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discharged them through pipes to vari- 

 ous sections of the dam. The pipes 

 were movable, permitting the spreading 

 of concrete to any point within a given 

 radius. By this method 60,000 cubic 

 yards of material go into the structure 

 each month. One piece of film was 

 made from the Government train which 



The Heroine of the Grand Canyon Film. 

 this charming young lady was the star of the picture story taken 

 for the reclamation service in the grand canyon of the colorado. 



carried us through the big camp and 

 into the steep walled canyon. All the 

 views were impressive as this great 

 structure is to be the most spectacular 

 work ever undertaken for irrigation in 

 this country. It will be 350 feet high 

 and 1,200 feet long on top, and will 

 contain 500,000 cubic yards of material. 

 In Colorado, our views were mostly 

 crop scenes. We were fortunate in 

 being in the Uncompahgre and Grand 



Valleys during the fruit picking season, 

 and excellent orchard views resulted. 



In Montana, the scenes on the Lower 

 Yellowstone and Huntley projects were 

 of crops. The harvesting of sugar beets 

 furnished an excellent subject. 



Encouraged by our successes on other 

 projects, when we reached the Shoshone 

 project in Wyoming, 

 we determined to enter 

 the dramatic field. 

 Accordingly, we devot- 

 ed some time in stag- 

 ing a Reclamation 

 photo play, the char- 

 acters for which we 

 had to seek on the pro- 

 ject. Westerners, you 

 know, are versatile. 

 It was no trick at all 

 to round up the very 

 people we needed, 

 although the full cast 

 called for no small 

 amount of talent. Our 

 drama, founded upon 

 fact, is the story of a 

 settler who takes up 

 a Government farm. 

 The heroine, a school 

 teacher from Illinois, 

 decides to quit her job 

 and ventures into the 

 new West. She. too, 

 locates a farm and hires 

 her neighbor, the bach- 

 elor homesteader, to 

 put it into crops. 

 Through the various 

 steps of making the 

 desert blossom, there 

 runs a vein of romance 

 and a touch of tragedy 

 for the heroine's home 

 is burned down during 

 her absence. The betrothal comes when 

 the young farmer tries to comfort the 

 heroine in her loss. The film, in 

 progressive steps, shows the desert, 

 plowing, levelling, irrigating, seeding, 

 harvesting, and threshing, and in the 

 final chapter, two years later, in the 

 new home, there is a baby. 



These films are to be shown in daily 

 lectures at the Panama-Pacific Exposi- 

 tion and should serve to acquaint the 



