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Show Build Vast Artificial Lake. A remarkable engineering feat was', recently accomplished in southernj India when the mammoth artificial' lake of MariKanave was completed In Mysore an Indian state twice as large as Maryland, . ruled by an en-; lightened and progressive maharaja. It, Is 18 miles long and has an area of 30, square miles. The dam thrown across the gorge 240 feet wide to impound' water that formerly ran to waste and Is now being utilized for irrigating land that would be otherwise parched and barren, is 1,330 feet long, 1G2 feet high, and 15 feet thick. A weir 470 feet long has been built to discharge excess water, which, during the monsoon mon-soon is heavy. The work was lnitlat-, ed and finished by Indian engineers) and is a monument to their engineering engineer-ing skill, as it is a credit to the gov- ernment of his highness, the maharnja, j who furnished the money for It $1,-1 500,000. |