dryfarming

Updated: May 14, 2025

Such dishonest practices were, however, indignantly denied by those who fostered the irrigation and dryfarming booms which made the last phase of exploitation of the old range. A vast amount of disaster was worked by the failure of number less irrigation companies, each of them offering lands to the settlers through the medium of most alluring advertising.

Emerson Hough - The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West