. Review of reviews and world's work. s of a diversiondam and a large canal thirty-one miles in lengthsuccessfully accomplished it. Truckee Rivernow empties into Carson River, the point ofunion being in a long depression of the valleyof the latter, which has been converted into areservoir with a capacity of 280,000 miles below the reservoir, and above thethree forks of the Carson, another diversion damdirects the combined flow into two large canals,one on each side of the river, which are thefeeders for a distributing system of ditches hun-dreds of miles in length. Under tliese
. Review of reviews and world's work. s of a diversiondam and a large canal thirty-one miles in lengthsuccessfully accomplished it. Truckee Rivernow empties into Carson River, the point ofunion being in a long depression of the valleyof the latter, which has been converted into areservoir with a capacity of 280,000 miles below the reservoir, and above thethree forks of the Carson, another diversion damdirects the combined flow into two large canals,one on each side of the river, which are thefeeders for a distributing system of ditches hun-dreds of miles in length. Under tliese comprehensive plans, flood-waterswhich for ages have passed unutilized into sinksto evaporate now render fertile thousands offarms, while the depressions tliemselves, drainedand laid out into farms, will soon support incomfort hundreds of families. As drainage is almost as essential as irriga-tion in the valley, owing to the quantities ofsalts deposited in the soils of the old lake bed,the river channels in their lower reaches are to. A PIONEERS lUHlOATION ILANT. 704 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REWIEWS.
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