Fronton it Inko forty-five miles long, with 200 miles of Northern line.

Tune 1,000 acres, partly in Mexico.

Work done, 1,117 feet; width at the river, air, foot at the creek, 15 feet.

TEX- October 7.?Elephant Butte Dam, the largest irrigation structure of the sort in the United States, and the largest mass of masonry in the world, will be formally dedicated here on next Saturday, October 11. Present will be representatives of President Wilson and Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, several Senators and delegates to the Irrigation Congress to be held in this city.

The clam marks an epoch in the re-opening of the vast dry lands of the Southwest. It will water 155,000 acres part in New Mexico and Texas and part in Honor Carranza's turbulent domain. In a way, this great project, making a vast section blossom with roses, vegetable gardens and orchards, is an international enterprise, its contemplation should do much to teach the Mexicans that their interests lie in a cordial attitude toward Uncle Sam.

The statistics showing the work to be done by this dam are staggering. The dam is 187 feet long, with a maximum width of 215 feet at the base, tapering to a width of eighteen feet at the crest, which is  304.5 feet above bedrock. The crest is used as a roadway. The structure contains 610,000 cubic yards of stone and rubble concrete, and weighs 1,0.10,000 tons. The "lake" formed by the dam, which stores only the flood waters of the Rio Grande, will be forty-five miles long, with an average width of six miles and an average depth of sixty-six feet. 