Vol. 31 



AUGUST, 1915 



No. 2 



ARROW ROCK DAM NEARING COMPLETION 



ONE of the most important links in 

 the reclamation project of the 

 United States Government for the 

 making fertile of 30,000,000 acres of 



in charge of the construction, the dam 

 will be finished during the summer of 

 this year two years less than the time 

 estimated. The construction machinery 



A Collection of Views 

 of the Arrow Rock 

 Dam Which is Rapidly 

 Nearing Completion. 

 The Total Height of 

 the Dam is 350 Feet, 

 90 Feet of Which Are 

 Below the Natural 

 River Bed. Work on 

 the Dam was Begun in 

 1910. 



desert land is nearing completion at Ar- 

 row Rock, Idaho. Preliminary work on 

 the Arrow Rock Dam was done in 1910. 

 According to the United States engineers 



is driven by electricity generated at the 

 Government diversion dam, twenty miles 

 down the river, where most of the water 

 is used for irrigation. More than half a 



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