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<br /> ACms lBRIDATED IN COLORADO RIVER BASJN
<br /> As Reported by U. S.
<br /> BURFAU OF REIAMATION
<br /> PR1!SENT ALLOWANCE ACTUAL CENSUS
<br /> (Note 11)
<br />ARlZONA 4,000 4,000 3,900
<br />COLORADO 733,700 2,000(a) 731,700 844,500 (12)
<br />NEW MEXICO 38,000 38,000 36,100
<br />UTAH 261,100 261,100 305,600
<br />WYOMJNG 242,000 20,OOO(b) 222,000 274.000
<br />UPPER BASlN 1,278,800 22,000 1,256,800 1,464,100
<br />ARlZONA 1,073,800 236,900 836,900 636,200
<br />CALIFORNIA 803,000 342,100 460,900 454,800
<br />NEVAllP. 11,000 11,000 13,900
<br />NEW MEXICO 18,800 18,800 13,900
<br />UTAH 23.500 23.500 19.300
<br />LOWER BASJN 1,930,100 579,000(c) 1,351,100 1,138,100
<br />COLORADO RIVER BASlN 3,208,900 601,000 2,607,900 2,602,200
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<br />(a) 2,000 acres new land to be irrigated by Paonia project, authori~ed.
<br />(b) 20,000 acres to be irrigated by Eden project, under construction.
<br />(c) 579,000 acres of "irrigab1e" land, in addition to that irrigated
<br />in 1943 (See later table for segregation by projects.)
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<br />Note (11): For the entire Colorado River Basin, the U.S. Census
<br />and :Bureau of Reclamation data are in agreement. Note, however, that the
<br />:Bureau of Reclamation reports about 200,000 acres more in the Lower :Basin,
<br />largely in Arizona, and about 200,000 acres less in the upper Basin, about
<br />half in Colorado and the balance in Wyoming and Utah.
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<br />Note (12): U. S. Census reported 844,494 acres irrigated, of
<br />which 702,279 acres of harvested cropland; 10,292 acres crop failure; and
<br />131,923 acres of irrigated pasture. Reports of District Water COIIIlIl1ss1oners
<br />and Irrigation Division Engineers show 887,476 acres irrigated in season of
<br />1939 and about the same in other recent years.
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