THE KLAMATH PROJECT 



An Immense Reclamation Scheme in California and 

 Oregon Combining Irrigation and Drainage Works 



BY 



H. L. HOLGATE 



U. S. Reclamation Service. 



IN the rock of rough marble the 

 A sculptor saw an angel. His prac- 

 tised hand chiseled away the imprison- 

 ing stone, revealing to the world a 

 figure of beauty. With an equal pre- 

 scient eye the United States Reclama- 

 tion Service sees in the Klamath 

 plateau of Southern Oregon and 

 Northern California, a land of thous- 

 ands of prosperous farm homes, and 

 with equal skill the engineers of the 

 service will reveal the agricultural pos- 

 sibilities of this undeveloped region. 



Under the Klamath Project, the offi- 

 cial name of this irrigation scheme to 

 be constructed by the government, 

 lie 250,000 acres of irrigable land. 

 About 145,000 acres are in private 

 ownership and 105,000 acres are 

 government lands. The public lands 

 will be subdivided into tracts averag- 

 ing 80 acres in extent, and under the 

 law the private lands must be sub- 

 divided into farms not exceeding 160 

 acres under one ownership. The 

 average size of all the farms will prob- 



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Tule Lake, Oregon and Calitornia; the future site lor 1000 farms of 80 acres each. To be 

 drained and irrigated as part of the Klamath project by the U. S. Reclamation Service. 



