NATIONAL RECLAMATION OF ARID LANDS. 



By C. J. Blancharu, 

 l^tatixtiridi). United States Reclainiitioii Service. 



The year just closed was marked by substantial progress in the 

 work of national reclamation of arid lands. Important structures 

 have been completed, several of the largest engineering works ever 

 attempted in this country are under construction, and detailed plans 

 have been prepared and approved for other w^orks of similar magni- 

 tude. The preliminary surveys and examinations, which involved 

 much time and labor, are practically concluded. Out of nearly one 

 hundred projects examined all but twenty-eight have been eliminated 

 for the present, and during the next three years the engineers will 

 concentrate their entire attention upon the building of these great 

 works. 



A list of the j)rojects upon which actual construction is now in 

 progress is shown in the table herewith. 



Reclaiuaiioii projecis itoir in process of eonslriicfion. 



Project. 



Estimated 

 cost. 



Salt River, Arizona 



Yuma, California-Arizona 



Uncompahgre, Colorado 



Minidoka, Idaho 



Payette-Boise, Idaho j 1, 



Garden City, Kansas ] 



Milk River, Montana 1 , 



Huntley, Montana 



Sun River, Montana 



North Platte, Nebraska-Wyoming 4, 



Truckee-Carson, Nevada 4, 



Hondo, New Mexico 



Carlsbad, New Mexico 



Rio Grande, New Mexico 



Lower Yellowstone, Montana-North Dakota 



Buford-Trenton, Williston, Nesson, North Dakota 



Klamath, Oregon-California 



Umatilla, Oregon 



Belle Fourche, South Dakota 



Strawberry Valley, Utah 



Okanogan, Washington 



Tieton, Washington 



Sunnyside, Washington 



Wapeto, Washington , 



Shoshone, Wyoming 



Total . 



300, 000 

 500,000 

 •200, 000 

 800, 000 

 605, 000 

 260, 000 

 500, 000 

 900, 000 

 500, 000 

 100,000 

 000, 000 

 336, 000 

 600, 000 

 200, 000 

 700, 000 

 270, 000 

 400, 000 

 100, 000 

 000, 000 

 850, 000 

 500,000 

 400, 000 

 000, 000 

 600, 000 

 500, 000 



Irrigable 

 acreage. 



200, 000 



100, 000 



150,000 



80, 000 



120, 000 



8,000 



40,000 



33, 000 



16, 000 



110,000 



200, 000 



10,000 



20, 000 



15, 000 



60, 000 



40, 000 



50, 000 



18, 000 



100, 000 



35, 000 



9,000 



24,000 



40, 000 



20, 000 



100, 000 



50,121,000 1,598,000 



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