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dams on the Truckee and Carson rivers, 

 the former no feet in height, are beauti- 

 ful and finished products of modern en- 

 gineering. There has been no disposition 

 to save on cost at the expense of this 

 work. The government must maintain 

 these structures for ten years, and it is 

 building them so that when it turns them 



$9,000,000 and will render productive 

 more than 400,000 acres of land now ab- 

 solutely worthless, but which, irrigated, 

 will readily sell for $30,000,000. 



the; salt river project in Arizona 



In the land of mystery, of lost races 

 and hoary ruins, in the warm and sunny 



Government Sawmill in Arizona, built by the U. S. Reclamation Service, 

 of feet of lumber have been cut for the Government work 



Millions 



over to the people they will get their 

 money's worth. 



The long lines of canals, many of them 

 large enough to carry rivers, are lined in 

 places with cement, and obstacles in the 

 route, such as hills, are tunneled and the 

 tunnels are cement-lined. When com- 

 plete this project will cost more than 



valley of Salt River, we find one of the 

 greatest engineering works in the world 

 now well under way. Many miles above 

 the valley, in what was once an almost 

 inaccessible region, peopled only by the 

 murderous Apache and the old-time out- 

 law, the Salt River and its tributary, 

 Tonto Creek, emerge from the canyon 



