The Arizona sentinel., 1905-08-09
IRRIGATION PROJECTS
Government Schemes to be Outlined
 at Irrigation Congress.

the Trans Mississippi commer : cial congress, to be held at Port
 land August It to 19, inclusive
 and the National Irrigation Con gross, to be held in Portland August 21-2 24, 1905, 1 desire tt , suggest that you extend a cor , dial invitation to all persons tt , visit the irrigation exhibit of tn, reclamation service. This is To
 cated in the forestry and irriga
 ton building, near the main gov
 ernment building ou the island
 A special building was erected
 for the joint occupancy of the
 forestry service and the reclama-
 ton service, and in this are
 placed models, photographs and
 other exhibits, showing not
 merely the intimate relation ot
 forestry and irrigation, but
 bringing out the magnitude of
 the work undertaken by the gov
 ernment in both of these lines.
 This is the first attempt made
 by the government to exhibit it's 
 operations under the reclama
 ton act of June f7, 1902. In the
 three years which have elapsed since the passage of this act the
 reclamation service has been or ganized, consisting of upwards of 400 engineers, assistants and experts in various lines, each man carefully selected through competitive civil service exami- ration. At the same time sur yeyS have been carried on in all parts of the west, and the rela tive merits of various projects compared. Construction has been pushed forward on the most important of these projects, and contracts involving the expendi- sure of many million dollars have been entered into.
 There is now available in the reclamation fund the sum of nearly $3O,O0Q, 1000. Plans have been made for the expenditure of this amount in fourteen west ern states and three territories. The work is greatly scattered, each project being usually hun dreds of miles from any other similar project, hence great re sponsibility has necessarily been put upon the local engineers in charge. In the three years that have elapsed the great questions of policy have been outlined and works have been designed whose construction will require at least ten years.
 On the 17th of June, the third of the reclamation act, occurred the formal open ing of the first government pro- ject constructed under this law, 1 the Truckee-CarsOn project, by | which 250,000 acres of desert | will be drought under ditch. It is expected that on each succeed ing anniversary of the act at least one large project will be completed and lands opened to public settlement and cultivation
 The principal works now un- der construction or to be begun at an early date, are as follows
 Arizona Roosevelt dam. Con- tract awarded early in 1905 to John M. ORourke & Co.,, Gal weston, Texas. Estimated cost, S1, ,5OO,O00. Power canal, con- structed by Robt. Sherer 6 Co., Los Angeles, Cal, and portions by John Futile, San Francisco, Gal, and is now nearly com Dleted.
 California-Laguna dam Yu- ma Project). Bids were opened June 5th, 1905. Estimated cost, about S1, 100000.
 COlorado-GRnnison tunnel Contract awarded in December, 1904, to the Taylor Moore Con- struction Go. of Hillsboro, Tex as. Length, 30,0oO feet; esti- @ated cost, something over S1z- 200, GOO Canal contracts have also been executed with Knowl-