Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
Transcriber's Note: Words in italics are indicated like _this_. Subscripts are indicated like this: H_{2}O. The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as listed at the end of the text.
The lowest point to which the water plane dropped was during June and July, 1909, when the levels stood slightly above 565.00 m., or 5 m. above the level of the floor of the inf...
10. Part 10The diagram, Fig. 21, is a record of the rainfall during the latter flood, and was plotted from intermittent readings of standard gauges. It demonstrates that the intensity incr...
11. Part 11Where a wide surface is given to a small quantity of flowing sewage, it stagnates slowly along the bottom of the sewer, leaving frequent deposits to undergo decomposition and cr...
9. Part 9+-----+------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+ | | Monthly | Liters | Price for | Minimum | Rate for | Total | |Class| property | of | 1,000 | monthly...
4. Part 4_Excavation and Embankment._--The heavy slope of the ground at the selected site made the circular form the most desirable. On the low side the ground was excavated about 2 m. b...
2. Part 2One of the chief characteristics of many of the streams in the State of Nuevo León, is their disappearance and reappearance at different points along their routes, and the Santa...
3. Part 3The gradient of the concrete pipes is 0.43% from Estanzuela to Mederos, and 0.53% from Mederos to the South Reservoir. The calculated discharging capacity of the conduit when ru...
1. Part 1Transcriber's Note: Words in italics are indicated like _this_. Subscripts are indicated like this: H_{2}O. The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as lis...
8. Part 8The outfall intercepts the two main branches of the city sewers at Calle de Allende and Calle de Tapia, and its total length is approximately 11,900 m. The chief type adopted is...
6. Part 6For placing the side-walls, a special traveling form was used, the details of which are shown clearly on Plate XIV. At the end of each form an expansion joint of 25 cm. was left...
12. Part 12Mr. Pitkethly's apprehensions as to the adequacy of the system of ventilation adopted have not been realized, in part perhaps because the houses, though generally of only one st...
7. Part 7+--------------+----------+----------------------------------------+ | | | 76 CM. (30 IN.) | | | +-------+------------+--------+----------+ | Employees. | Rate for | Total | Tot...