Imperial Valley press., 1909-01-02
ACHIEVEMENTS w EXPLANATION

,fCHIETEHE.N1S LN NATURALIZATION
 In the January number of the Craftsman magazine Forbes Lindsay begins articles dealing with the work of the Reclamation and attempting to sketch the outlines of irr gaon projects generally the United States The opening ar te remarkable chiefly for the nadequacy of the writer's in and less degree for the of some o it's misstatemens
 Purporng mention the principal irrigation enterprises of country the arid regions reclaimed the writer depending obviously upon Reclamation Service for his data oveooks
 y the greatest and most successful reclamation work in Amer the world the Imperial Valley The author ot the ar
 e seems the magnitude of the Reclamation Ser work and emphasizes the fact that it's twenty-five pro ects when in full operation will three million of land that the Imperial Valley project alone will rec aim already has under irrigation 15 900 acres told that the Reclamation Service has dug miles of canal in five but he does not know that there $50 miles of canal in Imperial Valley
 This is what he says about the Yuma project:
 The project in Southern California; involves narabe engineering features the Colorado River of the East India weir being thrown In de- fault solid foundation the vast of masonry will rest up on the sand will be nearly mile in length and will extend four hundred feet and down stream Its weight will be six hundred thousand and it's cost eeQuarters of million dol lars Another extraordinary operation in connection with this project carrying of the Gia River through steel and the Colorado
 One the engineering features mentioned certainly re- markabe extraordinary and that the carrying of the a under the Colorado It remarkable that nobody ever heard dreamed of before The Reclamation Service had notion of carrying of the water of the Colorado under the Ga given that and decided under the Colorado Yuma part of the taken of the river aguna carry the Ga under the Colorado would be indeed though there could be conceivable in performing it.
 Settlers under the Yuma project would be glad know that the of Laga Dam would be only threequarers of mil on it has about double that already and long way from completion they will not be able get much sasac- ton of the figures supplied MT Lindsay by the Reclamation Service.
 What the Reclamation Service will do interesting but the story of irrigation might be made enghenng by the ner information concerning what has been done the desert reclamation and home making by other agencies
 The irrigated Imperial Valley recently the desert of the Colo 390 farms 75000 900 alfalfa; about 100000 head of live stock five cities population of 5000 to 18000 property valued at $10 100000 exclusive of and property of public utility corpora ons 25 school districts employing 52 teachers high schools and college electric light and power factories railroads $50 miles of public road and within few months will have thousands of growing and machinery handle the product All this is the result of bringing water to the land.
 Funny how the Reclamation Service officials forget on these things when they asked to supply data articles irrigation Pure oversight for their gneers have observed carefully the methods of construction adopt ed here and have not been too conceed to learn from the chalmers of Imperial Valley few things about building dams They did believe the Colorado could be stopped by dump ing rock from rees into it's channel and they frankly said the undertaken by Randolph Cory Clarke and Hind to the rverghter the recognition of imitation and did not he tate to adopt the dumping method closing the channel Laguna Dam feN rn