. St. Nicholas [serial]. ivers must sometimes be takenfrom their beds and directed into other channels;mountains must be pierced with tunnels; hun-dreds of miles of canals and ditches must be a long time the work of irrigating the aridlands was carried on chiefly by States and byprivate companies; but in recent years the Na-tional Government is undertaking to reclaim thedesert. Already Uncle Sam has completed manygreat irrigation projects and has reclaimed vastareas of arid lands. Just the other day he fin-ished the Arrowrock Dam built in connectionwith the Boise irrigation projects in
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ivers must sometimes be takenfrom their beds and directed into other channels;mountains must be pierced with tunnels; hun-dreds of miles of canals and ditches must be a long time the work of irrigating the aridlands was carried on chiefly by States and byprivate companies; but in recent years the Na-tional Government is undertaking to reclaim thedesert. Already Uncle Sam has completed manygreat irrigation projects and has reclaimed vastareas of arid lands. Just the other day he fin-ished the Arrowrock Dam built in connectionwith the Boise irrigation projects in southwesternIdaho. This is the highest dam in the world. Itrises more than 350 feet from bed-rock to parapetwall and it is more than 1000 feet long. Thecost of the dam was about $5,000,000. Behindthe dam is stored the water which comes down into a river from near-by mountains after themelting of the snow and ice. In the summer thegates of the dam will be opened and the waterwill flow down and find its wav through canals. PRINCIPAL IRRIGATION PRUJECIS UNITED ST.\TKS. 56 THE WATCH TOWER [Nov., and ditches to the lands that are to be water will cover about 250,000 acres of ex-ceedingly rich land in the neighborhood of all this land will be opened to settlers onvery easy terms. Indeed the settler may get a
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