Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide for 1910 with Map Page: 90
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0S THE TEXAS ALMANAC.
Austin Bayou and Bastrop Bayou, serving 3,500 acres. Bastrop County
has one plant on the Colorado River, feeding 200 acres. Comal County
has two plants on streams, serving 300 acres. Crane County will have
a large irrigating plant soon, a charter having been secured for a canal
from the Pecos River. Coke County has nine small plants along the
Colorado River, serving 500 acres. Coryell has only one irrigator to date,
on the Leon River, feeding 50 acres. Caldwell County has a total of
only 20 acres under ditch by small farming plants. Callahan County
has one plant on the Pecan River, serving 100 acres, and a number of
small plants supplied by wells. Concho County has one plant on the
Concho River, feeding 100 acres. Coleman County has a few small
plants. Dimmitt County has some large irrigators and several small
ones; they are supplied mainly by wells, feeding 2,500 acres of land.
Prio County has eighteen irrigators fed by artesian wells, serving 300
acres. Gonzales County has a number of small garden irrigators fed
by wells. Guadalupe County has one small plant on the -Guadalupe
River. Goliad County has two plants, supplied by wells, serving '150
acres. Hemphill County has several small plants, fed by artesian wells,
serving about 100 acres. Hays County has ten plants, with 1,560 acres
under ditch; they are supplied by the San Marcos River and deep wells.
Karnes County has two small plants on the river. Kinney County has
ten small plants along the streams, feeding 1,571 acres. Kimble County
ras three large irrigators and numerous small ones along the Llano
River and tributary creeks, serving 2,000 acres. Loving County has a
project under way which will give it a canal from the Pecos River ca-
pable of watering 2,000 acres; as the county develops this will be ex-
tended. Lampasas County has a small plant watering 150 acres. Mc-
Mullen County has two small Irrigators. McLennan-County has a total
of about 300 acres of truck and fruit under.irrigation, the water supply
coming from wells. Maverick County has five plants along the Rio
Grande River, which serve 2,000 acres. Mills County has three irrigators
on the Colorado and Pecan Rivers, watering 950 acres. Nueces County
has 25 plants supplied by wells and serving 2,000 acres. In Reagan
County all farmers have abundant water supplies in their wells, and
most of them have small irrigating plants for serving their gardens and
truck patches. San Saba County has a large number of small plants
along the streams, serving' a total of 3,040 acres. Sterling County has
four plants on the Concho River, watering 290 acres. Somervell County
has no large irrigators, but many farmers water their gardens and
trdck farms from wells. Starr County has four irrigators along the
Rio Grande, serving 300 acres. Travis County has some small plants
along the streams, watering abott 250 acres in all. Uvalde County has
3,000 acres under ditch; 180 wells and six ditches are in use. Van Zandt
County has some small irrigators, supplied by wells, watering about 100
acres. Webb County has 2,000 acres under ditch, which are served by 20
plants stationed on the Rio Grande River. Wichita County has a large
lake which supplies an immense irrigator, serving 4,000 acres of farming
land. Wilson County has one plant on the San Antonio River, watering
80 acres. Williamson County has three deep-well plants, watering 40
acres. Yoakum County has no extensive irrigating plants, but truck
gardens to the extent of some 40 acres are irrigated from wells. Zavalla
County, with 2,350 acres under ditch, has two plants on the river and
a number of small ones from wells.
DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION.
In irrigation sections of South Texas, as elsewhere in the United
States, drainage and irrigation go together. It has been the history of
irrigation the world over that when not accompanied by drainage the
land either sours, becomes salty or alkali. Within the last two years
eight, drainage districts have organized and issued bonds in the total
sum of $714,000. A number of other districts have been organized, but
have not progressed far enough in the work to present their bonds to the
Attorney General for approval. The eight districts, the bonds of which
have been approved, cover a total of about 350,000 acres, although statis-
tics as to the exact acreage are not )n file at Austin. The districts and
amounts of bond issue now of record are as follows:
Grand Falls, Ward County, drainage district.................... $33,000
Velasco, Brazoria County, drainage district. .................. 50,000
Barstow, Ward County, drainage district ....................... 50,000
Ellis County drainage district ................................. 35,000
Harris County drainage district No. 1 ......... ............... 60,000
Angleton, Brazoria County, drainage district ...... ........... 120,000
Galveston County drainage district No. 1 ....................... 116,000
Matagorda County drainage district No. 1 ...................... 250,000
Total ........................ .............................$714,000
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Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide for 1910 with Map, book, January 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123780/m1/92/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.