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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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sin the world, a hundred feet high andnearly a mile. long. This will makepossible the irrigation of nearly 100,000acres. The Roosevelt dam in Salt RiverCafion, Arizona, will be 240 feet high,stone laid in cement mortar where thesolid cafion walls are only seven hundredfeet apart; and will hold back a lake 25miles long and from one to two mileswide. An ample spillway will providean escape for excessive flood-waters, anda tunnel driven through solid rock willenter the reservoir directly on the bottomand will furnish reinforcement to thespillway and facilitate the discharge ofsediment from the basin. As the wateris allowed to pass down the river, it willbe picked up as needed by the ditchesalready constructed and distributed overthe land. One of the most importantfeatures of this work is the developmentof power, which will be utilized for pump-ing underground waters to augment thesurface-supply available for irrigation. Digitized by Google Uncle Sams Romance with Science and the Soil. 41
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OPENING, JUNK 17th. TRUCKEJB-CAB80N PROJECT. The power developed along the riverwill be transmitted electrically to sub-stations properly located, and then dis-tributed at a lower voltage to pumping-stations so situated as to furnish waterfor irrigation. The estimated cost ofthe dam and power-plants will be about$3,600,000, which will irrigate 200,000acres of land. An interesting circumstance has cometo light in the building of this dam, wherein the basin the government has built alittle city, with its own electric-Kght andtelephone service. It was found that inasking for bids for cement for this workthat the freight-rates were so outrageous,that the government sent out a geologistwho found all the necessary ingredientsfor first-class cement. A cement-millwas installed and Uncle Sam went intothe cement business; and charging thecost of the whole plant against only the first 200,000 barrels, the mill has alreadymore than paid for itself. When therailroads found they did not after all h

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