 | Engineers Club of Philadelphia - 1892 - 432 pages
...miles in extent. The northern part borders on the drainage area of Columbia and Klamath rivers. It receives sufficient rain to insure a fair yield of...grain-growing must be confined to the river flood-plains. The central part of the basin is traversed by parallel ridges, the upturned edges of immense, faulted... | |
 | 1893 - 394 pages
...miles in extent. The northern part borders on the drainage area of the Columbia and Klamath rivers. It receives sufficient rain to insure a fair yield of...graingrowing must be confined to the river flood-plains. The central part of the basin is traversed by parallel ridges, the upturned edges of immense, faulted... | |
 | American Bureau of Geography - 1900 - 858 pages
...miles in extent. The northern part borders on the drainage area of Columbia and Klamath rivers. It receives sufficient rain to insure a fair yield of...grain-growing must be confined to the river flood-plains. The central part of the basin is traversed by parallel ridges, the upturned edges of immense, faulted... | |
 | American Bureau of Geography - 1900 - 470 pages
...miles in extent. The northern part borders on the drainage area of Columbia and Klamath rivers. It receives sufficient rain to insure a fair yield of...grain-growing; but here, as in other parts of the western highlauds, grain-growing must be confined to the river flood-plains. The central purt of the basin... | |
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... is scant, rarely exceeding an inch or two a year, and in many places consisting of nothing more than an occasional cloudburst. The Great Basin proper is a triangular-shaped area, about 225,000 square miles in extent. The northern part borders on the... 