Sacramento Valley, California. 1907.

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Sacramento Valley, California. 1907.

" ... providing for co-operation between the United States Geological Survey and the State of California in gaging streams, surveying reservoir sites and canal locations for the conservation and the utilization of the flood or storm waters of the State ... bring together a synopsis of all the information obtainable bearing on the reclamation and irrigation of the Sacramento Valley."

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