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Show TO RECLAIM EMPIRE. Big Irrigation Enterprise In Colorado Now Assured. Pueblo, Colo. Announcement was made Thursday at the office of tho Colorado Southern Irrigation company that the contract for the construction of tho Irrigation system of tho company com-pany and the Canon City, Florenco and Pueblo Water company, had been awarded to Kenneflck, Qulgloy & Russell Rus-sell of Kansas City, Mo. $12,987,000. The project is one of tho biggest irrigation irri-gation enterprises ever attempted and the contraqt calls for its completion by April lTlOlS. Active work will bo commenced within sixty days and 3,000 men will bo employed in constructing con-structing the twolvo roservolrs, 160 miles of main canals and thirty miles of diversion canals. Tho largest ros-orvoir ros-orvoir will havo n dam 107 feot high. Tho reservoirs will havo a storage capacity ca-pacity of 750,000 aero feet and will ir-rlgato ir-rlgato about 300,000 aoros of land in tho Arkansas valley. |