THE NEW EARTH 



PROJECTS FOR WHICH BIDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED 



Amount set aside 



State Projects for beginning .Acres 



construction irrigable 



California and Arizona Yuma $3, COO, 000 85,000 



Montana Huntley 900,000 35,000 



Montana and North Dakota. . Ft. Buford 1,800,000 60,000 



PROJECTS APPROVED BY THE SECRETARY or THE INTERIOR 



Oregon and California Klamath Falls $1,000,000 236,000 



Oregon Malheur 2,250,000 100,000 



Montana Milk River 1,000,000 200,000 



North Dakota Bismarck 15,000 



Pumping Buford-Trenton 550,000 18,000 



Washington Palouse (postponed). 2,800,000 80,000 



Idaho Payette-Boise 1,300,000 250,000 



The amount of land to be irrigated in these 

 initial enterprises is one million, eight hundred 

 and fifty-nine acres. It is estimated that the 

 reclamation of this section of the arid West 

 will increase land values nearly ninety millions 

 of dollars, with an annual income from the 

 lands irrigated amounting to nearly thirty 

 millions of dollars. 



The possibilities of this, one of the com- 

 manding acts of agriculture in the era of the 

 New Earth, can not be estimated. As the 

 years pass, the occupants of the new region 

 will become more intensive in their farm 

 life, and thus there will be provision for other 

 and still other thousands of settlers, all of 

 them, even unto the millions, sustained and 



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