Development of the great irrigation project in the lower Shoshone valley by the U.S. Reclamation Service required settlers in the upper valley to give up their land. Beneath the surface of Buffalo Bill Reservoir once stood the community of Marquette, and small ranches lined both the North and South forks of the river. The government bought all these properties for roughly $400,000 in 1905, and the settlers were allowed to remain until the reservoir began to fill in 1910. On February 10, 1904, the Secretary of the Interior set aside $2,250,000 for the initial construction of the Shoshone Project, one of the first federal reclamation projects in the nation and the largest federal project in Wyoming. The Project was settled in four divisions: the Garland in 1907, Frannie in 1917, the Willwood in 1927, and Heart Mountain in 1946. Today the Project comprises 93,000 acres, producing major crops including alfalfa hay, sugar beets, dry edible beans, malting barley, and specialty crops.