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Excerpt from The Reclamation Program, 1948-54 The continental United States has a land area of about acres. More than half the area acres - is in 17 1 of the 22 States west of the Mississippi River. These 17 States comprise what is called the West, extending from the tier of States on the 100th meridian to the Pacific Ocean, and from Mexico to Canada, each an air line distance of nearly miles. The West has an infinitely varied terrain plains, plateaus, rolling hills, mountains, gorges and desert - but one predominant characteristic of climate: Dryness. There is a scarcity of rain and snow throughout most of the area. Except for an isolated section in the northwest corner along the Pacific coast there is generally not enough precipitation for growing crops and, in many sections, because the scant water supply has not been stored and made available for use, hardly enough for the maintenance of civilized life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.