IRRIGATION.
AN IMMENSE RESERVOIR. United Press Association—By Electric • Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 20, 8.5 a.iu.) VANCOUVER, March 19. Mr Theodore Roosevelt opened a great storage dam at Arizona, namsd after himself, in connection with the Salt River irrigation project. It forms a reservoir twenty-five miles long, and is capable of irrigating 250,000 acres. The promoters of the project expect to make the valley the most fertile in America.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10107, 20 March 1911, Page 2
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