560 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



December 



8. New Mexico Hondo 



9. North Dakota Fort Buford 



10. South Dakota Belle Fourche 



11. Wyoming Shoshone 



10,000 



60,000 



85,000 



125,000 



1,050,000 



In addition to the above, the fol- 

 lowing projects have been approved: 



State. Project. Acres Irrigable. 



1. Oregon Klamath 236,400 



2. Montana Milk River 60,000 



*Buford Trenton 18,000 



*Bismark 15,000 



Okanogan 10,000 



3. North Dakota 



4. North Dakota 



5. Washington 



239.400 



*Pumping. 



Thus far, as shown above, projects 

 have been approved for thirteen out 

 of sixteen states and territories men- 

 tioned by the reclamation law, and 

 construction is under way in eleven of 

 them. 



In several other states operations 

 are at a point where advertisements 

 for bids only await the removal of cer- 

 tain legal obstacles, the settlement of 

 international difficulties, or the termi- 

 nation of delays on the part of local 

 organizations or individuals. 



SECONDARY PROJECTS. 



In most of the states examinations 

 have been made of all possible pro- 

 jects, and after one of these has been 

 selected as the primary project for 

 immediate construction, surveys have 

 been continued of the secondary pro- 

 ject, to be taken up on the completion 

 of the first, or earlier, if for any cause 

 the first project fails through any de- 

 fect. 



It is important to obtain systemati- 

 cally full facts concerning the water 

 supply through several years, to make 

 borings for foundations, and to pre- 

 pare plans and discuss them thor- 

 oughly, so that the secondary projects 

 can be taken up in the future with 

 more complete knowledge than was 

 possible in the first projects. 



The Reclamation Service is con- 

 stantly being importuned to make sur- 

 veys in all parts of the country and ex- 

 pend the money broadly. The time 

 has arrived, however, when it is nec- 



essary to limit general surveys, as 

 there is not money in the fund to con- 

 struct more than one or two projects 

 in each state or territory, and general 

 surveys will lead to expenditure with- 

 out present adequate return. 



DEVELOPMENT OF POWER. 



One of the important features in the 

 evolution of irrigation work is the de- 

 velopment of power, which the nu- 

 merous dams and drops in canals make 

 possible. 



Plans were made to transmit the 

 power being developed in many sec- 

 tions of arid regions, by means of elec- 

 tricity, to points more or less distant, 

 there to be used for raising under- 

 ground waters, pumping water lying 

 above the line of gravity canals, or for 

 various other purposes, and attention 

 was also given to the character of 

 soils and of water to be used upon 

 them, the materials used in the con- 

 struction of the works, and numerous 

 other details incident to reclamation 

 by irrigation. 



FINANCES. 



In a work of the magnitude of that 

 authorized by the Reclamation act, it 

 is highly important to forecast the fu- 

 ture in so far as past experience can 

 aid in doing so, and to estimate as 

 closely as possible the probable re- 

 sources and liabilities that may be an- 

 ticipated. A summary of the receipts 

 from the sales of public lands in the 

 reclamation states and territories for 

 the ten years preceding the passage of 

 the act shows that the maximum 

 amount which would have been cov- 

 ered into the reclamation fund in any 

 one year, had the act been in force, 

 was $3,185,000, and the minimum 

 $1,085,000, the average being $2,095,- 

 ooo. 



Following the passage of the act of 

 June 17, 1902, there was a great rush 

 to take up land and a corresponding 

 increase in the annual amounts avail- 

 able for the work of reclamation, but 

 this condition cannot be expected to 

 continue. The estimate for the future, 

 as given in the last quarterly state- 



