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Show BIG IRRIGATION DAM COMPLETED PEN'VER. June 0. The Mandley dam, the largest of its .kind in the world, is completed. Announcement is made thst with the exception of the ''trimmings," which will increase the height of the 'great dam to 140 feet, the Ktaodlev lake irrigation protect, which will fnrniah water for 10.000 acres of land north and east of Denver, is finiahed and within sixty davs water will be pouring into the ditches. T. build the reservoir 3.000.000 cubic yards of earth were excavated with team ahovela. The rapacity of th reservoir res-ervoir is 100,000 acre feet of water. Two irrigation dams recently constructed in India exceed the Htandley in yardsge. but not in height. The project has had a rather checkered inaaeUl career, hut waa finally completed with S2.0O0.0O0 backing from - the Franco-American bank of Paris. |