Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico, 1916

Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico, 1916
Identifier: reviewofreviewsw54newy (find matches)
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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Phiil.gr*iih tiy .\menr.n Irt ■* .^vx litUTi AMBASSADOR AND MRS, GERARD (Mr. Gerard returned to the United States last month,for his tir»t vacation since he went to Germany asAmlassadur three years ago) RECORD OF OTHER EVENTS 493
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ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM. IN NEW MEXICO. FORMALLY DEDICATED ON OCTOBER 14(The largest mass of masonry in the world, creating the greatest irrigation reservoir—such in brief is the dis-tinction of Elephant Butte Dam. Situated on the Rio Grande, between Albuquerque, Xew Mexico, and El Paso,Texas, the dam creates a lake forty-five miles long and averaging six miles wide. The crest of the structureforms a roadway across. Nearly 200.000 acres of land in New Mexico, Texas, and old Mexico are watered and re-claimed. In connection with the formal dedication, the Irrigation Congress assembled at the dam and at El Paso) October 20.—WTieat for December deliveryreaches $1.71 f^ on the Chicago Board of Trade,the highest price (with the exception of a cor-ner period) since the Civil War; the demandgrows for an embargo on wheat and flour ex-ports. OBITUARY September 22.—Bishop George W. Peterlcin, ofthe Protestant Episcopal diocese of West Vir-ginia, 76. September 24.—Dr. Joseph Hoeing Kastle, di-

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