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Show RECLAMATION WORK UP 10 FIRST OF YEAR Investment of $100,000,000 by Government Productive of Good Results. W A SMI XGTON', Nov. 6. A sum mary of D,n work of the reclamation service up to tiio beginning uf the fiscal year was tflvoii out tonight which shows that It has (Jupr 950 miles of ditches and tunnela and built da my with a total volume of 12,-200,010 12,-200,010 ptibic yards, including the two hltfhf-st dams in the world. Th water storaKn flpao ohtafned In 6.600.000 acre fel , thf Htateineiit says, or enough to cover t)m entire Males of Now Jersey and lH;laware to A depth of twelve Inches. '"I'he soi vice has built," the statement fontinue.s, "rtM4 hrlrigpfl, with a total leriKt h of id iieteen miles. Us culverts numbered 8714 and are ihh ty-six miles long. There are now in operation 29S miles of pipeline and elghtyflve miles of flumes. The service hat built 784 miles of wagon road 8, much of It in what was before inaccessible mountain regions; eighty-two miles of railroad. 2554 milea of telephone lines, 429 ml lea of power transmission trans-mission llnea and 106S buildings, Buch aB power houses, pumping stations, offices, residences, barns and storehouses. "The projects now under way or completed com-pleted embrace appropriately 3.000,000 acres of Irrlgahle land, divided Into about ft OfWl fnmio i-r (mm t.n In 1 B each. During the year 1915 water was a valla hie from government ditches for 1.450.407 acres on 2,017 farms, and the novernnipnt wag under contract to supply sup-ply water to 1.088.003 acres. The net Investment of the service to date is approximately ap-proximately $100,000,000." |