Show WILL RECLAIM MUCH LAND Auditor of Reclamation De T Tells eUs of Work tn on Eleven Projects Edmund T Perkins inspecting auditor of the United States reclamation service was In Salt Lake yesterday ay on his way to inspect the Gunnison IrrIgation project in Colorado Mr lIr Perkins i Is looking Into the methods of the varIous engineers in charge of the projects to seE that they are carried on an economical basis While In I Salt Lake he visited with George L Sw head of the Utah reclamation se ice Mr Perkins spoke favorably of the Strawberry project and stated that as soon as the weather opened up the pre work would be corn com commenced There are eleven Irrigation projects now under construction Mr lIr Perkins said that will reclaim about two million acres These projects will wili have cost when completed about This money will be laid back Into the service b by the theland land ind owners and in this way the recia mation fund will always have money to continue its work There are a number of other projects now under consideration and the Straw Strawberry Strawberry berry project is one of them It will cost more than a million dollars to complete it and work on it will undoubtedly corn com commence mence in a short time For the past two or three weeks I have been in and ArIzona inspect inspectIng inspectIng Ing the work that Is going on there At Rondo Hondo and Carlsbad the construction work vork is progressing rapidly The dam at washed out some time ago and the he reclamation department jumped In Inand inand and Is rebuilding It under the reclamation service About will be spent there thereIn In reconstructIng the dam Up to date has been spent on the Roosevelt dam in Arizona and another million will willbe willbe be spent before It is completed At Yuma Ariz the waters of the Col Colorado orado are being successfully mastered by bya a darn dam now beIng constructed It is a kind of beaver dam dais with an apron con constructed constructed so as to prevent a cataract It ItIs Itis Is a type of darn dam built in India and has been successful there on rivers rivera carrying flood waters thirty times the volume Of o othe the Colorado The apron is built with n a gradual slope for a quartEr of a mile be below below low the darn dam This gives a foundation to the dam which makes it almost Impossible impossible sible to wash away |