Book Description

Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, 1918-1919 On the Shoshone project in Wyoming certain units Of the project are being operated under public notice, and the project is gradually being extended by the construction Of additional units on the north side of the Shoshone River. The seventh and eighth units were opened to settlement during the fiscal year. The drainage work was continued throughout the year and such work has been uniformly successful. Thesettlers on the project are in 'a prosperous condition. Consideration is being given to plans for the development Of a unit on the south side Of the Shoshone River. Three extremely dry years - 1917, 1918, and 1919 - throughout a large portion of the West have broken all records for drou ht, and many private irrigation projects have suffered for lack of water. The outlook for 1920 appears to be little better. As a result, dry {arrpmg has been a failure and there is much demand for irrigated an s. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.