| Show ARID aa AREAS eab ARE BEING RECLAIMED R government bureau adds 1675 acres in 20 years annual report gives result of awen ty biars years of f operation of tion act government invest ment washington A 20 year review of government reclamation work is contained in the annual report for the wat year ended last june of director arthur P davis of the united states i reclamation service of the department of oc tile the interior as the duy day ot june 1022 1922 mai marked ked tile the completion of W 4 ot of operation of the national net act v tito tho investment of the government ciurlys tills period hasteen ims has been in round 6 I 1 which lins fins oc ac V the construction conal ruction of ef arks borks by acres of fort for iner arid inn 1 it in the vest wast litia lins been fuini furnished shed with it complete water supply and antl about ft V additional acres in III private projects has liari rec received elved a supplemental supply on government it projects the area comprises ill 11 ll farms a nt t art an average area per farm farin of about fifty three acres sup flying more than aith the investment mentioned the service lins hns excavated more than cubic yards of earth and rock of which about cuble cubic yards have been placed in dams dains canals aggregating more than miles have been built including 27 miles or of tunnels tunnell and miles of flumen flumes structures of all kinds and sizes to the number of have been ere clad in connection connect connection iop with the work some of the lure large projects constructed ted itro tile the roosevelt dim in arizona which Is feet high the Arro dam dain in idaho 34 0 feet high elegant hutto dam dain I 1 in if now mexico Al exico SOO feet high hnit and the path dutli finder and shoshone ghoshon e dain in wyonda IS and Sl put high respectively work ork also included tha erection of blany other dains canals wid tunnels ti tunes s drains power power plants Iran I 1 biot ind end I 1 tele telephone lines roads I 1 t til roads pit pumping it plants und and a of othur other classes of in work arl from in an agricultural standpoint the report sald tile reclamation t erv leu ice lius fins lidded knothe r state to dia 1 union U tilon equal in value of its agrico l tural products to tant of tile lip felfe of west Virgi att tild or the combined values oi of the crops of Verni vermont und find connecticut tito value of crops raised on oi barins on govern government mont projects in 1921 to exclusive of about additional raised on private projects which were furnished water broin fro m works erected by the ice |
