Excerpt from Annual Report From the Commissioner of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior: Reprinted From the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1946 Construction work on the Missouri River Basin project was started to advance the comprehensive over-all program for the complete development of the land and water resources of the arid, semiarid and subhumid areas of this river basin which includes one-sixth of the land surface of continental United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.