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YELLCMSTONE Pln-U'ING UNIT Description: Yellowstone Pumping Units, 26 in number, are scat- tered along the river in southeastern Montana. These units comprise a total of 94,460 acres of irrigable land, with individual units ranging in size from 350 acres to 14,600 acres. Each unit will be irrigated from an individual system supplied by a pumping plant, lift- ing water from the Yellowstone River or from existing canals heading in the Yellowstone River. Pumping lifts vary from 20 to 185 feet. Program FY49 Funds available, $694,527. Construction was scheduled to start on Savage and Cartwright Units. Accomplishments FY49 Costs to June 30, $447,472. Award was made for construction of Savage Unit on lmrch 31, 1949, and work was 38 percent complete on June 30. Wo construction was under- taken on Cartwright. BOS'l\HCK UNIT Description: The Bostwick Unit is located in south-central Ne- braska and north-central Kansas. The approximate 90,000 acres of unit lands consist, in part, of a strip of valley lands from one-half to three miles wide and, in part, of table lands in compact areas south- east of Superior, Nebraska, and in the vicinity of Courtland, Kansas, all along the Republican River. Harlan County Dam and Reservoir are under construction by the Corps of Engineers, Department 'of the Army. The dam,' located just be- low the confluence of Prairie Dog Creek with the Republican River, will provide 850,000 acre-feet of storage capacity, allocated to the fol- lowing purposes: silt retention, 200,000; irrigation, 150,000; and flood control, 500,000. Program FY49 Funds available, 01,499,001. Construction was scheduled to start on the Superior-Courtland and Republic Diversion Dam and on the Superior and Courtland Canals. AccOlllplishments FY49 Costs to June 30, ~640,019. Construction was started on the Superior-Courtland Diversion Dam and on Superior Canal. An addi- tional contract was awarded for Superior Canal and Pawnee Lake wasteway. 44