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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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FT. BUFORD PROJECT, NORTH DAKOTA. 



This project is located on the west 

 or left bank of Yellowstone River, the 

 canal heading near Glendive, Montana. 

 This project involves a canal about 80 

 miles long and covers 60,000 acres of 

 land in Montana and North Dakota. 

 The cost of the headworks is placed at 

 $72,000, and that of other constructions 

 and excavations $1,375,000, or a total 

 of $1,650,000, an average cost per acre 

 of $25. 



MALHEUR PROJECT, OREGON. 



This project contemplates the recla- 

 mation of land in eastern Oregon near 

 Snake River, in the vicinity of the 

 towns of Vale and Ontario. The irri- 

 gable tracts include about 40,000 acres 

 of good bench land lying on the north 

 and south sides of Malheur River. Two 

 reservoir sites of sufficient capacity to re- 

 tain all the flood waters have been found 

 on the stream and have been surveyed. 



BELLE FOURCHE PROJECT, SOUTH 

 DAKOTA. 



This project involves the reclamation 

 of lands in the northeastern part of the 

 Black Hills, in Butte and Meade coun- 

 ties, South Dakota, by the diversion of 

 the waters of Belle Fourche River and 

 the storage of its flood water in basins 

 east of the town of Belle Fourche. 

 These basins are to be converted into 

 storage reservoirs by the construction 

 of embankments of earth closing their 

 outlets. From the reservoirs, which 

 are filled by a large feeder canal from 

 the river, the water will be distributed 

 to lands in the Belle Fourche Valley, 

 where it is thought at least 90,000 acres 

 may be reclaimed, about one-half of 

 which is in public ownership. Power 

 has also been developed at the Dry 

 Creek reservoir and employed to elevate 

 water to Upper Indian Creek flat, where 

 some 15,000 acres of land are located, 

 nearly all in public ownership. 



The reclamation works, it is esti- 

 mated, will cost about $1,230,000. 



UTAH LAKE PROJECT, UTAH. 



Utah Lake is in effect a large storage 

 reservoir, catching the mountain flow 

 and delivering it into the canals. Un- 



fortunately, however, the lake is too 

 large for effective use, and the losses 

 by evaporation are far in excess of the 

 amount put to beneficial use. An ex- 

 tension of irrigation in Salt River Val- 

 ley is dependent upon the ability to 

 reduce the loss by evaporation, and to 

 handle Utah Lake more effectively. 



The lands which will probably be 

 included in this project are probably 

 all in private ownership, and comprise 

 an area of about 70,000 acres. The 

 entire bed of Utah Lake, covering 140,- 

 ooo square miles, has been contoured 

 at intervals of one foot, and all the 

 principal streams flowing into the lake 

 have been systematically measured at 

 the flood season and at low water. 



One million dollars have been set 

 aside for this project. 



BIG BEND PROJECT, WASHINGTON. 



This project contemplates the recla- 

 mation of a large body of land sur- 

 rounded partly by the Columbia River, 

 which flows along the northerly and 

 westerly sides. The lands in 154 town- 

 ships have been withdrawn from entry 

 pending an investigation of this project. 



A number of reservoirs in connection 

 with this project has been discovered 

 and all public lands within their area 

 withdrawn from entry for reservoir 

 purposes. Considered as a whole, the 

 Big Bend project embraces the largest 

 area of irrigable land of any project 

 under consideration by the government. 

 The Secretary has set aside $1,150,000 

 for the continuance of the work on this 

 project. 



CODY PROJECT, WYOMING. 



This project contemplates the recla- 

 mation of land on the north side of 

 Shoshone River, in the town of Cody, 

 in Bighorn county. The irrigable land 

 extends along the river for a distance 

 of about 40 miles and comprises ap- 

 proximately 93,000 acres, most of it 

 being high-grade agricultural land. In 

 addition to this land, about 9,000 acres 

 on the south side of the river may be 

 reclaimed and several thousand acres 

 more in the drainage area of Clark 

 Fork. All of the land lies at an eleva- 

 tion of from 4,150 to 5,150 feet above 



