What to see in America . Arizona 441 dollars or less an acre. With irrigation it sells for one hun-dred dollars. The vast precipice of masonry known as theRoosevelt Dam, which has been thrown across the narrowsof Salt River Canyon, in a setting of wild mountain gran-deur, is one of the most remarkable engineering works ofour time. The maximum height of this barrier is two hun-dred and eighty feet, and on its crest is a broad drivewaynearly a quarter of a mile in length. Over the spillwaysthunder mighty waterfalls whose clouds of rainbow sprayfill all the lower canyon. On either side rise the g
What to see in America . Arizona 441 dollars or less an acre. With irrigation it sells for one hun-dred dollars. The vast precipice of masonry known as theRoosevelt Dam, which has been thrown across the narrowsof Salt River Canyon, in a setting of wild mountain gran-deur, is one of the most remarkable engineering works ofour time. The maximum height of this barrier is two hun-dred and eighty feet, and on its crest is a broad drivewaynearly a quarter of a mile in length. Over the spillwaysthunder mighty waterfalls whose clouds of rainbow sprayfill all the lower canyon. On either side rise the great cliffs,and if you look up to the higher ledges you see thousands. Salt Ki\kk Pkoject Canal of swallows swarming about their nests, but sometimes scat-tering wildly before the rush of great vultures that swoopdown from the crags. The dam was completed in until four years later, however, did the reservoir fill,thus creating one of the largest artificial bodies of water inthe world. The lake is thirty miles long, four miles wide atits broadest, and is completely walled in by water that the reservoir contains when full could prob- 442 What to See in America
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