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located up and down the sides of every 

 river and stream and around every 

 spring and water hole in the State, so 

 that while Nevada has to-day some 

 60,000,000 acres of public land, there 

 is not a quarter section of it upon 

 which a homesteader could make a liv- 

 ing. The land granted to the State 

 for school purposes disposed of by 

 the State for a mess of pottage con- 

 trols the lands fo the State. 



The government's irrigation plan, 

 when worked out, will immediately 



double Navada's population; it will 

 provide a new life-blood of settlement 

 and citizenship for a region of unsur- 

 passed agriculture. 



This great reclamation scheme for 

 the rebuilding of Nevada is being car- 

 ried into operation by Engineer L. H. 

 Taylor, under the supervision of Fred- 

 erick H. Newell, Chief Engineer of 

 the Reclamation Service. It will af- 

 ford the first practical example of the 

 operations of the new national irri- 

 gation law. 



PROGRESS OF THE SALT RIVER 



PROJECT 



Work Going Forward Rapidly on 

 this Great Reclamation Scheme 



"T" HE town of Roosevelt, Arizona, 

 humming as it is with the activi- 

 ties of it 3,000 inhabitants, is 

 doomed. Its lease on life is onlv 

 three years long. In 1908, when the 

 engineers of the Reclamation Service 

 shall have completed the highest dam 

 in the world, Roosevelt will lie 172 

 feet beknv the surface of the water 

 in the reclamation reservoir. Work 

 has been in progress there for abo;it 

 a year, but men are laboring now, 

 night and day, in three shifts of eight 

 bourse each, in order that no more 

 than three additional years may be 

 consumed in the task. Then Roose- 

 velt will be no more. 



Shut in by mountains as the valley 

 of Salt River is at this point, there is 

 no place else where the men who are 

 constructing the dam for the Salt 

 River reclamation project might build 

 them a city except in the very valley 

 that is destined to be submerged. The 

 town or camp of Roosevelt is situated 

 partly on the flat along Salt River and 

 partly on the hillside above the high 

 water mark of the reservoir. In the 

 lower part of the camp are located the 

 temporary power plant, the commis- 



sary, the corral, the hospital, and the 

 dwelling tents of employees of the 

 Reclamation Service of the United 

 States Geological Survey and of con- 

 tractors working for the Government. 

 In that portion of the camp known as 

 "Roosevelt-on-the-Hill" are the ce- 

 ment mill, an office building, dining 

 hall and kitchen, numerous tent 

 houses, and several frame structures 

 erected for the use of the engineer- 

 ing force and their families. 



Three mail and passenger stage 

 lines connect Roosevelt with the out- 

 side world. The Globe line, which is 

 about 42 miles long, provides a daily 

 stage service from Globe, which has 

 Southern Pacific Railroad connec- 

 tions. By means of the Mesa line, 

 passengers and mail can be be brought 

 to the dam in one day from Phoenix, 

 which is the center of the territory. 

 The route, which is about 60 miles 

 long, runs through the most pictur- 

 esque part of Arizona. Capitalists are 

 even now considering the advisability 

 of putting on an automobile line from 

 Proenix to the dam, of constructing a 

 trolley line between the two points, 

 and of erecting a tourist hotel in the 



