Show LAND IRRIGATED BY INDIANS before the advent of the the system was in vogie among tho the aborigines irrigation began in texas many 3 lears mrs before the lands embraced within its boundaries became a part of the united states years before those same lands made up ahat was known as the lone star republic writes james R preddy freddy in the american forestry magazine to bring the time down dowd to a more tangible date the first irrigation work ork nals ft os done according to tradition when nhen the pueblo IDd indians lails constructed the peculiar ditches about el paso and the pecos country ou which authorities of today claim were built for irrigation purposes another tradition om coming out of tile lie past tells that these thes ditches were hullt by the yuma indians when mien they were nere driven westward by bt the Coman Conia clies nelies and artiche apaches and not by the pueblos when coronado the roving ex gloier opened this country to the lie found well worked irrigation systems among the indians this was as in 1510 1540 15 10 when ihen lie was pushing tow aid the north the practice of 0 irrigation was continued under the franciscan fathers who constructed the five mission ditches that were round found near the present city of san antonio even under mexican rule the he oil did not stop and grants bt br t I 1 lie c mexican government often read as follows I 1 in the name 0 of the mexican nation nadon n i grants him one day of water with its corresponding labor of land |