The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-09

tunnel there, Then road was made,
leading down into the frightful gorge
road good enough to carrv heavy
built. town established and named
River Portal, This town, like others
built by the service, has free reading
room, hospital and good school
Through this ai1-milc tunnel the water
Will pass under a high divide and bring
riches to a. great valley which has been
lying there for hundreds Of centuries,
Id!y waiting for water to bring 1t into
The 6rst fruits of the national recla-
NATION service ripened in Nevada.
where on June II. 1905, the third ami.
versary Of the Reclamation Act, the
Iruckee Carson Canal was thrown open
This canal is thirty one miles long and
diverts water from Truckee river to
the channel of Carson river. where a
Is now ready for delivery through sew
eral hundred miles of lateral bitches
to about $4,000 acres, 10000 of which
are public lands open to Homestead
entry An assessment of S26 An acre
is made against this lnnd for water
rights, payable in the ten annual in.
stallments allowed by the reclamation
scheme. When the Truckee- Carson
project is finally complete, 35o,O00
In Montana, RS in Arizona, the In
dians are aiding the work Of conquer
are being employed on the Milk river
project, which proposed to redeem a
tract of a quarter of a million acres
between Havre and Glasgow, Montana,
| In addition to regulating the flow of
Milk river, the water supply will he
supplemented from St. Mary's lakes.
The water will be stored and then con-
! Quoted through canal. twenty six
miles long to the headwaters of Milk
river, This is but one of several Mon
tana irrigation projects now under way,
New Mexico has held a public terri.
torrial celebration in honor of the ad,
vent of the Federal reclamation work
money having been appropriated by the
! Legislature for that purpose. Here in
the Pecos river valley irrigation works
were constructed by private enterprise
| Although the construction was imper'
| feet, the water was carried to the land
and it's wonderful fertility fully demon
strated. The country became famous
for it's fruit within a few years. Then
! and swept away a large portion of Av.
| alon dam. running the whole irrigation
system, An appeal to the general Gov
ernment was made, and the response
was ready. The work Of reconstruction
was taken up and water ls now being
served. The defects of the old system
were remeded. and there is now assur'
ance of water supply every year
! The Yuma project in Southern Calltor
MIA and Arizona has been the subject
of q Presidential message to Congress
1t Will add much to the wealth of the
egypt of America Other projects
arc under way which will redeem large
| sectious of the country.
When the twenty-five irrigation sys
tens now under way are completed. sno
the thirteen yet in abeyance are taker
up and finished, this work will have
added 10 the crop-produclug area OF
| the country, lands equal in extent 4
the improved farm acreage in The
States of Massachusetts, Connecticut
Vermont and Maine. This is one way
| of annexiug new territory that VIII hnc
no political opposition.
Or these irrigated lands the elemenn
of chance is removed from the pursu,
of agriculture. The farmer knows eX
actly what water supply he VIII nave
exactly when lie will plant hrs crops
and exactly when 10 expect his mar
vest. There is no problem of u too we
spring or a too dry summer. On thes'
vast tracts Of the arid West. being
won from the desert by the ENERGY ant
genius of the American engineer, agr1
| culture will become a science almost a
| exact as mathematics.