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Description Umax Powerlook 2100XL, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 12,158,212 bytes C. W. CROUSE--C. W. Crouse was the first Indian agent to suggest a reservoir on the Gila River as a means of providing the Pimas with their proper share of water. In his report for 1890 Mr. Crouse said: "There is not an acre of the four reservations of this agency that will produce any kind of cereal without irrigation. The soil is rich, but nothing grows on it naturally except mesquite, cottonwood, paloverde, a variety of cacti, and stunted shrubbery. 'Water is king.' It is water and...
Identifier nawr42-51 http://server16127.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/nawr,849
Source From microform, 68th Congress, 1st Session, House, Committee Print. Pima Indians and the San Carlos Irrigation Project.; CIS H3843
Language English

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