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IN MEXICO'S FARM PLANSCalles Building For Better Conditions • of MexicansBy A. W. FOLGER United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, Jan. 26.—Mexico’s irrigation and land reclamation program is repidly materializing and the development constitutes one of the biggest achievements of. the Calles’ administration! Three projects are already tinder construction and 18 or 20 sites are being investigated by engineers.Hie - government’s extensive scheme for development of agricultural resources is based largely on the plans of the United States Reclamation Service. The purpose is to Bettle the people on their own lands, giving them homes and a livelihood,' to increase the productivity of the soil for the general benefit of the nation and to instruct the peasant class in improved agricultural methods.Construction work has already itarted at Guatimape, Durango, where the existing dam is being strengthened and raised. Canal fonstruction will begin shortly.Oh the Santiago River, about headway, with approximately 700 men being employed. Constructioli camps have been established and a twelve-mile truck road from the station of Pabellon to the main dam site is nearing completion.20 kilometers from the city of Aguascalientes, work is under full The Santiago River project will develop between 50,000 and 75,000 acres of land and should be of immediate benefit to the section which has had some severe crop failures in fecent years.On the Salado River in Nuevo Leon, construction has begun on what is known as the Don Martin Project. Located about 75 miles from Laredo, Texas, the dam will irrigate between 125,000 and 150,-000 acres. A huge earthen dam, some hundred feet in height will be built. The dam will store about 35,000,000,000 cubic feet of water. The land in the section is similar to that on the American side of the Rio Grande River near Laredo.
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Mexia Weekly Herald
Mexia, Texas, US
Wed, Jan 26, 1927
Page 4
Full Page
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University O.
TX, USA 27 Jan 2025
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