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176 THE TEXAS ALMANAC.
and county-line districts and a few other AREA OF OVERFLOW BOTTOM LANDS.
matters, was very smiliar to the act of
1915. Districts may choose either sys- There are about 3,000,000 acres of river
tern of taxation, ad valorem or assessed bottom lands subject to overflow in Texas,
benefits. The State Reclamation Engineer according to the estimates of the State
is now required not only to pass on all Reclamation Engineer. Of this amount he
levee plans, district and other, but is estimates that about 60 per cent, or 1,800,-
given extensive powers of supervision 000 acres, are susceptible of profitable re-
over construction work. covery through levee construction.
Levee Districts of Texas.
DISTRICTS ORGANIZED PRIOR TO ACT OF 1915.
Districts organized prior to the passage of the levee improvement district act of 1915. the first law
requiring approval of plans by the State Reclamation Engineer:
District-- Stream. Area Bonds. Miles
(acres). levee. .
BowiN Co. Drainage and Levee Dist. No. 1. .1913 Red River........ 11,000.00 $50.000 8.86 6
Brazos Co. Improvement Dist. No. 1........1909 Brazos .......... 7,458.65 59.000 13.07 7
*Burleson Co. Improvement Dist. No. 1....1909 Brazos .......... 50.649.00 285,320 27.07 10
Burleson Co. Improvement Dist. No. 2.....1911 Brazos .......... 2,000.00 4,439 2.16
*Ellis Co. Drainage Dist. No. 1............1909 Chambers Creek.. 5,936.00 307,000 17.78 15
*Kaufman Co. Improvement Dist. No. 1... .1914 Trinity .......... 9,042.00 355,000 20.13 18
Liberty Co. Improvement Dist. No. 1..... .1913 Trinity .,..... 2,775 00 6,000 7.90- 4
Hefley Improvement Dist. of Milam Co...1910 Little ........... 3,864.00 18,500 5.50 9
*Fort Worth Improvement Dist. of Tarrant
County .......rovement D . o .1909 Trinity ......... 3,000.00 335,000 12 31 11
Washington Co. Improvement Dist. No. 1..1910 Brazos ......... 8,411.60 57,000 16.00 8
Total .................................................104,136.25 $1,477,259 130.78
*Have had plans for supplemental work approved since 1915.
DISTRICTS ORGANIZED UNDER THE ACT OF 1915 OR LATER ACTS.
List includes all plans approved to end of fiscal year Aug. 31. 1926. The mark * indicates that the
bonds have not yet been issued and therefore the levees have not yet been built. The mark t indicates that
part of the bonds have not yet been issued.
Distrit- Stream. res. Bonds. levee.
Andersen County:
No. 1 ...................1916 Trinity ...................... 2,574.00 ;$62,500 5 53 9No. 2................1918
Bowie County:
No. 2............ ...1919
Collin County:
No. 1 ..................1916
No. 3...................1921
Dallas County:
No. 1 ..................1916
No. 2................. 1917
No. 3 ....................1916
Bois d'Arc Island........1918
No. 5................1919
No. 6..... ..............1919
No. 7 ...............1920
No. 8...................191 9
No. 9 ..................1923
No. 12.................1922
No. 13.................1924
Delta County:
Delta-HopkinsNo. 1......1918
No. 2............... 1919
No. 4..................1919
No. 7 ..................1920
No. 8.................. 1920
Ellis County:.
No. 2...................1915
No. 3...................1916
No. 4...................1916
No 5.................. 1916
No. 6 ..................1917
No. 8 ... ......... .....1917
No. 9 ............1918
**No. 10 & Navarro Co.
No. 3 ...............1918
"No. 11...............1923
Pranklhn County:
No. 1................1917
Fort Bend County:
**No. 1.................1920Trinity . ...................... 5,740.57
Sulphur River................. 4,341.60
Pilot Grove Creek.............. 3,500.00
Pilot Grove Ofr. and E. Fork.. 6,411.02Trinity ................. ...
Trinity ........................
Trinity....................
Trinity....................
Trinity ....... .............
East Fork Trnnity .............
Elm Fork Trinity ............
Mountain Creek................
Rowlett Creek..................
Trinity ....................
Rowlett Creek..............
N. & S. Sulphur ...............
S Sulphur .... .............
S. Sulphur ....................
S. Sulphur .................
Middle Sulphur .................
Trinity ....................
Trinity . ............
Waxahachie Creek ...........
Waxahachie Creek.............
Chambers Creek ..............
Onion Creek................
Waxahachie. Creek..............3,366.07
4,724.00
3,650.00
17,787:00
5,038.00
5,750.00
1,800 00
1,353.10
2,250.00
140.08
625.80
16,596.00
3,200.00
700.00
1,000.00
1,700.00
12,755.00
8,229.00
900.00
496.00
257.00
1,000.00
730.60Trinity ...................... 1,847.00
Chambers Creek ............... 1,504.00
Sulphur ....................... 4,500.00
Brazos ............. ....... 7,725.00200,000 6.90 18
170,000 9.03 14
170,500 8.50 9
*300,000 12.06 16
t222,000 9.58 15
177,000 8.60 17
-274,000 9.75 14
664,700 16 02 20
228,000 8.69 20
288,000 12.82 14
*115,000 4.17 16
71,000 4.55 12
55,000 7.86 10
7,400 .20 14
20,000 2.40 10
607,000 16.28 15
120,000 8.05 14
*32,600 2.33 12
*50,000 3.30 16
77,000 6.44 12
659,950 16.8 16
455,000 15.04 18
25,000 5.45 9
10,000 289 8
17;500 1.58 12
62,500 9 43 10
55,000 2.96 13
204,000 . 4.17 19
52,000 2 74 18
89,000 10 00 12
178,049 10.26 10
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