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From F. H. Newell, U. S. Geological Survey

Site of Proposed Dam in Gunnison Canyon, Colorado

The precipitous canyon walls are 2,000 feet high. It has been decided to build a dam across the canyon and then to bore a tunnel through the canyon wall just behind the dam, which will carry water to Uncompahgre Valley. The men who took this photograph were lowered hundreds of feet by ropes. See the National Geographic Magazine, January, 1904, page 27.

The projects already commenced are :

State. Project.

Arizona. . Salt River.

California. . Yuma.

Colorado. . Uncompahgre Valley.

Idaho. . . Minidoka.

Nebraska. . North Platte

Nevada. . . Truckee- Carson.

New Mexico. Hondo.

South Dakota. Belle Fourche.

The following projects, to irrigate another half million acres, have been approved and will be soon commenced:

State. Project.

Montana. . Milk River.

North Dakota. Fort Buford.

Do. . . . Buford Trenton) Pump- Do. . . . Bismarck . . j ing.

Washington, Palouse.

Wyoming. . Shoshone.

Oregon. . Malheur.

The Third Report of the Reclamation Service, F. H. Newell, Chief Engineer, now in press, contains an interesting comparison of the relative cost to the public of government and private