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Show Diverting a River's Course In accordance with the policy recommended recom-mended by President Roosevelt In his message to Congiess, the United Stales Government Is taking Its llrst step to-ward to-ward ictlalmlng tho aril lands ot the West. Ono of tho greatest engineering feats of modern times Is nlteudy under way Tho Gunnison river in Colorado Is to be diverted from Its tourso thiough a six-in six-in Ilo tunnel so that the strenm shall Irrigate Ir-rigate tho UncninpnliBre ulley. It will tost $1,000,000 Tho lesult will bo tint a whole farming farm-ing tommunlty VMM bo reclaimed nnd n fertile dlstilct, now parched nnd dry for lack of vv liter, will onco more blossom ns the lose. When tho Umompahgro valley was settled, u few ears ago, nbundnnt Irrigation Irri-gation wns supplied b) tho Uncompah-gro Uncompah-gro river, but tho cutting of the timber since then hns tnused the stroani to shilnk to a tiny creek As a consequent tho fnrins weio deserted nnd the value of the land sunk tn almost nothing Now, with the piomlse of a now wnter supply, the land has fulrly leaped In price, and som ot It Is now held ns high us $100 an ncte The work piellmlnury to starting the big tunnel has Just been completed by tho United States geographical survey It Involved n trip ncioss the Mat k Can) on of tho Gunnison n district that was never beforo explored In Us entirety by white men A few rars ago a parly of explorers mado nn nttempt, but llicy had gone only n short illstunco when they lost nil their bouts nnd supplies, nnd bniely escaped Willi their lives. licrnro setting out. tho Government employes planned to hnvo provisions lowered tn them by ropes from above bo the) sinrted with ns light nn equip, ment ns possible nnlj their survovnrV Instruments n tnmein and a feu netes-sar netes-sar nrtlclos It took them ten di)s to ti averse the ten miles of their Journei New York Herald J |