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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



April 



viting. The irrigation system will be 

 completed in 1907 and more than a 

 thousand farms will be under cultiva- 

 tion. Such a farm population will cer- 



the Government for municipal and 

 manufacturing purposes, the towns 

 should make rapid and substantial 

 progress. Everything predicates the 



A Chicago " Kid " Reporter's Enterprise at Heyburn, Idaho. 



tainly provide for a prosperous future success of the Minidoka country and 

 for these towns. With almost unlim- its early development into a model 

 ited electric power at the disposal of agricultural community. 



THE RECLAMATION SERVICE 



Progress of National Irrigation 

 Work During the Past Thirty Days 



Reclamation Commendable progress 



yy T . . is being made on the na- 



Cahtornia ..... , 



tional irrigation works 



in California. On the Klamath project 

 the Secretary of the Interior has for- 

 mally approved the contract between 

 the Klamath Water Users' Association 

 and the United States. This is a rati- 



fication of the plans for constructing 

 the Klamath project and involves the 

 ultimate irrigation of about 250,000 

 acres of land.. The amount equals the 

 total irrigated area in southern Cali- 

 fornia proper. Construction contracts 

 amounting to approximately $400,000 

 have been signed and construction 



