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<br />Inflow by Seepage. <br /> <br />This reservoir has the remarkable quaiity of gaining <br />volume instead of iosing. The evaporation's more than <br />made up by the inflow from seepage, and the gain is <br />said to have been about 2 feet per annum. The seep- <br />age loss of the Great Plains Reservoirs to the north is <br />doubtless the source of this supply. The effect of this <br />gain is to add to the value and usefulness of the reser- <br />voir, and making it equivalent to one of considerably <br />larger capacity, up to say 13.000 to 15,000 acre-feet. <br />subject to usual losses. <br /> <br />The Principal Source of Supply. <br /> <br />The principal source of supply must always be the Fort <br />Lyon Canal, which passes around it on three sides. <br /> <br />The field of usefulness of the Thurston, King and Queen <br />Reservoirs is confined to the territory in May Valley and <br />vicinity, near the lower end of the Canal, comprising <br />some 15,000 to 18,000 acres, for which they will be able <br />to hold a reserve supply to an extent of over 30,000 <br />acre-feet annually, thus making these lands practically <br />independent of the direct supply from the river during <br />the irrigation season. This presupposes that the King <br />Reservoir may be filled from the Horse Creek and Adobe <br />Reservoirs through the Kicking Bird, It has been sug- <br />gested that an independent canal be built from the Adobe <br />Reservoir to Gageby in order to be able to connect there <br />with the portion of the Fort Lyon Canal which is not now <br />used jointly by the two companies. This canal has been <br />surveyed. and is a crooked one, over rather bad ground <br />for construction. Its length would be 31 miles, and its <br /> <br />57 <br />