Roosevelt Dam Powers Southwest Irrigation Vision
Roosevelt dam on the Salt River in Arizona creates the world’s largest water reservoir to irrigate 2000 square miles. Built at 9.75 million dollars, the 284 foot wall supports a vast power canal delivering 4200 horses of electric power to run mills, quarries, and town lighting, driving a new regional irrigation empire.
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Roosevelt
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Metropolitan Tower
New York
Capitol
Washington
America
Evi
Salt River Valley
World’s Greatest Water Supply Works Raise Arizona Dam
The Salt and Verde river basin irrigation project spans 6,260 square miles with a vast masonry arch dam 284 feet high and 1,080 feet long. Construction uses locally made cement and gravel saved from rock layers, with a cost to divert water around $40,000 and canal systems near $1,000,000. The plan will reclaim 2,000 square miles to create 25,000 farms for about 125,000 people, yielding crops valued $25 to $150 per acre yearly.
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Salt River
America
Roosevelt
Reclamation Service
Death of Goldwin Smith Noted Canadian Educator
The Toronto based professor Goldwin Smith, an English born author and publicist, dies at eighty seven after a fall and fractured thigh. Once influential he spent his final years largely isolated, having opposed Boer War and Canadian annexation while shaping the Canadian Monthly and the Nation.
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Goldwin Smith
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Dominion
Smith
England
Reading
Eton
Oxford
Cornell University
Atlantic
America
Alabama
Toronto University
the Nation
Toronto Week
Toronto Weekly Sun
United States
Canada
Eilers Music Co. Sells Pianos at Wholesale to Retailers
The Eilers Music Co. offers retailers access to large Pacific coast piano lots, enabling prices near factory cost. They ship direct from a Portland warehouse using a patented harness device, cutting freight and handling costs to pass savings to customers. The firm highlights a wide stock including Chickering Autopiano and over forty makes, with low prices and easy terms.
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Pacific Coast
Portland
San Francisco
Oakland
Stockton
Cal
Spokane
Seattle
Tacoma
18Th
Northup Streets
United States
Chickering
Boston
America
Hallet & Davis
Decker
Kimball
Lester
Aberdeen
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Meh
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Roosevelt Dam
Coldwin Smith
Deate
Garber
Guldwin Smith
Eilers Music Co
Eilers
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Gallagher Manager
East Market Street
Emaneker Piano Co
Ediism
Aberdeen Bicycle and Gun Shop
Oswald Bell
Baseball Goods
South C Street
Patterson
General Insurance Agents
A. W. Barkley Wishkah Block
Grand Theater
MR. Louis F. Webba
Miss Della Clarke
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