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<br />the Canal \;vas 302,283 acre-feet. In that year the loss <br />was estimated at 25%, leaving 226,713 acre-feet avail- <br />able. Of this amount 73,036 acre-feet was the amount <br />taken by the Kicking Bird, or 32.21 % of the whole, ;eav- <br />ing 67.79% as the share of the Fort Lyon. <br /> <br />The question of the amount of loss suffered in a canal <br />by seepage and evaporation is one very difficult to de- <br />termine with any deg~ee of accuracy. I am informed by <br />Mr. Thomas Berry, former chief Engineer of the Arkan- <br />sas Valley SJgar Beet anc Irrigated Land Company, that <br />the change in the estimate from 30% to 25% as the <br />total loss ir the Western Division was the result of <br />gaugings made with allla!eral head gates closed. This <br />25% may therefore, be nearer correct than 30%, al- <br />though it is variable according to volume carried. On <br />the Kicking Bird Canal the loss in 34 miles was found to <br />be but 14% during the year 1900, when the canal was <br />comparativeiy new and conditions rather more favor- <br />able for loss than subsequently. <br /> <br />STORAGE CANAL. <br /> <br />The canal, which was nominally begun September 29:-, <br />1902 (although active work on a large scale was actu- <br />ally begun ir Ja'1uary, 1906), and completed in Octo- <br />ber, 1909, to the end in Adobe Creek Reservoir, was <br />originally desigred solely for carrying excess flood wa- <br />ter from the Arkansas River for the purpose of storing it <br />for use 'n the Horse Creek and Adobe Creek Reser- <br />voirs. Recent filings, made March -; s:, 1910, of the pro- <br />posed enlargement of this canal from its oresent ca- <br />pacity of 840 second-feet to 2306 second-feet, declare <br /> <br />38 <br />