The Harvester World: Volume 7, number 4, April 1916

              The great Government Dam in process of construction near Elephant Butte, N. M., which when completed will control waters for the irrigation of some 200,000 acres in the Rincon and Messilla Valleys. The soil in this district is said to be the richest in the world with the exception of the Nile Valley in Egypt.   Denver territory
We have one trucking aisle clear around the ware¬ house, which does away with the numerous side and short aisles.

The line of the aisle should be drawn midway between the first and second posts or supports. You will find that this line will usually be about twenty-two and a half feet from the outside wall, the aisle to extend to the second post.
The space around the outside of the building should be used for storing machines of which you carry a heavy stock, such as binders, mowers, rakes, wagons, drills, etc.
The center space is to be reserved for small lots where the variety is great, such as engines, cream separators, etc.
The advantages of laying out warehouses in this man¬ ner are minimum travel in trucking, and minimum wall space for any particular lot of machines.
This same plan of laying out a warehouse can be fol¬ lowed in any of our warehouses with slight modifica¬ tions to meet local conditions.
THE ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM PROMISES TO TURN
A LARGE PART OF NEW MEXICO INTO
A SECOND NILE VALLEY

By Hugh McKenna, General Agent, Denver, Colorado
The Elephant Butte dam, taking its name from the Elephant Butte mountain which can be seen in tlie background in the picture on this page, has been in pro¬ cess of building for five years and is now nearing com¬ pletion. It is what is known as a " straight-away" dam, and is said to be the largest one of its type that has ever been constructed in the world. It is 600 feet wide at the base, 1,600 feet wide at the top, 200 feet thick at the base, and when completed will have a height of
302 feet with a width at the top of thirty feet. Although the dam is being constructed almost entirely of con¬ crete, twenty per cent of its mass consists of boulders to give it weight.
This one of the largest, if not the largest, irrigating projects in the world, will mean much to the great Rin¬ con and Messilla Vallej-s, with their some two hundred thousand acres of very fertile land said to be the rich¬ est in the world with the exception of the Nile valley in Egypt.
The site selected for the building of the dam is a natural one, and when completed it will hold in check the Rio Grande river, creating a lake forty miles long, from three to five miles wide, and 200 feet deep at the dam. The United States Reclamation Service, under whose direct supervision the dam is being constructed, has provided for taking care of any surplus waters which might at any time threaten to flood the valley.
The two hundred thousand acres of land reclaimed by this great project will be divided into 160-acre tracts, and will be developed through the agency of modern, improved farming machines. There will be a sufficient supply of water in the lake created by the dam for sup- pl}-ing its immense territory for three years without any rain or water supply from any other source.
The dam will cost, when completed, ten million dol¬ lars, having required six years for its construction.
The building of a great dam like this means an enor¬ mous benefit to the people living in these fertile val¬ leys. Within the next few years, the power that un¬ doubtedly will be stored up at this dam will be the means of bringing many new business enterprises into the valley, and the great, thriving city of El Paso will surely develop and grow rapidly.
There will be a formal opening of the Elephant Butte dam some time during the coming fall, which will be a. notable event to the great Southwest.