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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
the Laguna del Madre into Corpus Christi Bay, 100 miles
with three feet depth of water; from thence into Aransas
Bay, sixteen miles, with an average depth of three feet
water; from thence to Matagorda Bay, forty-eight miles,
good for six feet water; thence through Matagorda Bay
to Caney Creek, forty-five miles, eight feet depth of water;
from Caney Creek, seven miles solid dicgging, into San
Bernard lake and river; from San Bernard river
to Brazos river, ten miles solid digging; thence
through canal and West Bay into Glalveston Bay,
thirty miles, with four feet depth of water; thence
through Galveston Bay and through East Bay to East
Bay bayou, with from six to nine feet water for twenty
miles, and the last five miles three feet. water and soft
mud, making in all twenty-five miles; from thence
through East Bay and Elm Bayous, ten miles; thence
seventeen miles solid digging- to Taylor's Bayou down
which to Sabine Lake, eight miles.
WATER SUPPLY.-A good portion of Texas has an
abundance of springs and living streams of water; and
in most places in the State good water can be obtained at
a depth varying from fifteen to one hundred feet. But
in others where water can not be had by digging, or when
it is unsuitable for use, owing to mineral substances with
which it is impregnated, a water supply is secured by
tanks. A darn is thrown across a ravine hav ing a moderate
fall, and the earth is scraped out down to the hard
clay. Large reservoirs are thus constructed, and filled
by the rains, which being protected from stock, furnish
an abundant supbly of good fresh water.
ARTESIAN WELLS.-The scarcity of water in Western
Texas induced the United States Congress, in 1856, to
make an appropriation of $100,000 for boring artesian
wells in the arid region between the Nueces and Rio
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/64/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .