1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



519 



feet title to the property which it de- 

 sired to sell. Until proper abstracts 

 of title were presented to the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior of course no pur- 

 chase could be consummated. The re- 

 tention of 10 per cent of the purchase 

 price by the Government is only pend- 

 ing the perfection of title to a small 

 portion of the property. 



Another difficulty encountered in 

 the construction of this project was 



possible before severe weather sets 

 in, and with this idea in mind have 

 put every available man, including the 

 carpenters, on the concrete work. 

 Twenty-five hundred cubic yards were 

 laid during the month of October. 

 There was one week of continuous 

 stormy weather, and during the en- 

 forced idleness sixteen laborers left 

 the camp. The labor problem does not 

 improve, and on this account only half 



Tule Lake, Oregon'and California; the future site of 1,000 farms of 80 acres; to be drained 

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



the lack of transportation facilities. 

 Railroad men have about completed 

 arrangements for the extension of a 

 line into the basin, and indications point 

 to a remarkable development in this 

 section in the near future. 



The Pathfinder 

 Dam 



The contractors on the 

 Pathfinder dam, North 

 Platte irrigation project, 

 Wyoming-Nebraska, are making every 

 effort to get the masonry as high as 



the capacity of the plant for laying 

 masonry was reached during the 

 month which has just come to a 

 close. 



Work on the Interstate canal and 

 lateral system was also somewhat de- 

 layed by stormy weather and the in- 

 ability to obtain men and teams, but 

 fair progress was made. Concrete 

 work for the seven lateral outlets on 

 the first 45 miles of canal were com- 

 pleted and rye was sown on the em- 



