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and canals amount to 66,749 feet, or more 

 than 12 miles. Today the Service owns 

 and has at work 1,500 horses and mules. 

 It operates 9 locomotives, 611 cars, and 

 23 miles of railroad, 84 gasoline engines 

 and 70 steam engines. It has constructed 

 and is operating 5 electric-light plants. 

 There have been excavated 42,447,000 

 cubic yards of earth and rock. The 

 equipment now operated by the Service 

 on force account work represents an in- 

 vestment of a million dollars. 



This work has been carried on with 

 the following force : Classified and regis- 

 tered service, including Washington of- 

 fice, 1,126; laborers employed directly by 

 the government, 4,448 ; laborers em- 

 ployed by contractors, 10,789, or a total 

 of all forces of 16,363. The expenditures 

 now total nearly $1,000,000 per month. 



As a result of the operations of the Rec- 

 lamation Service eight new towns have 

 been established, 100 miles of branch 

 railroads have been constructed, and 

 14,000 people have taken up their resi- 

 dence in the desert. 



The following is a list of the approved 

 projects on which construction has been 

 commenced. The table shows the ir- 

 rigable area of the projects to the points 

 to which it is expected to carry them 

 during the four years 1908 to 191 1; the 

 estimated cost to complete the work to 

 these points ; the estimated expenditures 

 to the end of the calendar year 1907, and 

 the percentage of completion December 

 31, 1907, based upon the ratios of the 

 expenses to that date to the total esti- 

 mated cost : 



Areas, Cost, Expenditures, etc., on Entire Projects or Such Units as it is Expected to Complete 



by igu . 



Location. 



Arizona 



California 



California-Arizona 



Colorado 



Colorado , 



Idaho 



Idaho 



Kansas 



Montana 



Montana 



Montana 



Nebraska-Wyoming . 



Nevada 



New Mexico 



New Mexico 



New Mexico 



New Mexico-Texas 

 North Dakota 



Montana-North Dakota 



Oregon 



Oregon-California 



South Dakota 



Utah 



Washington 



Washington 



Washington 



Washington 



Wyoming 



Project. 



Salt River 



Orland 



Yuma 



Uncompahgre 



Grand Valley 



Minidoka 



Payette-Boise 



Garden City 



Huntley 



Milk River, including 



Saint Mary. 



Sun River 



North Platte 



Truckee-Carson 



Carlsbad , 



Hondo 



Leasburg 



Rio Grande 



Pumping, Buford-Tren- 



ton, Williston. 



Lower Yellowstone 



Umatilla 



Klamath 



Belle Fourche 



Strawberry Valley 



Okanogan 



vSunnyside 



Tieton 



Wapato 



Shoshone 



Area 

 in acres. 



210,000 



30,000 



100,000 



140,000 



50,000 



160,000 



100,000 



8,000 



30,000 



30,000 



16,000 



110,000 



160,000 



20,000 



10.000 



10,000 



160,000 



40,000 



66,000 



18,000 



r 20,000 



ico, 000 



30,000 



8,000 



40,000 



24,000 



20,000 



100,000 



Estimated 

 cost. 



1,910,000 



$6,300,000 

 1,200,000 

 4,500,000 

 5,600,000 

 2,250,000 

 4,000,000 

 3,000,000 

 350,000 

 900,000 

 1,200,000 



500,000 



3,850.000 



4,800,000 



640,000 



370,000 



200,000 



8,000,000 



1,240,000 



2,700,000 

 1,100,000 

 3,600,000 

 3,500,000 

 1,500,000 



500,000 

 1,600,000 

 1,500,000 



600,000 

 4,500,000 



Estimated 

 expenditure 



to Decem- 

 ber 31, 1907. 



$4,362,100 



16,900 



1,876,700 



2,900,000 



9,750 



1,839,700 



1,381,500 



282,000 



796,400 



314,800 



344,100 



2,797,3°° 

 3,804,600 



579,4°° 

 358,600 

 167,900 



53,2°° 

 519,600 



751,85° 



765,5°° 



1,305,080 



1,281,900 



418,700 



372,180 



481,180 



565,420 



5,220 



2,313,99° 



Per 



cent of 

 com- 

 pletion. 



70,000,000 $30,665,570 



69.2 

 1.4 

 41.7 

 5i-8 

 •4 

 46.0 



46.5 

 80.5 

 88.4 

 26.2 



69.0 



73-° 

 79.2 



81.5 

 97° 

 83-9 

 .6 

 41.9 



64.9 

 69.6 

 36.2 

 36.6 

 27.9 

 74-4 

 3°-7 

 37-6 

 8.7 

 51-5 



An average of $36.65 per acre. 



