Show According to the description the reservoir res-ervoir work of the Government under the National Irrigation actwill be on a tremendous scale for the Milk river dam A reservoir twenty miles by twenty miles filled with water held back by n dam two miles long and six tyfive feet high is n plan on such a stupendous scale n to call for the admiration ad-miration of the country Suppose the water to average twenty feet deep in that immense reservoir It would amount to twenty billion cubic feet or enough to water two hundred and fifty thousand acres of land counting eighty thousand feet to the acre or t depth of nearly two feet of water over all that area during the season |