Review of reviews and world's work . feet less than the capacity of the Ashokanreservoir now being constructed by the City ofXew York. Its province will be to hold overwaters from years of plenty to groups of yearsof extreme drouth, such as occur only three orfour times in a century. An artesian well dis-trict, approaching fifty miles in length, has beenoutlined by well borings in the floor of OwensYallev. This water can be conserved for thesame purpose. Fifty miles below this Long Valley reservoirsite, the main canal, with a capacity of qoocubic feet per second and a width of sixty-fivefeet o
Review of reviews and world's work . feet less than the capacity of the Ashokanreservoir now being constructed by the City ofXew York. Its province will be to hold overwaters from years of plenty to groups of yearsof extreme drouth, such as occur only three orfour times in a century. An artesian well dis-trict, approaching fifty miles in length, has beenoutlined by well borings in the floor of OwensYallev. This water can be conserved for thesame purpose. Fifty miles below this Long Valley reservoirsite, the main canal, with a capacity of qoocubic feet per second and a width of sixty-fivefeet on the bottom, diverts the river and varioustributaries as they are passed, discharging intothe Haiwee reservoir sixty miles below the in-take. This 900 second-foot canal will carry allordinary summer flood waters caused by themelting of the snow. The Haiwee reservoir,with a capacity of 64,000 acre feet, will regulatethese flood waters into a uniform How of 400cubic feet per second, or 258,000,000 gallonsdaily.—a truly vast lilt V. 11 I I I I P I ! llll. AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS The fust twenty miles of the canal, situatedin the moisl artesian land- of wens Valley, isbeing excavated l»\ hydraulic dredges, andforms pra nut lined. A large number of springs occurin tin- Boor i tin- valley, which will augmentthe flow in this a. I r the next forty miles to the Haiwee reservoir, the canal isconcrete-lined, but not covered. Ik-low theHaiwee reservoir to the suburbs I Vngeles,the aqueduct will he completely lined andcovered with concrete. This portion skirtsalong the eastern base of die Sierra Nevadas,( rossing the extreme western arm of the Mo-jave desert near the town of Mojave, and thenpasses under the* oast range with the ElizabethTunnel, yi miles in length and sixty milesnorth of the city. 1! \\l I IM. I Ml sll RR IS For fifty miles, in this part of the aqueduct,the line is forced into regions of great topo-•_;r;i|>liH severity alo
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