Our country and its resources; . f the work to thebeginning of the present fiscal yearshows that the service has dug 9,592miles of canals and ditches, and ex-cavated 89 tunnels with an aggre-gate length of more than 25 , earth, crib and rock-lilleddams have been erected with a totalvolume of 12,200,000 cubic yards,including the two highest dams inthe world. The available reservoircapacity resulting is approximately6,500,000 acre feet, or sullicicittwater to cover the States of NewJersey and Delaware to a depth of12 inches. The service has built4,622 bridges with a total length of
Our country and its resources; . f the work to thebeginning of the present fiscal yearshows that the service has dug 9,592miles of canals and ditches, and ex-cavated 89 tunnels with an aggre-gate length of more than 25 , earth, crib and rock-lilleddams have been erected with a totalvolume of 12,200,000 cubic yards,including the two highest dams inthe world. The available reservoircapacity resulting is approximately6,500,000 acre feet, or sullicicittwater to cover the States of NewJersey and Delaware to a depth of12 inches. The service has built4,622 bridges with a total length of19 miles. Its culverts number 5,714and are 36 miles in Length. Thereare now in operation 298 miles ofpipe line and 85 miles of service has built 7M miles ofwagon road, much of it in what wasbefore inaccessible mountain regions ; acres on !!.».017 farms, and the Gov-ernment was under contract to sup-ply water to 1,0SS,003 acres. RESULTS OF RECLAMATION The object of reclamation is homemaking on arid lands—the conver-. tNTERSTATE CANAL. NORTH PLATTEPROJECT. 150 MILES LONG RECLAMATION SERVICE S9 ^^fZT2. y -r 1 ?_ ?•§*• -jcr-5^ •FAT HEN IS AN APACHE AND HARDWORKMAN neering problems involved are thoseof settlement and successful utiliza-tion of the irrigation system andwater supply by the farmers. With-out successful agricultural develop-ment a project may be a failure,regardless of the perfection of theengineering work. The sufficiencyof the water supply and successfuloperation of the irrigation systemare only incidental to the ultimateobject sought by the Government aswell as the irrigator and the successof the undertaking is inseparablyconnected with that of the water IRRIGATION AND CROP RESULTS ON GOVERNMENT RECLAMATION PROJECTS. 1914* Irrigableacreage Irrigatedacreage Croppedacreage Value of Crops Project Total Per aerocropped 187,11260,00014,30052,338 207,000 173,030 25,207 7,354 33,873 64,76718,823 45,730 35,788 17,068 2,201 6,613 5,743 60,532 39,516 12,69
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