UNITED STATES 



CLAMATION 



Government Irrigation Work During the Month. 



Round-Up A summation of the work 

 ^JJj^ Year's of ^^e Reclamation Serv- 

 ice for 1907 shows that it 

 has dug 1,815 miles of canals, or near- 

 ly the distance from Washington, D. C. 

 to Idaho. Some of these canals carry 

 whole rivers, like the Truckee River 

 in Nevada and the North Platte in 

 Wyoming. The tunnels excavated are 

 56 in number, and have an aggregate 

 length of 10^ miles. The Service has 

 erected 214 large structures, including 

 the great dams in Nevada and the 

 Minidoka dam in Idaho, 80 feet high 

 and 650 feet long. It has completed 

 670 headworks, flumes, etc. 



It has built 611 miles of wagon 

 road in mountainous country and into 

 heretofore inaccessible regions. It has 

 erected and has in operation 830 miles 

 of telephones. Its own cement mill 

 has manufactured 80,000 barrels of ce- 

 ment, and the purchased amount is 

 403,000 barrels. Its own saw mills 

 have cut 3,036,000 feet B. M. of lum- 

 ber, and 23,685,000 feet have been pur- 

 chased. The surveying parties of the 

 Service have completed topographic 

 surveys covering 10,970 square miles, 

 an area greater than the combined 

 areas of Massachusetts and Rhode Isl- 

 and. The transit lines had a length of 

 18.900 linear miles, while the level 

 lines run amount to 24,218 miles, or 

 nearly sufficient to go around the 

 earth. 



The diamond drillings for dam sites 

 and canals amount to 66.749 feet, or 

 more than twelve miles. To-day the 

 Service owns and has at work 1,500 

 horses and mules. It operates 9 loco- 

 motives, 611 cars and 23 miles of rail- 



road, 84 gasoline engines and 70 

 steam engines. It has constructed and 

 is operating five electric light plants. 

 There have been excavated 33,419,222 

 cubic yards of earth and 4,745,000 cu- 

 bic yards of rock. The equipment now 

 operated by the Service on force ac- 

 count work represents an investment 

 of a million dollars. 



This work has been carried on with 

 the following force : Classified and 

 registered service, including Washing- 

 ton office, 1,126; laborers employed di- 

 rectly by the Government, 4,448 ; la- 

 borers employed by contractors, 10,- 

 789, total of all forces, 16,363. The 

 expenditures now total nearly $1,000,- 

 000 per month. As a result of the 

 operations of the Reclamation Service 

 eight new towns have been establish- 

 ed, 100 miles of branch railroads have 

 been constructed, and 14,000 people 

 have taken up their residence in the 

 desert. 



Truckee-Car- Amongst the points of 

 son Project information given out 

 Complete ^^ ^^^ Reclamation 



Service for the benefit of home-seek- 

 ers are the following facts: 



The Truckee-Carson project is now 

 practically completed. Four million 

 dollars have been spent in the con- 

 struction of dams, ditches and drains 

 and over 100,000 acres of land are now 

 open to settlement. Some of the 

 ditches have been operated for two 

 years. During the season of 1906, 21,- 

 000 acres were cultivated, and during 

 1907 practically 25,000 acres were cul- 

 tivated. There are now about one 

 thousand farms awaiting settlement. 



