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Water Resource Basins Delineate Montana Irrigation Progress
A state survey details Montana’s irrigation expansion from 1899 to 1902. It describes two large divisions Eastern and Western Montana, major river basins including Missouri tributaries and Clark Fork, and the scale of irrigation across 93,881,184 acres with 1,140,964 irrigated. It notes construction costs, system counts, and per acre costs for streams springs and wells supplying irrigation water.
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Montana
Ceneug Bureau
Texas
California
Colorado
Great Plains
Rocky Mountains
Missouri
Columbia
Missoula River
Clark Fork
Kootenai River
Jefferson
Madison
Gallatin
Yellowstone River
Yellowstone Lake
Wyoming
Livingston
North Dakota
Bitter Root Mountains
Flathead River
Bitter Root
Bitter Root River
Hellgate River
Big Blackfoot River
Jefferson River
Ita
Great Bend
Big Hole
Beaverhead River
Milk River
High Plains
Canada
Missoula
Flathead
Kootenai
Tobacco River