Uncle Sam's New Dam at Elephant Butte 



At right, the storage dam at Elephant 

 Butte, New Mexico, built by the 

 United States Reclamation Service for 

 the irrigation of thousands of acres of 

 desert land. The dam was completed 

 May 13th at an estimated cost of five 

 million dollars. It stores eight hundred 

 and fifty-six million gallons of water 



In oval below, a general view of the 

 dam looking East. The great body of 

 water covers a complete range of low- 

 lying hills and valleys several hundred 

 feet deep. For the quantity of water 

 stored it is said to be the greatest 

 storage dam in the world. It holds 

 enough water to cover the State of 

 Coimecticut to a depth of ten inches 



Below, a view of the retain- 

 ing wall, which is three 

 hundred and eighteen feet 

 high and one thousand six 

 hundred and seventy-four 

 feet wide. The Washing- 

 ton Monument, if set at 

 the outlet base of the dam, 

 would rise above it only a 

 bare two hundred feet 



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