Show reclamation IN WYOMING wyoming is leading utah in government reclamation up in the shoshone river region of northern wyoming in a solid granite canyon with perpendicular cular walls several hundred tact in height tho engineers of the reclamation service propose to construct the highest dam in the world with a total height of feet above bed rock a bottom width of 65 feet and a top width of feet this mammoth structure will create a reservoir with a storage capacity of acre feet all the details of construction have been carefully worked out and now the secretary of the interior is advertising for bids for constructing the dam these proposals have been received at the office of the reclamation service billings montana and opened today proposals for the spillway outlet and road tunnels will bo opened at the same time this work is of special interest because of the unusual engineering features necessitated by the natural conditions of the canyon in order to obtain a bed rock foundation the dam will have to be constructed 68 feet below the bed of the river in order to provide for a spillway to allow excessive floods to pass the dam a tunnel will be constructed around the dam through the of the mountains to discharge nto the canyon several hundred feet below the dam this tunnel will have a capacity of cubic feet per second sufficient to carry the largest floods of the stream there be two outlet tunnels each 3 12 1 2 miles long one taking its supply directly from the reservoir tor the high line canal covering acres of high land in the upper valley and the other diverting water from tho river 16 miles below the dam for the low line canal to supply the remaining portion the canals will decrease de creaso in size with distance from tho tunnels as distributing are taken out it is probable that about acres of land on the south side of the river now belonging to the state under the terms 0 tho carey act will bo acquired and included in this project the secretary 0 tho interior set aside from tho reclamation fund with which to initiate athla work and it Is estimated that acres of public land on the north side of tho can be reclaimed |