it, by filling an inland sea with debris from the hills, seemed capable of feeding the world with wheat fifty years ago, when men were reaping from its surface the cargoes for those “swift shuttles of an Empire's loom,” the “Gypsies of the Horn.” Fifty years of mishandling natural riches and spurning natural laws have so far injured it that now it may be said, in an economical or engineering sense, the Great Valley is lost to the world. The historic wheat fields have deteriorated until they are no longer of appreciable value to the State.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 66 • Issue 1 • March 1910
Pages: 229 - 245
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© 1910 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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A. D. Foote, M.ASCE
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