Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-10-06 | Page 4 | Reclamation

the ft aik oik oc recial ming flie w a i i proving to bo of gigantic proportion here Is a story of just one of alip government undertakings are people at roosevelt arizona the own has been built up by workman 0 lie dam at that point in 1108 when die of the shall have corn clr ed abr highest dam in alio world roo will lie feet below the su face of the water in the reclamation work has been n prore abere for about a year but inan laboring now and day in of eight hours each in order that more than three additional eab may be consumed in the then afao town of roosevelt will disappear and in its stead acre of now barren land near phoenix wit be and give rich up pon 10 man more people than roose now icat the sweeping antt of iho people should app r g it should be explained f i the national geographic i ahat roosevelt is in reality a that practically all of ita ml i hants are gathered to help along ii aalf river reclamation which will coit over efio the engineering problems conn ifa with tao work are groat betoi ti dam could be commenced 0 o miles of road had to bocon K mos of the material has to b brought aiom globe the railway b ai ion which la forty miles away n pow r canal which la to be nine n mil long la well under way its consi ruction lias involved the cecava ion 01 about cubic yards 0 r a calai and the driving of nearly 9 onn frn of tunnel the canal will furn h power to geu crato electricity to operate all the works ohp government will make on the all the cement required instead 01 purchasing it it is that barrels of cement will bp required in the construction of the roosevelt dam the power canal and the various footo improvements the used m alic preliminary work co i 33 a barrel delivered at holni where ir wab used bids were in e received for furnishing cement ai al 41 a barr it will cost too gov e 1 GO a barrel to make the ni on the ground if the cost of ohp plant bal added to ho co of i lie barrels of the total cost of the govern cement will sull be only aso a barrel means a saving of a parrel or a caving of on tho ennic work after the dam and canals have been tho cement plant will still be capable of further uso and considerable salvage may doubtless be realized tho cement mill Is now in operation the fuel used in cement in the ellna is crude pek otanm from the california oil field