. Review of reviews and world's work. 13-inch guns, the time limit is 5 minutes. Afew years ago, this time limit would have ad-mitted of but one or, at the most, two record to-day is 11 shots, and scores of 9 or10 shots within the 5 minutes are record for 13-inch gun speed and accuracyis 11 shots and 10 hits. This was made underexceptionally favorable weather conditions inManila Bay. This loading record was equaledduring the recent target practice off Pensacola ;but, owing to the roughness of the sea, there wasa considerable deficiency in point of accuracy. Target practice
. Review of reviews and world's work. 13-inch guns, the time limit is 5 minutes. Afew years ago, this time limit would have ad-mitted of but one or, at the most, two record to-day is 11 shots, and scores of 9 or10 shots within the 5 minutes are record for 13-inch gun speed and accuracyis 11 shots and 10 hits. This was made underexceptionally favorable weather conditions inManila Bay. This loading record was equaledduring the recent target practice off Pensacola ;but, owing to the roughness of the sea, there wasa considerable deficiency in point of accuracy. Target practice is expensive, the cost of eachshot from a 13-inch gun being about $500, butthe public has no cause to grudge the expendi-ture. Such work as our men are doing makesfor peace ; but if our navy is ever again calledinto action, the expenditures made now for tar-get practice will be saved to the nation a thou-sand times over, for upon the efficiency of ourgunners depends to a great extent the safety ofour ships and all that that MAP OF THE TRUCKEE-CARSON IRRIGATION PROJECT, NEVADA. AN OBJECT-LESSON IN IRRIGATION. THE GREAT TRUCKEE-CARSON SYSTEM. BY CLARENCE J. BLANCHARD. (Statistician, United States Geological Survey.) THE national-irrigation movement, which hasbeen steadily growing for several years,finally crystallized into the Reclamation Actpassed by Congress on June 1V, 1902, an act whichPresident Roosevelt declares is one of tlie greatsteps, not only in the forward progress of theUnited States, but of all mankind. The operations of the Reclamation Service, abureau created by the Secretary of the Interiorout of tlie hydrographic branch of the UnitedStates Geological Survey, have expanded rap-idly. Notwithstanding the magnitude of the works projected, the vast area of the countryinvestigated, and the innumerable questions ofdetail, organization, and administration, actualconstruction is now under way on seven largeprojects, and on one of these, in Nevada, hasprogresse
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