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Show Plan for the Irrigation of a Vast Tract If this project Is realized the engineers engi-neers declare It will comprise the greatest irrigated area in the United States. The cost of this project In the lower Rio Grande valley, It Is estimated, would range from $00,000,000 to $100.-000,000, $100.-000,000, depending upon the height of the main dam aud whether one or two storage dams will be deemed essential. It will be recommended that. It built, construction shall be by the United States government, either by advancing the funds directly, taking liens against the land within the district dis-trict until repaynient Is made, or by underwriting the bonds of a vast Irrigation Irri-gation district to be created. The magnitude of the project has Impressed the engineers, who point out that with a climate such as possessed by the Rio Grande valley It will be possible always to raise two and possibly pos-sibly three crops each year. Frost rarely ever reuches the Rio Grande country, which Is In about the same latitude as lower Florida, and even now Is the source of most of the early vegetables for the Middle West. XX7ASIIINGTON. The three-year survey of the Rio Grande Irrigation Irriga-tion project designed to Improve nearly near-ly half a million acres of land has been completed by engineers for the United States reclamation service. The engineers engi-neers now are engaged in drafting a report, recommending approval of the project, which will be submitted to Director Arthur Davis, By the construction, of a dam across the river, above the little town of Rio Grande City, Tex., It will be possible, engineers say, to bring under gravity irrlgat'on an area of from 350.000 to 600,000 acres. |