1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



475 



that they were unreasonably high. 

 The Secretary of the Interior author- 

 ized the Reclamation Service to prose- 

 cute the work by force account.' 

 Horses for this work will be shipped 

 from the Klamath irrigation project 

 in the southern part of Oregon, as 

 their use at the latter place is not 

 needed during the winter. 



The Secretary of the In- 

 terior has executed a 

 contract with the D'- 

 gineering Company, of Phil- 

 for furnishing and installing 

 machinery for the Buford- 

 irrigation project, North Da- 



Contract 

 for Pumps 



Olier En 



adelphia, 



pumping 



Trenton 



kota. 



The contract calls for the installa- 

 tion of three transformers of 300 kilo- 

 watt capacity, and eight motor-driven 

 pumping units of capacities of 16 and 

 30 cubic feet per second under heads 

 of 50 and 33 feet respectively, with 

 necessary electrical apparatus and wa- 

 ter pipes, in pumping stations near 

 Buford, North Dakota. The D'Olier 

 Engineering Company will receive 

 $40,836 for the work. 



Now that the contract is let and the 

 exact dimensions of the machinery are 

 known, the engineers will determine 

 on the design of the floating barge in 

 which the intake pumps are to be 

 mounted, and labor and material will 

 be secured for the construction of the 

 barge. 



The water supply for this project is 

 from the Missouri River, the slight 

 gradient of which necessitates lifting 

 the water direct from the stream by 

 pumps. No long and expensive canal 

 system will be required. An abund- 

 ance of lignite fuel exists in the vicin- 

 ity and it is proposed to generate pow- 

 er at the mines and transmit it electric- 

 ally to the several pumping stations 

 for the Buford-Trenton ad Williston 

 projects. The first pumps will be 

 placed on floating barges. These 

 will, of course, accommodate them- 

 selves to changes not only in water 

 level, but to the shifting of the stream, 

 the water being conducted from the 



pumps on the barges through pipes 

 with flexible joints, to the main canal. 

 Additional sub-station lifts will be in- 

 troduced wherever required. 



The Secretary of the In- 



Proect St0ne teri r lmS executed a 

 contract with the Pacific 



Coast Construction Company, of Port- 

 land, Oregon, for the construction and 

 completion of the Yellowstone dam 

 and accessory structures, Lower Yel- 

 lowstone irrigation project, Montana 

 and North Dakota. 



This dam is to be a rock-filled, tim- 

 ber-cribbed structure, located about 

 18 miles northeast of Glendive, Mon- 

 tana, for the purpose of diverting the 

 waters of Yellowstone into a canal ex- 

 tending about 80 miles down the west 

 side of the river for the irrigation of 

 67,000 acres of land, two-thirds of 

 which lie in Montana. 



The work requires about 500,000 

 feet of lumber, 700 piles, 1,600 sheet 

 piles, 11,000 cubic yards of rock fill- 

 ing and rip-rap, and 80 tons of steel. 



The contracting company will re- 

 ceive $142,825 for its work, which, 

 according to the terms of the contract, 

 must be completed February 1, 1909. 



The engineers in charge 



Proea UrChe of th . e Belle Fourche ir- 

 rigation project, South 



Dakota, are rushing work all along 



the line, as freezing weather will soon 



force suspension of operations till 



spring. 



The Chicago & Northwestern Rail- 

 way Company has made surveys pre- 

 liminary to connecting their main line 

 with the Government town site. 



There is great difficulty in procur- 

 ing a sufficient force of laborers, and 

 the contractors are put to great ex- 

 pense by being obliged to continually 

 ship in men from Cuba, Denver, and 

 other centers in order to keep the nec- 

 essary number of men on hand to car- 

 ry on the work. The contractors are 

 paying from $2.50 to $2.75 per day 

 for common labor, and the Govern- 

 ment pays $2.20 for eight hours work. 



