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The National Geographic Magazine 



From F. H. Newell, U. S. Geological Survey 



Site of Proposed Dam in Gunnison Canyon, Colorado 



The precipitous canyon walls are 2,000 feet high. It has been decided to build a dam across 

 the canyon and then to bore a tunnel through the canyon wall just behind the dam, which will 

 carry water to Uncompahgre Valley. The men who took this photograph were lowered hun- 

 dreds of feet by ropes. See the National Geographic Magazine, January, 1904, page 27. 



The projects already commenced are : 



State. Project. 



Arizona . . Salt River. 



California . . Yuma. 



Colorado . . Uncompahgre Valley. 



Idaho . . . Minidoka. 



Nebraska. . North Platte 



Nevada . . . Truckee- Carson. 



New Mexico . Hondo. 



South Dakota . Belle Fourche. 



The following projects, to irrigate 

 another half million acres, have been 

 approved and will be soon commenced : 



State. Project. 



Montana . . Milk River. 



North Dakota . Fort Buford. 



Do. . . . Buford Trenton) Pump- 

 Do. . . . Bismarck . . j ing. 



Washington , Palouse. 



Wyoming . . Shoshone. 



Oregon . . Malheur. 



The Third Report of the Reclama- 

 tion Service, F. H. Newell, Chief En- 

 gineer, now in press, contains an inter- 

 esting comparison of the relative cost to 

 the public of government and private 



