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<br />-".'.-:.-.. <br />..~.;:-..:. . <br /> <br />~ <br />) <br />, t,I) <br /> <br />, - - ~ <br /> <br />.... <br />~ <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />waters from the Arkansas River and are affected by the <br /> <br />operation of John Martin Reservoir. An estimate pre- <br /> <br />pared by the Colorado Water Conservation Board staffl <br /> <br />from aerial photographs that were taken during 1936-39 <br /> <br />shows that about 58.000 acres of land were irrigated by <br /> <br />the ditches in Colorado and about 53,000 acres were <br /> <br />irrigated by the Kansas ditches. A recent estimate <br /> <br />that approxiamtely 67,000 acres of land are irrigated <br /> <br />in Colorado was prepared from the pertinent data shown <br /> <br />in table 1, which were obtained from ,the ditch companies <br /> <br />by the water commissioner for water District 67. It <br /> <br />seems that the recent estimate may be high because of <br /> <br />the traditional tendencies of ditch companies to over- <br /> <br />estimate their irrigated acreage. The earlier estimate <br /> <br />may be low because of the supplemental water supplies <br /> <br />made available by the development of irrigation wells as <br /> <br />reported by the USGS (U. S. Geological Survey).2 Prin- <br /> <br />cipal crops in the area are alfalfa. corn, grain <br /> <br />sorghums, and sugar beets as shown in table 1. <br /> <br />Although the John Martin Reservoir project was <br /> <br />authorized for flood control and water conservation for <br /> <br />irrigation, a significant congressional consideration <br />