St. Mary River Bridge & Siphon, Spanning St. Mary River, Babb, Glacier County, MT

Significance: The Reclamation Act of 1902 authorized the U.S. Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior to undertake numerous irrigation projects to make arid land farmable. One of those projects in Montana was the Milk River Project intended to irrigate an estimated 250,000 acres. Most of the lands to be irrigated were along the Milk River from the point at which it re-enters the U.S. from Canada (NW of Havre) at the mouth of the Milk below Glasgow...

Survey number: HAER MT-22

Building/structure dates: 1915 Initial Construction

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1915 - 1980

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