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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



able and construction is approved by 

 the department, the extension of the 

 canal can be made in a comparatively 

 short time. This project contains 

 about 800 farms of which 500 are en- 

 tered and the remaining 300 are ready 

 for farmers. 



Arizona 



Construction work has begun on 

 the second railway to be operated by 

 the government in the United States. 

 The new railroad is being laid on the 

 top of the levees constructed by the 

 Service to protect the Yuma valley 

 lowlands from the floods of the Colo- 

 rado river. Its purpose is mainly for 

 the transportation of the rock and 

 machinery which are required to re- 

 pair and strengthen the levee system, 

 but it will also be utilized by the farm- 

 ers of the lower valley to market 

 their products and bring in their sup- 

 plies. The line will be about 21 

 miles long, connecting with the South- 

 ern Pacific at Yuma, and it will be 

 operated exclusively by the Service. 

 One other railway only in this coun- 

 try is exclusively owned and operated 

 by the government. The Arrowrock 

 Railway in Idaho, 19 miles in length, 

 was built several years ago and is 

 doing a regular freight and passenger 

 business. 



Idaho 



The Secretary of the Interior has 

 approved the form of contract be- 

 tween the United States and the 

 Nampa Meridian Irrigation District, 

 Idaho, which had previously been in- 

 formally adopted and accepted by the 

 board of directors of the district. The 

 contract provides for the construction 

 of certain drainage canals in that dis- 

 trict as a part of the proposed drain- 

 age system of the Boise project, and 

 in general is similar to the contract 

 with the Pioneer Irrigation District. 



In Other Lands 



Water is now being delivered to a 

 large part of the 3,000,000 acres under 

 the Bassano irrigation system, which 

 extends from Calgary, Alberta, to 

 Medicine Hat. For the past three 

 years the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 has been busily engaged in complet- 

 ing this immense project, which was 

 begun many years. ago by the Domin- 

 ion Government of Canada and was 

 abandoned because of lack of funds. 

 The system represents an expenditure 

 of $17,000,000. no little part of which 

 is represented in the dam across the 



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