This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...amount of mineral matter is too small to impart any taste to the water; but the water from wells sunk in the adjacent bottom land is brackish. As none of the sediments above compared contain more than traces of organic matter, it is clear that their fertilizing properties depend upon their inorganic material. Analyses ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...amount of mineral matter is too small to impart any taste to the water; but the water from wells sunk in the adjacent bottom land is brackish. As none of the sediments above compared contain more than traces of organic matter, it is clear that their fertilizing properties depend upon their inorganic material. Analyses of a clayey soil, six miles east of Ehrenberg, exhibit the following mechanical condition: Silt, 52.30; Clay, 24.20; Hygroscopic water, 3.65; Chemically bound water, 8.91. The chemical constituents soluble in hydrochloric acid, are as follows: Potassa, 0.283; Chloride of Sodium, 2.047; Soda, 0.182; Carbonate of Lime, 9.264; Sulphate of Lime, 1.321; Phosphoric Acid, 0.151; Oxide of Iron and Alumina, 5.160; Insoluble in Hydrochloric Acid, 77.2. On the west side of the river, near Ehrenberg, is wide bottom land, and along the river is a rich growth of cottonwood and other trees. Skirting the bottom is a rich mesa 30 miles in length and three to ten miles in width, having no water, but prodncing pasturage from the winter and summer rains. The adjoining mountains on both sides are believed to contain gold, silver and copper in paying quantities. Colonel Hodge, who surveyed townships five and six south, ranges 23 and 24 east of the San Bernardino meridian, and townships seven and eight south, ranges 23 east, states that they contain about 43,000 acres of rich bottom land, (perhaps taken up, or attempted to be, as " desert land,") and that there is a timber belt on the river 20 miles in length and averaging over half a mile in width. Sloughs extending over this bottom are bordered by cottonwood, willow and mesquite timber suitable for fuel. The soil is rich, sandy loam, equal to any on the lower Mississippi, formed by the overflow of the ri...
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