1917] RURAL ENGINEERING. 585 



in open channels, over weirs and notches, and in rivers; construction of pipes, 

 flumes, ditches, masonry and concrete dams, and earthen dams ; and water power 

 and water prime motors. 



Report of the State water commission of California, 1917 {Rpt. State 

 Water Com. Cah, 1915-16, pp. 1S3, pis. 10, figs. 5).— This report contains data 

 on water rights and water supply In California, duty of water, ground water 

 and its relation to surface water, water spreading, check dams, interstate water 

 rights, rice culture, the irrigation districts of California, and the principal pri- 

 vate irrigation enterprises. A list, hy counties, of all applications for the appro- 

 priation of water, together with a statement of their status, is included. 



Report of the water conservation and irrig-ation commission [of New 

 South Wales] for the year ended June 30, 1916 (2V. iS. Wales Rpt. Water Con- 

 serv. and Irrig. Com., 1916, pp. 128, pis. 10). — This report for 1916 contains 

 data on irrigation areas in New South Wales established and controlled by the 

 State, irrigation schemes uuder consideration for State control, water con- 

 servation works constructed by the State but administered by local trusts, 

 national works maintained by the commission, artesian and shallow boring, and 

 water conservation and irrigation works constructed by private persons. 

 Eleven appendixes of financial and statistical data are included. 



Administration report, irrigation department, Punjab, 1915-16 (Punjab 

 Irrig. Branch Admin. Rpt. 1915-16, pp. 178, pis. 13). — This is an administrative 

 report, including statistical data on expenditures and revenues for irrigation 

 in the Punjab. 



Surface water supply of North Atlantic slope drainage basins, 1915 (77. S. 

 Geol. Survey, Watcr-Suppli/ Paper 4OI (1917), pp. 155+XXXVI, pis. 2).— 

 This report contains the results of measurements of flow made on the drainage 

 basins of streams in the North Atlantic slope during 1915, together with the 

 usual list of gauging stations and publications. 



Surface water supply of Ohio River Basin, 1915 (U. S. Geol. Survey, Water- 

 Supply Paper 403 (1917), pp. 175+XXXIV, pis. 2),— This report presents the 

 results of measurements of flow made on streams in the Ohio River Basin during 

 1915, together with the usual list of stream-gauging stations and publications. 



Centrifug-al pumps and suction dredgers, E. W. Sakgeant (Philadelphia: 

 J. B. Lippincott Co., 1916, pp. VIII +188, pis. 16, figs. iSi).— This book is essen- 

 tially a manual of centrifugal pumping machinery for the use of engineers and 

 designers and those responsible for the installation and supervision of cen- 

 trifugal pumping plants. It contains chapters on the design and construction 

 of centrifugal pumps of different types ; pumps in series and parallel ; high 

 capacity, low-head pumps; charging apparatus; testing of centrifugal pumps; 

 centrifugal pumping machinery for drainage, irrigation, and sewage; and 

 pumps for dredging and conveying solids. 



Some costs of maintenance of motor-driven deeppwell pumps, M. L. Engeb 

 (Jour. Amer. Watei- Works Assoc., ^ (1917), No. 2, pp. 190, 191). — Records made 

 at the University of Illinois are reported. 



TJnlined earth reservoirs for pumping plants, (Jour. Electricity, 38 (1917), 

 No. 10, pp. 395-397, figs. 2). — Cost data per acre-foot for different capacities of 

 unlined reservoirs for irrigation are graphically given, together with tabular 

 and other data on the details in the construction of t3T)ical unlined earth 

 reservoirs. 



Pumping for irrigation on the farm, P. E. Fulleb (U. S. Dept. Agr. Year- 

 hook 1916, pp. 507-520, pi. 1, fig. 1). — This article deals with types of pumps 

 and their special adaptations, and with the general features of proper installa- 

 tion of an irrigation pumping plant, including well construction. 

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