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<br />I...... <br />,t:., <br />je <br />, <br /> <br />f <br />~t, <br /> <br />Elimination of the destruction would be most beneficial. Meadows and <br />pastures mixed with trees would grow. Fishing and hunting would be good on <br />these small reservoirs. Raising the water table downstream to the Platte River, <br />thousands of acres could be irrigated by pump irrigation. <br /> <br />As to the legal aspects, old water rights - some 50 to 60 of them would <br />have to be wiped out and set up for this new development by private enterprise, <br />or State or Federal. <br /> <br />'I <br /> <br />~ '~ <br />, <br />" <br />l. <br /> <br />Signed: Jim Price <br /> <br />STATEMENT <br />Of <br />George L. James <br />(Weld County) <br /> <br />The following is the information that is the best I can secure from <br />several of the farmers and ranchers living along Kiowa and Comanche Creeks. <br />As you probably know, tile Bijou does not go through our county so I was not <br />able to get any information on Flood Damage on that creek. I will try and put <br />this information in as near a tabulated form as is possible to do. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The total crop area affected by floods and which was totally flooded in <br />the 1935 flood is approximately 4290 acres. This amount of crop land is usually <br />flooded each year from 30 to 50 percent, depending upon the size of the flood. <br />As far as these men can remember the 1935 flood is the only one which covered <br />the entire crop area. In addition to this crop land, there is approximately <br />2500 acres of very fine pasture which is also irrigated and most of this pasture <br />is flooded each year. This pasture is capable, under normal circumstances, of <br />carrying from one to one and a half animal units per month on a six to seven <br />months basis. <br /> <br />^ <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />There are seven bridges in,.,eld County on the Kiowa and Comanche Creeks <br />and in 1935 all the approaches were washed out, five of the bridges were gone <br />and two very badly damaged. Under ordinary flood conditions the approaches to <br />most of the bridges will be washed out but usually two or three bridges are all <br />that go out or are badly damaged. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />In regard to the crops grown on this 4290 acres the following is a list <br />of the crops with a percent of the area in the crop and the average anticipated <br />yield in that area providingothe area is not hit with flood. <br /> <br />Alfalfa, 25%, 4 1/2 tons per acre; Corn, 20%, 90 to 100 bushels or 17 to <br />19 tons of silage per acre; Beans, 30%,. 30 bu. per acre; Barley and some small <br />grains, other than barley, 70 bu. per acre, 15%; Sugar beets, 5%, 22 tons per <br />acre; potatoes, 5%, 235 sacks per acre. <br /> <br />During the 1935 flOOd, the entire crop was lost with the exception of <br />beans. It is estimated that the beans were reduced in yield approximately 55%. <br />For ordinary floods, such as we have had in the last ten years, the crop damage <br />is from 50 to 60 per cent. <br /> <br />-3- <br /> <br />