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<br />COST OF MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION. <br /> <br />Western Eastern <br />Year Division Division <br />1906 86,055.96 84,029.70 <br />1907 86,076.89 83,222.16 <br />1908 88,772.34 84,633.51 <br />1909 89,569.82 86,109.70 <br /> <br />Total <br />810,085.66 <br />8 9,299.05 <br />813,405.85 <br />515,679.52 <br /> <br />Under the original contract with the Great Plains <br />Water Storage Company, the two companies agreed to <br />share the expense of maintenance of the portion of the <br />canai used jointly by them, to wit: the Western Division, <br />in the proportion that the volume of water annually ob- <br />tained by each company may bear to the entire volume <br />taken into the canal that year. In computing this ratio <br />the estimated loss in the canal for the first 42 miles is <br />first deducted, and the amount measured to the Kick- <br />ing Bird Canal bears a certain ratio to the remainder, <br />which is then taken as the Storage company's percent- <br />age of the maintenance cost. For instance, during the <br />12 months from November, 1902, to October, 1903, <br />according to the annual report of superintendent C. W. <br />Burke, the Fort Lyon Canal carried 181 ,572 acre-feet; <br />loss was estimated at 30% or 54,471 acre-feet. ieaving <br />127,101 acre-feet as measured at Gageby, which was <br />19.9% of the estimated total available, leaving 102,326 <br />acre-feet for the Fort Lyon ,,"vater users. For the year <br />ending October 3F, 1906, the total volume carried by <br /> <br />37 <br />