Show RECLAMATION OF ARID LANDS What tIle Government is Doing for the Farmers Washington an address on reclamation re-clamation work In the west before the National Geographical society C J Blanchard of the geological geologi-cal survey declared that seventy savtni miles of main canals of river size have been built during the throe years In which the United States reclamation re-clamation service has been organized and that irrigation canals long enough to span the earth twice and representIng represent-Ing an outlay of IO000000 had beet built during the past quarter cam fury Every year ho said this area returns re-turns a harvest valued at more than 150000000 and 2t > 00000 people avail In harmony and content where only a short time ago the Wilderness reigned The reclamation service has built fiftyfour miles of irrigation canals and ISC miles of ditches It has constructed con-structed and has In operation 150 miles of telephone Ply miles Jf road In canyons Involving deep cuts It 1 has excavated 10000000 cubic yards of material and onehalf mile of tunnels tun-nels Work Is I now actively going on on eleven different projects |