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Show imately 8,000,000 acres of irrig-! able land, divided into about i i;ii,00ti farmes of from t.-n to h'.O-acres h'.O-acres each. During the year "1015 water was available from government ditches for 1.4)0,4o7 acres on 29,017 Tarnis. and t'ne ' government was 'under contract to supply water to l.OSo.Otrj acres. The net investment of the service to date is approximately approx-imately 5100, U0U, 000.' ' U. S. Reclamation Wrok A summary of the work of the reclamation service up to the beginning of the fiscal year was given out tonight. It shows that it has dug 9592 miles 0: ditches and tunnels and bail' dams with a total volume 0: 12,200,000 cubic yards, includ ing the two highest dams in th( world. The water storage spacf obtained is 0,500,000 acre feet the statement says, or enougl to cover the entire states of Nev Jersey and Delaware to a deptl of twelve inches. "The service has built," thi statement continues, "i'2.-l-bridges, with a total length 0: nineteen miles. Its culvert numbered 8711 and- are thirty six miles long. There are nov in operation 293 miles of pipe line and eighty-five miles o Humes. The service has buil 7S4 miles of wagon roads, mucl of it in what was before inacces si hie mountain regions; eighty two miles of railroad, 2354 mile of telephone lines, 42!) miles o power transmission lines atu 10iW buildings, such as powe y houses, pumping stations, ollices g residences, barns and store r houses. "The projects now ander wa; or completed embrace approx |