Facts, figures and pictures about the city of Yuma and the 150,000 acres of valley and mesa lands along the Colorado River which is being reclaimed by the Reclamation Service under the "Yuma Project," the greatest farming country in the world now in the making.

(Yuma): (Morning Press Sun), (1915). First edition. Octavo. [24] pp. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's light orange wrappers with lettering in black and red and a view of the 'New Highway Bridge'. A very good copy with no faults.After the passage of the Reclamation Act by the US Congress in 1902, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation began constructing the dam under the Yuma Project in 1903. This project was the first development of the U.S. Reclamation Service along the Lower Colorado River and featured the Laguna Diversion Dam, a pumping station and a series of canals. By December 1908, the water bypass around the dam was complete and workers began to pour the rock-fill. Three large concrete walls supported by 6-inch sheet-wood pilings were built across the river for the dam's foundation. Rock-fill was placed in between and on the outsides of these walls for support. The California sluiceway consisted of three iron gates while the Arizona sluiceway had one. Mexican-Americans mostly worked on the dam as well as a fdew Native Americans. Skilled laborers worked in the cooler months. The Laguna Dam's (pictured herein) design and size made it a peculiar structure for the time. The dam, a weir, was merely 43 ft. tall, almost two-thirds of which were built below the riverbed. Subsequently, the dam only raised the river ten feet. Modifications to the dam's downstream talus were done between 1923-1924. This pamphlet was reprinted in 1921.