Show SEVELT DAM DEDICATED former pr president dent participates at ef opening of f first important irrigation project undertaken under reclamation act roosevelt arizona Stancil standing ng on top f the great storage dam which bears ais name naine former president theodore roosevelt at 6 48 1 p in iii saturday pressed nn all electric button which set u n motion a mass of grin grinding aing machin ry fth ch in turn raised ahrea of the jax nin ahe iron gates uy by this act ho he ifft mily nilly opened the roosevelt stor ago dam a part of the silt salt river arri bantin sal inn project thi tb which ralso tho the gates had bad hadly ha hj d begun to turn before three raging torrents tui routs of water came rush ins ing the tarco openings at different levels and ran madly down the valley where after racing lacing fully six sl ty miles hiloa it will all be in tho the irrigation of about 20 acres ot of land th tb c ceremonies avro opened by bv president arnio of tho the salt river val ley lev avater users association after mr air roosevelt hall had mounted uio tho stand and mrs roosevelt arch aich 0 und miss aliss ethe roosevelt grouped themselves them soles below president onno introduced Go governor vernoi sloan Js as chairman and tho the battor in turn all speakers those who spoke were ero lowig engineer or of the project C J blanch IF Z A k theodore theodora roosevelt ard of the reclamation service jhc read a letter from dr nowell newell and dr 13 A fowler president of the na lional irrigation congress bishop atwood led the spectators spectator a in the lords prayer and later pro jounced the benediction along the top ot of the dam standards bearing electrical globes had been cen erected rec e und 11 alsa as roosevelt coseye set these alight by t touching 0 a button the concluding features fea turea of the day |