WATERING A MILLION ACRES
Bi g Irrigation Project Last May a portion of one miliion acres in the western part of the United States received its initial irrigation water from one of the world's great projects. Grand Coulee Dam of Columbia River Basin irrigation project will supply water to dry I sagebrush land, making it capable of producing farm crops. v When the first water moves into the area it will set off a five-day celebration. One of the events will be a "dawn-to dusk" transformation of 80 acres of dry sagebrush land into a fully developed farm. In a single day , land will be cleared and levelled, crops planted, and an irrigation distribution system put in. A threebedroom house will be completed and fully furnished. Outbuildings will be built, farm machinery installed, and livestock and poultry provided. This farm will be given free to the most wortby wap veteran selected by a board of judges. Federal Reelamation officials pre- 1 dict that in the next 20 years about j 13,000 new farms will be in produc- j tion on these one miliion acres.
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 June 1952, Page 2
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