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When finished the dam will rise 727 ft. between the canyon walls, will back the river up into a reservoir 115 miles long, two miles wide. The U. S. already owns as part of the undistributed Public Domain the land in Nevada and Arizona on which the dam will rest.* Settlement will have to be made later for upstream private property to be inundated by the new lake. Most interesting to engineers in the construction will be an experiment to hasten the cooling process of concrete by means of a special ammonia refrigerator plant from which ice water will...
About 1900, New York City submerged Katonah under the waters of the Croton Reservoir. The village built up on another site. The tombstones in the village cemetery were abandoned and were taken up by the owner of this newspaper, at that time, to be used for composing stones. When the plant was moved to Mount Kisco, 18 years ago, the stones came with it. They were not discovered until Jan. 5, 1931, when I discovered one which had accidentally been turned up. They make ideal stones for composing...
...grandmother, is discontented with her parochial life, the parochial young men who court her. One day she happens on a gypsy camp, meets a gypsy who is different from all the men she knows. She thinks of him constantly, nearly goes to him, but never does. When a nearby reservoir bursts she is sitting by the river; the gypsy rescues her from the flood and carries her to her room in safety. They keep each other alive through the cold night while half the house is swept away. In the morning, when a rescue party comes, the gypsy has gone...
...Arizona citizens could get water from the reservoir only upon payment of such charges as the Secretary of the Interior fixed, whereas California citizens in the Imperial and Coachella valleys would get water free...
...When his private 100,000,000-gal. reservoir at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. went almost dry, John Davison Rockefeller got permission to tap the Tarrytown water supply...