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Show World's Largest Dam Completed. Washington. The completion of the Shoshone dam, in Wyoming, the highest high-est in the world, is announced by the reclamation service. This structure has a total height from base to parapet of 328.4 feet. It is located in the canyon of xhe Shoshone river, in one of the wil iest and most picturesque regions of northern Wyoming. The walls of the gorge are nearly perpendicular, and rise nearly 2,000 feet above the stream. At its base,, the Shoshone dam is seventy feet across, on top it is 175 feet in length, and at the bottom it is 108 feet wide. The Shoshone dam creates an enormous enor-mous reservoir with a surface area of ten square miles and an average depth of seventy feet. Its capacity expressed in gallons is 148,588.512,000. The work of construction has been attended with difficulty and danger from the beginning. begin-ning. Its location is in a section which was inaccessible until the government excavated an expensive road into the canyon, many miles of which were cut from the solid rock. The purpose of this structure is to ocntrol the great floods of the Shoshone river and to provide pro-vide an ample water sunnly for the irrigation ir-rigation of more than 100.000 acres of exceptionally fertile land in the valley below. A portion of this land is now-available now-available for settlers under the terms of the reclamation act. |