iK)8 RECLAMATION SERVICE 



ever, is in" -ati^factory depth, and is eration, thus insuring ir the 



of fine quality for growing all kinds of thi> project one of tin- most ;i 



of farm crops common to a latitude pensive and prrniain nt water \><>\: 



500 miles south of this. The climatic in the entire \\V-t. The power thu- 



C'Uiditions in the Shoshone hasin are made available will helon: < 



controlled largely by the mountain to the irrigat'r> tiling u the land-, 



ranges which entirely surround the the receipts fmm thi power 



Shoshone and Big Horn basins. The going naturally fir-t {<* defray the < 



snowfall, like the rainfall, is very lim- of maintaining and operating the irri- 



ited. The weather conditions are in- gation works; and a> d< powei 



dicated by the fact that building work utilized it should, and undoubtedly 



on reinforced concrete structures has will, yield a substantial annual i 



been carried on continuously through- enue, probably more than -ufticient t<> 



out the entire winter. operate and maintain the entire canal 



system. 



Coal and There are abundant coal The Shoshone reservoir n-w under 



Oil Deposits measures within team- construction, when completed, re. 



ing distance of the irri- lating as it will the entire di-clur 



gated lands. A coal mine has been of the north and south forks of the 



opened within the area served by the Shoshone River, will provide water 



Frannie extension of the Garland sufficient to cover 400,000 acres .f 



canal. Also oil, in commercial qtian- land three feet in depth each year. The 



tities, has been developed in the vicin- Garland canal, now under construc- 



ity. The oil has a paraffin base, and tion, is only one of four main canals 



can be refined for illumination. which may ultimately be built. 



There is not a wooden structure on 



Richness Power for all purposes the entire project. The Shoshone 

 p Water will be available in dam, the highest masonry dam in tin- 

 great quantities from world, will be of concrete masonry, 

 the Shoshone dam. Practically all the The Corbett diverting dam is of c<'ii- 

 water to be impounded into the reser- crete masonry reinforced with steel 

 voir will be discharged under a pres- bars. This structure has an overflov 

 sure of 240 feet. Two 42,-inch cast- weir 400 feet long, with a capacity t> 

 iron pipes are being placed in the base handle twice the greatest flood ev< 

 of the dam for immediate power gen- known in the Shoshone Kiver. 



ONIONS AS IRRIGATORS 



While it is unquestionably true that ir 

 rigation water in general must come from 

 wooded mountain slopes, it appears this 

 is not absolutely the only sour. \ 



farmer in Ohio has made a discovery 

 that will be of vast importar farm- 



ers during a dry season. He has found 

 that when onions and potaturs arc plant- 

 ed in the same field in alternate rows 

 the onions, being so strong, brin^ 

 to the eyes of the potat" i*'h vol 



times that the roots of the vi; 

 moist and a big crop is raised in 

 of the drought. 



