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its great dam, its hundreds of miles of 

 canals and ditches, will cost about $2,- 

 250,000 and will irrigate 100,000 acres of 

 land. 



At the foot of the Black Hills, in South 

 Dakota, in the valley of the Belle Fourche 

 River, another great work is going for- 

 ward rapidly. This project involves the 

 construction of the highest earthen em- 



verted in canals to water about 85,000 

 acres of very choice land, a large percent- 

 age of which belongs to the government. 

 The cost of the project will be $2,700,000, 

 and it will be completed early in 1907. 



a remarkable; transformation 



In southern Idaho the Minidoka pro- 

 ject, located on the Snake River, em- 



A Cabbage Farm, near Phoenix, Arizona. Five crops are raised each year 



bankment in the world, over 115 feet 

 high, more than one mile in length, and 

 20 feet wide on top. This great dike will 

 create a lake about 20 miles long by 5 

 miles wide and in many places more than 

 one hundred feet deep. The entire flow of 

 the Belle Fourche River will pass into 

 this artificial lake, and will then be di- 



braces about 100,000 acres of sage-brush 

 land. Work is well along on this project, 

 which involves a rock -fill dam across the 

 Snake and many miles of canals. The 

 dam is now within 30 feet of closing the 

 river, and canal lines extend all over the 

 tract. A remarkable transformation has 

 taken place in this section since the com- 



