PROGRESS IN RECLAMATION BISSELL. 
503 
during the fiscal year 1919 the amount of excavation accomplished 
b}^ the Reclamation Service totaled nearly 14,000,000 cubic yards, 
and 575 miles of canals and drains were constructed. Reservoir 
capacity on all projects totals 9,400,000 acre-feet. The following 
table gives a brief summary of the construction work accomplished 
by the Reclamation Service in the 17 years of its existence : 
Summary of construction results to June 30, 1919. 
Item. 
Unit. 
Number or 
quantity. 
STRUCTURES. 
Canals 
Tunnels 
Dikes or levees 
Irrigation and drain pipe. 
Flumes 
Canal lining, concrete 
Roads 
Telephone lines 
Transmission lines 
Canal structures: 
Concrete 
Wood 
Culverts... 
Buildings. 
MATERIALS HAXDIED. 
Excavatiori: 
Earth 
Indui'ated material. 
Rock 
Total. 
Volume placed in dams: 
Masonry 
Earth 
Rock fill and crib . . . 
Total. 
Riprap 
Paving 
Concrete 
Cement 
Miles... 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
Cubic yards.. 
do 
do 
.do. 
-do. 
.do. 
.do. 
.do. 
-...do 
Square yards. 
Cubic yards.. 
Barrels 
10,834 
27 
97 
500 
120 
308 
970 
3,126 
615 
32,722 
64, 423 
7,000 
9,044 
1,374 
154, 473, 487 
9, 913, 065 
8, 409, 722 
172, 796, 274 
2,087,991 
10, 220, 671 
1, 203, 386 
13,512,048 
1, 892, 728 
819, 408 
3,023,446 
2,971,330 
RECLAMATION PROJECT OPERATIONS. 
The Salt River project in Arizona is being operated by the local 
organization of water users under a contract by which the Secretary 
of the Interior on November 1, 1917, turned over the works and the 
income of the large power plants constructed in connection with the 
project. It is in a prosperous condition, and the income from power 
