Review of reviews and world's work . her likely that in its struc-mechanical and mathematical talent, and had, tural and engineering character it will bewhile a boy, learned the machinists trade and founded upon Mr. Bucks design,served for a time as a journeyman. His sue- Few men leave behind them achieve-cess as an engineer was immediate. For sev- ments so enduring and so magnificent aseral years he was assistant engineer in the those which form a monument to the genius,Croton Aqueduct department, at New York, training, and indomitable courage of thisand from about 1870 to about 1880 he was s
Review of reviews and world's work . her likely that in its struc-mechanical and mathematical talent, and had, tural and engineering character it will bewhile a boy, learned the machinists trade and founded upon Mr. Bucks design,served for a time as a journeyman. His sue- Few men leave behind them achieve-cess as an engineer was immediate. For sev- ments so enduring and so magnificent aseral years he was assistant engineer in the those which form a monument to the genius,Croton Aqueduct department, at New York, training, and indomitable courage of thisand from about 1870 to about 1880 he was simple-hearted and unassuming man, who,variously engaged in the most assiduous con- when he could help it, would never permit astructive work, part of the time in Peru and single word to be said in his praise, and whoa part of it in the service of Western rail- was too much absorbed in his work ever toroads and of the Suspension Bridge Company seek material rewards. The men of his ownat Niagara Falls. profession knew his worth. A. THE EAST, OR GUNNISON PORTAL. UNCOMPAHGRE RECLAMATION PROJECT. WATERING THE UNCOMPAHGRE VALLEY. One of the Governments Wonder-Working Reclamation Projects. BY ARTHUR CHAPMAN. ?\l^HEN President Taft late this sum-mer opens the Gunnison tunnel, onthe western slope of the Colorado Rockies,he will mark the completion of the mostspectacular project undertaken by the Gov-ernment under the Reclamation Act. The Uncompahgre project, as this stu-pendous irrigation feat is known, will re-claim more than 150,000 acres of land inthe Lncompahgre Valley, water from theGunnison River being diverted, through asix-mile tunnel, under a 2000-foot moun-tain, to make the reclamation possible. Theproject is fifth in importance among thetwenty-seven irrigation works begun by theGovernment under the Reclamation Act,figuring the number of acres to be is third in cost, it being estimated that theexpense of constructing the tunnel and thenecessary canals will amo
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