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<br />reports the occurrence of nine floods between ApriI19:~ <br />and September 3"::. ranging from 30 to 10,000 second- <br />feet in volume. The watershed area of 480 square miles <br />is capable of yielding a large water suppiy at times of <br />heavy rainfalL <br /> <br />The average annual yield of the river from the drainage <br />area above Canon City for 20 years past nas been 179 <br />acre-feet per square mile. It is not expected that the <br />plains watershed will ever yie~d more than one-third as <br />much as the mountains, or about 60 acre-feet per square <br />m\le per annum. at which rate the Adobe Creek shed <br />would oive a run-off of 28.800 acre-feet. and that of <br />g - . <br /> <br />Horse Creek of 73.200, over 100,000 in the aggregate. <br />In some seasons this may be largely exceeded. Com- <br />paring these figures with the table of annual water sup- <br />ply afforded by the main Fort Lyon Canal. one may bet- <br />ter appreciate the value to the system of developing the <br />reservoirs by which alone this supply may be impounded <br />and utilized. <br /> <br />THE KING RESERVOIR. <br /> <br />The natural basin which is called the King Reservoir is <br />one of the six natural lakes in the plains north of Lamar, <br />of which four are the property of the Arkansas Valley <br />Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land company, and have been <br />formed into useful reservoirs, in service since 1900. It <br />is immediately south of the Neeskah, or Queen Reser- <br />voir, and 23 feet lower, The elevation of the top contour <br />is 3,875 feet above sea-level, and the area of that con- <br />tour is 1,332 acres. The basin has never been utilized <br />as a reservoir, although the Great Plains Company, in <br />its original contract. undertook to develop it for a con- <br /> <br />51 <br />