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<br />CROPS PRODUCED, FARM UNITS, ETC. <br />The acreage of crops grown under the Fort Lyon Canal <br />is about as follows: <br /> <br />Alfalfa, <br />Fail wheat, <br />Orchards and smail frui::s. <br />Sugar beets, <br />Miscellaneous: oats, corn. cane, <br /> <br />spelt, cantaloupes. etc.. 12.600 Acres <br />Total 78,600 Acres <br />Tne farms generally average 80 :0 160 acres in size. <br />aithough the largest covers about 3,000 acres. <br /> <br />50,000 Acres <br />10,000 Acres <br />1,000 Acres <br />5.000 Acres <br /> <br />GENERAL CONDITION OF CANAL. <br /> <br />The main Fort Lyon Canal is certainly remarkabie for <br />the uniformi:y of its cross-section. the smoothness and <br />evenness of its velocity, and its freedom from either <br />deposits or destructive scour. It is very ra:-e to find a <br />canal \vhich never requires to be cleaned out and runs <br />year after year without a general overhau:ing and re- <br />pair such as most irrigatior. ditches are obl!ged to un- <br />dergo. The banks are well established and so thoroughly <br />compacted and knitted together with roots of cottonwood <br />or willow trees, which are encouraged to grow as a fringe <br />along the lower bank, so that breaks are of rare occur- <br />rence, and are only expected after severe storms and <br />general overflow of sheet water from off the plains. <br />There are a few places here and there on the cana! <br />where the banks require protection on the outer s,de of <br />curves, but this is cheap,y made by the use of hog-wire <br />fencing v/ith str3\v or manure spread over the slopes <br /> <br />27 <br />