Show I Build Vast Artificial Lake I A remarkable engineering feat teat was recently accomplished In southern WaS India when the mammoth artificial lake of was completed In Mysore an Mysore-an an Indian state twice as large as Maryland ruled rued by an enlightened enlightened enlightened en en- aSI lightened and progressive maharaja It ItIs It ItIs Is 18 miles mUes long and has an area of SO 30 Sl square miles The dam thrown across the gorge gorge feet wide wide wide-to to impound water that formerly ran to waste and andIs Is now being utilized for land that would be otherwise parched and barren Is 1330 feet long feet fee high and 15 15 feet thick A weir 47 feet long has been built been built to discharge discharge- excess water which during the monsoon mon mon-i soon is heavy The work vork was Initiate ed and finished by Indian engineers engineers- J and is a monument to their engineer J ing lag skill as It is a credit to the government gov gov- of his highness the who furnished the money for it lt l I |