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<br />. <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />MH. CA~PliUTJ::H: Which one? <br />ltq. GliTTY: Division No.4. <br />M3. CARPliNTr;H: ~vi1o are your subordinate of=lcers? <br />, <br /> <br />MIl. GJ<;T'l'Y: \I~'ater C,ormnissioners. <br />MR. CA3P.t:1JTJ::R: Ove.1' what territor;:; doeD , \'JEter cormnissioner <br /> <br />have jurisdiction? <br />1L~. GtTTY: Over the immediate delivery of w,ter to the water <br /> <br />users. <br /> <br />MR. CARP:t:NTliR: kl thin certain wster districts? <br />1m. G:t:TTY: Within cert!!in wL.ter districts. <br />MR. CARPliNTtR: ~hey repcrt to you, Mr. <br />MR. GliTTY: ~hey do. <br />(Mr. Getty then read the following :rafer) <br />Irrigation Division No, 4 teke3 in the south one-half of <br />the Western Slops of GolorB.do and includes Grand Valley. the <br />G~~nison, Uncompahgre, Dolores and San J&un Rivers. Fourteen of <br />the twenty-three counties on the' Western Slope lie in Division <br /> <br />4. <br /> <br />Ir. round figures 640.000 acres ~re irri~ated and as much <br />more land will be irrigated in the future. 0= thetot1:.l area of <br />1,300,000 acres which may ultimlitely be irrigated, one-fourth is <br />low valley land and three-fourths is high mesa end mountain land <br />where precipitation lessens the water re(]uirements for irrigation. <br />Future irrigation dev~lopment lies nractic['lly 211 in u~land <br />areas which [re scattered Gnd will come into reclamation in com- <br />paratively small trLcts. <br /> <br />G.J, <br />