Shoshone Dam

noun

1. a dam on the Shoshone River. 328 feet (100 meters) high.

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Under the Reclamation Law the Secretary, pursuant to his authority "to do any and all acts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act," has designated by his own order the name of the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, the Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico, and the Shoshone Dam in Wyoming.

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On the way to the Yellowstone National Park by way of the Wyoming entrance at Cody, and three miles east of the great Shoshone Dam, a limestone cave has been set apart under the title of the Shoshone Cavern National Monument.

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Wyoming Park wagon road, showing wonderful tunnelling work on the new wagon road from Cody, Wyo., to the National Park via the Shoshone Dam.

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Two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars were allotted for the construction of the Shoshone Dam which will form a reservoir of water sufficient to irrigate 75,000 acres of land 50 miles farther down the river.

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The most important of these undertakings were the Roosevelt Dam, the Shoshone Dam, and the Truckee-Carson Canal.

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