The land is riddled with streams and bottom lands mostly draining through the McGee Creek drainage basin into the Illinois River.
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The boom town of Sayre, which had the Lehigh Valley Shops to maintain trains and broad bottom land making travel easier.
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Sundquist, who farms 33 acres of old river-bottom land between Coburg and Harrisburg, says the hedges offer food and habitat for wildlife.
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Easy access to fresh water also would have been mandatory, which is another reason why settlements were in bottom lands near water.
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Some of the miners abandoned their search for gold and returned to farm the rich bottom land along Ralston Creek and Clear Creek.
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For some time he worked a variety of jobs in the rough frontier town, while slowly buying bottom land along the Elwha River.
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Wet bottom lands of rivers and major streams frequently provide such conditions, particularly where bare soil has been exposed or new soil laid down.
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The reservation originally included bottom lands along the Missouri, which had been farmed previously by Mandan and Arikara, and others prior to these tribes.
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It has a 45-mile-long reservation along the banks of the Colorado River, where cotton, grain, alfalfa, lettuce and melons are grown on fertile river-bottom land.
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Visitors and residents today can still see the large open pits where the leather was tanned along Route 693 and the " bottom lands ."
