id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 50704 Various The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 4, October, 1889 .txt text/plain 24869 895 64 rivers--forming a plain 450 miles long, with an average width of from base, lies the Owen's river country, an area suitable for irrigation, 2000 to 3000 cubic feet of water per second; King's river presents in Missouri settlers went into the valley of Kern river, diverted water The general character of the irrigation works of the State varies very mountains nearly on a level with the surface of the plain, cutting down interior valley, King's river is a stream where coöperative and State, on the great plains of Modoc, we have the Pitt river, a stream the river valleys are of this sharp cut character in high mountains, one time completed their work upon it, reached a base level. many waters have been concentrated to form that great river. upon, viz: Length, 45.5 miles; depth, 28 feet; width at water line 164 The bed of the river is here 42 feet above sea level, or 70 ./cache/50704.txt ./txt/50704.txt