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through this dike, it will be possible to 

 drain nearly the whole of Lower Kla- 

 math Lake, exposing many thousands of 

 acres of rich tule lands, which will also 

 be brought under irrigation from the 

 main canals. While exceedingly unique, 

 all of the engineering features are com- 

 paratively simple and the average cost 



favored with an equable climate and fer- 

 tile soil and a most progressive people, 

 one of the largest of these irrigation pro- 

 jects has just been approved. Bids are 

 now being advertised for the first units 

 of this project, involving the expenditure 

 of $1,300,000. In its entirety the pro- 

 ject provides for the reclamation of 



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per acre is the lowest of any of the pro- 

 jects so far approved. The climate of 

 this section is temperate, the soil is fertile, 

 the products include alfalfa, all of the 

 cereals of the temperate zone, vegetables, 

 deciduous fruits, etc. The Klamath 

 basin is situated about equally distant 

 frmn San Francisco and Portland. 



In the pleasant valleys of the Layette 

 and Boise rivers in Idaho, a region 



372,000 acres of land, mostly in Boise 

 Valley, an area equal to twice the culti- 

 vated acreage of Rhode Island. The 

 canal systems now in operation and irri- 

 gating about 100,000 acres are to be made 

 a part of the project and utilized as 

 feeders or laterals. Great dams in both 

 the Layette and Boise rivers will hold 

 back the floods, and by a long canal, a 

 portion of which passes through a deep 



