THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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A summary of the work of the Reclamation Service to 

 January 1 shows that it has dug 1,267 miles of canals, or 

 nearly the distance from Washington to Omaha. Some of 

 these canals carry whole rivers, like the Truckee river in 

 Nevada and the North Platte in Wyoming. The tunnels ex- 

 cavated are forty-seven in number, and have an aggregate 

 length of l /2 miles. The service has erected 94 large struc- 

 tures, including the great dams in Nevada and the Minidoka 

 dam in Idaho 80 feet high and 650 feet long. It has com- 

 pleted 670 headworks, flumes, etc. It has built 376 miles 

 of wagon road in mountainous country and into heretofore 

 inaccessible regions. It has erected and in operation 727 

 miles of telephones. Its own cement mill has manufactured 

 70,000 barrels of cement, and the purchased amount is 312,- 

 000 barrels. Its own sawmills have cut 3,036,000 feet B. M. 

 of lumber, and 6,540,000 feet have been purchased. The sur- 

 veying parties of the service have completed topographic sur- 

 veys covering 10,970 square miles, an area greater than the 

 combined areas of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The 

 transit lines had a length of 18,900 linear miles, while the level 

 lines run amount to 24,218 miles, or nearly sufficient to go 

 around the earth. 



The diamond drillings for dam sites and canals amount 

 to 47,515 feet, or more than nine miles. Today the service 

 owns and has at work 1,154 horses and mules. It operates 

 9 locomotives, 223 cars and 23 miles of railroad, 39 stationary 

 and 27 steam engines. It has constructed and is operating 

 five electric light plants. This work has been carried on with 

 the following force : Classified service, 380, including Wash- 

 irgton office; laborers employed directly by the Government, 

 3,500 ; laborers employed by contractors, 6,100, or a total of 

 ali forces of 10,000. The expenditures now total nearly 

 $.1,000,000 per month. As a result of the operations of the 

 Reclamation Service eight new towns have been established, 

 100 miles of branch railroads have been constructed, and 

 10,000 people have taken up their residence in the desert. 



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