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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



June 



cut and tunnel. The canal 

 covers the high lands and in- 

 cludes an area about two 

 miles in width above the pro- 

 posed Cody and Salisbury 

 Canal. The main line termi- 

 nates at Eagle Nest Creek, 

 but can be continued on grade 

 to carry water, if necessary, 

 through the gap into Clark's 

 Fork, flowing north into Mon- 

 tana. Smaller lines terminate 

 at the Bad Lands north of 

 Garland, but may be contin- 

 ued to cover other lands, sur- 

 veys of which have not yet 

 been finished. 



The main canal crosses 

 three ravines by means of 

 steel pressure pipes, the de- 

 tails of which are being 

 worked out. Estimates have 

 been prepared showing the 

 feasibility of this form of 

 structure. The canal system 

 as outlined covers 103,000 

 acres, of which about 93,000 

 acres are irrigable, and the 

 surplus water may be used for 

 irrigating lands south of Sho- 

 shone River or taken across 

 the divide into Clark's Fork, 

 as before stated. 



It is probable that a large amount of 

 power will be developed at various 

 points on the canal and utilized for 

 pumping water upon higher lands. The 



DISCHARGING GATES OF A WYOMING RESERVOIR. 



work, dependent on securing title to 

 the land and water and upon all the 

 engineering details being found to agree 

 with the preliminary plans, there seems 

 to be no reason to doubt the early coin- 

 cost of irrigating 93,000 acres of good mencement of this, the first great work 

 land, according to the preliminary esti- of the Reclamation Service in the north- 

 western part of the arid country. 



Engineer Ahern, now in Washing- 

 ton, who has been in charge of the pre- 

 as the plans are so drawn as to permit liminary work on this project, hopes to 

 of the maximum enlargement consist- be able by early spring to put the plans 

 ent with the topography of the country. and estimates in the hands of the board of 

 While the Secretary of the Interior consulting engineers, who will go over 

 has set aside two and a quarter millions these matters on the ground and pass 

 of dollars for the construction of this upon the various structures proposed. 



mates, appears to be within feasible 

 limits. Extension of canal lines will 

 doubtless be made from time to time, 



