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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



May 



outlook, however, the Government 

 seems to have a choice of shipping 

 from the far eastern seaboard or from 

 Europe, or of manufacturing' its own 

 cement. 



The town of Yuma, Ari- 

 forVuma UPP Y zona - nes entirely within 



the lines of the Yuma 

 reclamation project, and at present has 

 an execrable water system. The water 



from its irrigation projects to cities 

 within or adjacent to the irrigated 

 areas, and the citizens of Yuma, by a 

 petition which has been signed by the 

 largest property holders, are urging 

 the town council to make an applica- 

 tion to the Secretary of the Interior 

 for a waer right. This will probably 

 be the first application under the new 

 law. 



Carrying Supplies into Roosevelt, Arizona, before the wagon road was completed. 



is now pumped directly from the river 

 into settling tanks, and from these is 

 distributed through the mains. Only 

 a small part of the town is supplied 

 with filtered water and the price is 

 almost prohibitory. The climatic con- 

 ditions being arid and nearly semi- 

 tropical the town requires a larger pro- 

 portional share of water than almost 

 any other city in the United States. 



A recent act of Congress provides 

 that the Government may supply water 



Co-operative Present indications are 



2 rop . that Western Nebraska 



Experiments . , r ,, r 



is to be one ot the first 



sections to be benefited by the recent 

 arrangement for cooperative crop ex- 

 periments between the Department of 

 Agriculture and the Reclamation Ser- 

 vice. These experiments are to be car- 

 ried on within the limits of or adjacent 

 to areas covered by irrigation works 

 constructed by the Government, and 

 the stockholders of the North Platte 



