The Spirit of missions . A snowdrift thirty feet deep;date, July 12th 938 First Impressions of Wyoming. As the bridges had all been washed away, wto dismiss our driver ut Slater andaerial railway behind containing sufficient water to ir-rigate haK a million acres. The mainditch from this glorious water supply isbeing reinforced with concrete and steelgates, whence the laterals spring. Thewhole construction is of the most perma-nent character. All along the ditch thereis already great activity. Towns arespringing up like mushrooms, but theyhave come to stay. At Powell I wasfortunate enough to s
The Spirit of missions . A snowdrift thirty feet deep;date, July 12th 938 First Impressions of Wyoming. As the bridges had all been washed away, wto dismiss our driver ut Slater andaerial railway behind containing sufficient water to ir-rigate haK a million acres. The mainditch from this glorious water supply isbeing reinforced with concrete and steelgates, whence the laterals spring. Thewhole construction is of the most perma-nent character. All along the ditch thereis already great activity. Towns arespringing up like mushrooms, but theyhave come to stay. At Powell I wasfortunate enough to secure the choicestbuilding lot of the town for church pur-poses, and I have no doubt that within ayear the population will triple and landvalues correspondingly increase. Another great work of thereclamation service is thePathfinder Dam, about fiftjmiles south of Casper. Therea dam 164 feet high has beencompleted across a canonwhich makes a reservoiieighteen miles long, averag-ing six miles wide andeighty feet deep. Thisproject will irrigate 400,000acres in southern Wyomingand western Nebraska. I a
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