Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-04-21
following schemes undertaken !:

\ Dakota..F Fort Buffort., 6O,OOO 4,so3,O7g Oklahoma ..................... 500 707 $ Dakota. Beliefourche. ...... 6oOOO org 93z Utah h..........U Utah I.ake...... 6OOOO 33s,13C @Wash........Palouse River..1OO,OOO 5,12l ,S63 Wyoming .soshone. ....... 100000 3.234.71s Total al........... .................l O4S,OUU
 Reconstruction postponed.
 PROJECTS APPROVED BY sEC'Y OF INTERIOR.
 Estimated Acres State Projects Cost. Irrigable, Ore. S Calf Klam'h Falls s1,O0O,OOO 263OOO Oregon. Malheur........ 2,250OOO 100000 Montana ....Millx R iver...... 100000 100000 N. Dakota, Bismark ......... - ~ pumping, B-Trenton...... Idaho Pavette- Boise - l3OO,OOO 25OOOO The reason that Kansas and Oklaho- ma have cash on hand for irrigation projects, but no projects under way, is because the country is so flat and the fall of the streams so slight that as yet the Reclamation Department has found no feasible way to get water out of the streams. The idea of installing pump. ing plants is now being considered.
 In addition to the schemes mentioned in the above table there have been sev- eral large private schemes completed within the last year or so, and there are several others in process of construc- tion. Prominent among the completed ones may be mentioned the Imperial Land company scheme, which has put 100000 acres of land suitable for semi tropical fruits in Southern California under cultivation with water taken from the Colorado river, and the Twin Falls scheme of Idaho, which places un- der cultivation 27O,OOO acres of fine fruit and grain land,
 We can see from what has already been done, and what it is possible yet to do, that some or per cent of the Great American Desert may be put un- der cultivation, that only per cent was under cultivation before the passage of the Reclamation Act and that the first series of enterprises will increase the IT, rigable land by 1.054, ,000 acres.
 POSSIBLE CHANGE OF CLIMATE ON THE
 GREAT AMERICAN DESERT
 wish now to call attention to that most interesting question: "Will the reclamation work change the climate of the desert?" Of course this question cannot be definitely answered, or it would not be question; but my tray els on that part of the desert embraced by Inyo county, Cal, and southern Ne vada have shown me that comparatively rapid changes have taken place in the climate of that locality; and fla climate may suddenly change for the worse. ow- ing to evident causes, l see no reason why it should not change for the better if original conditions are restored. For instance, there are countless lake beds some entirely dry and some with little salt water in the bottom, and all of them showing successive beach marks n the perishable soil of the basin sides, registering the gradual drying up of the On one of the beach marks in | he Salton Basin, San Diego county, Jal., may be seen stone fish traps show ng that the Salton desert was fish bearing lake within the time of human of this continent. Near Os- cola, New, one can see a crescent hop9d dike across the lower end of
 rge basin. This was evidently a
 oir built by the ancients. Faint
 'of the old ditches may also be
 shed below the dam. There is
 to reserve nowadays.
 lake in Esmaralda county,
 ,esh water at the upper end
 < water at the lower end.
 eh marks show that at
 Il an outlet to the south
 >it is part salt and part
 e that the process of
 'ghe small amounts
 water contains,