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Excerpt from Great American Levees: A Comparative Report on Flood Protection in the Mississippi and Sacramento Valleys, Made for the West Sacramento Company
In the Sacramento Valley the reclaimed lands are unusually fertile and of great value for agricultural purposes; while the climatic conditions are of such an ideal nature that intensive cultivation is followed with the most surprising success. Because of the uncertain and hazardous protection from flood waters in the past, these lands have not been available for settlement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.