RECLAIMING THE DESERT 



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structures, the organization was forced to continue 

 the large programme, and the money available had 

 to be divided among the projects. It became a piece- 

 meal construction. One of the effects was the re- 

 quest in 1910 for a loan of $20,000,000 to complete 

 the projects more rapidly than the natural incre- 

 ments of the reclamation fund would allow." 



SEQUENCE OF RECLAMATION PROJECTS 



The whole must be seen historically as the out- 

 growth of expansion too rapid to be orderly, there- 



