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Show ' RECLAMATION. . A part of the annual report of the secretary of the interior deals with the reclamation service and details the work accomplished and contemplated, which is especially interesting to the wost. Twenty-eight irrigation projects covering nearly 2.000,-000 2.000,-000 acres of land are included in the report. Iu many of the districts water is already on the land, and in two or three years the whole work now under way will have been completed. Results so far accomplished ac-complished are so notable that the secretary of the interior is justified in pointing to the development as altogether sufficient reason for a continuation of the plan of work decided upon some five years ago. Accompanying the irrigation projects is the drainage work to be done by the reclamation service. ser-vice. The report shows about 78.000.000 acres of swamp land in the central and southeastern states, much of which can be drained arid made available for settlement. Already engineers have begun the survey of the Everglades of Florida, and it is confidently con-fidently believed their reports will be favorable to the drainage of this vast swamp. Secretary Garfield Gar-field urges congress to activity in these two branches of reclamation, which promise within a short time a full return of the money invested and the establishment of many homes for the people. |