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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Mr. Kyle, but when the cost ofpicking and boxing the apples was deductedfrom the gross amount, he had just $1000profit,—exactly the sum offered for the fruiton the trees. ELECTRIC POWER IN ABUNDANCE. These facts would indicate that the Rec-lamation Service experts are not in errorwhen they declare that, within a few yearsafter the opening of the Gunnison tunnel,the Uncompahgre V^alley will be the agri-cultural show place of the country. Theperson who stands at the tunnel outlet, andlets his gaze sweep over the broad, mesa-terraced valley, finds it easy to visualize thescene which has been pictured by the Recla-mation officials. The entire valley will bebrilliantly lighted by electricity, as upwardof 10,000 horsepower will be generated froma series of five concrete drops, forming aseries of dams and giving tremendous waterpower, the fall from the west portal of thetunnel to the Uncompahgre River bed being214 feet. The broad mesas, which stretch,amphitheater-like to the shining Uncom-
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TWELVE MILES OF THIS CANAL WILL CARRY WATER FROM THE WEST PORTAL OF THEGUNNISON TUNNEL TO THE UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER BED. 182 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. pahgre in the center of the valley, will becovered with small ranches. It is estimatedthat the farm unit of the Uncompahgreproject will not be above lo acres, as thisis all the average rancher can care for underthe intensive system made necessary by irri-gation. This means an ideal, closely knitfarming community, in which loneliness willbe an impossibility. Down the length of the valley will beoperated a trolley system, run by power gen-erated from the tremendous flow of waterthrough the Gunnison tunnel. Fruit can-ning factories and other business institutionswill be operated by the same cheap power.Back of the agricultural mesas, with theirhighly developed farms, will stretch a vastgrazing country, over which now rangegreat herds of cattle and bands of sheep.In the distance shine the wonderful SanMiguel Mountains, the highest and mos

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