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THE KECLAMATIOX OF THE WEST. 



In California, over the State line from Nevada, are opportunities for 

 water storage. In the mountains are little valleys in which water can 

 be held. It is impossible for Nevada, as a State, to utilize these reser- 

 voir sites, as it can not go across the State line. The National Gov- 

 ernment is alone capable of doing this work. 



A dam put across Carson River near its lower end will flood back 

 the water and make an immense reservoir capable of supplying sev- 



Fiw. G.— Map of irrigaifil and irrigablL' lands— irrigated areas in blaelj, irrigalle areas dotted.' 



eral hundred thousand acres of land which is now- absolutely desert 

 and almost impossible to cross. 



The interstate character of these problems of reclamation is exceed- 

 ingly complicated. The Kio Grande, rising in Colorado and flowing 

 through New Mexico, forms the boundary between Texas and Mexico: 

 the Arkansas rises in Colorado and flows through Kansas. Oklahoma. 

 Indian Territorv, and Arkansas; the South Platte and North Platte 



