Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-14
SIXTY MILLION
 DOLLARS INTO RECLAMATION
Story of Wonderful Work Done Within the Last Five Years by the Government in the West.

WASHINGTON D. C., July 13.-lt was in Nevada. on June IF, 1905, that the first project of the United States reclamation services was begun Since then the work has extended to twenty six projects involving a cost to date of $60, ,000. 900.
 Tn seven and one-haf years of its work the service has built APIS miles of canal. !" writes C. J. Blanchard in the National Geographic magazine Placed end to eud the canals would rach from Washington to Los Ang, les and back to New Orleans. Sever al of them carry whole rivers of water.
 Tt has excavated seventeen miles of tunnels Below the close of 1910 il will have completed four of the high est dams in the world. Its excavations of rock and earth amount to the en- ormous total of 60 1000, 900 cubic yards. It's roads have a total length of AT miles: telephones. 1.127 miles; levees, 70 miles
 Tt has purchased 915,751 barrels of cement and has manufactured in it's own mill 340,00O barrels. As a result of it's work water is available for 75O,- 900 acres on 13,O00 farms.
 The gross value of crops produced on the lands irrigated by the goveern- ment in 1910 was S14,03S,000. As result of the work of this government it is estimated hat land vaules have increased msne than s105. 5.S0O. 900"
 These crops tone year only) and Increased land values amount to about S120, eco 600. or double the cost of the entire twentEsiX projects, to date.
 The reclamation service is enter ing 1910 with money (2O,00O.000 just authorized by oongress) and plans for completing most of its larger and un- finished masonry structures. and with about three quarters of a million acres Of arid land under irrigation. from which increasing crops will be produc- ed each year.
 Tt will finish this year the great R00seNSlt dam in Arizona, near PhOe nix, one or ccha most massive in the world. It has completed ccAAa Shoshone dam in northern Wyoming the high est structure of it's kind ever built; the Pathfinder dam in southern Wyom- ing. and he LagIna dam at Yuma Arizona. It win for the first time uti- ike the GiunisUn tunnel whose com pletion was celebrated by President Taft last summer
 Reviewing the history of the recla nation service as a whole. its max imum activity and expenditures were in the year TsO7 In 1902 the expendi- lures were less than S1O0,000 and 1903 less than s100O.OO0
 Tn 1894 they were s2,5OO.O00 in 1905 s5,00O,000. in 1906 a little less than sTe0OO.000 and in 1907 nearly 14,000600. Then the expenditures de creased to s1,00O,OoO in 1908. to about ss.OOo,60O in 1909. and in 1910 they may be a little under ss. COG, 900 plus probably some more out of the s2O,OOO0OO just appropriated for use as needed.
 | At this writing approximately S24. | rVFsNNt Ao Atk AAt AAtdSulN O4 L- jhlLeu states Gnculding the recently author ized borrowing of 2O,oOO.000J gradual ly available for the work
 Moneys received for the service from outside sourcesc so far, are: , Town lot sales co. ..S 103,67l Miscellaneous sales, water.
 rentals, etc. (including
 the electric power sold for
 use at Phoenix, ArizOna) ..1,694,S45 Collestion On water rights S14,145 Iotal ... .-. .-.S2 ,6l2.66i This does not include any of the money collected for certain water rights amounting to about ST 900 900 which were due and payable April l, 1910
 Valuable to the west in the present and still more. far more. valuable ir the future will be the work so ably done by the United States reclama tion service.