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<br /> <br />\1'...; . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Nebraska, it increased 45 percent. The addition of the acreage about to <br />be irrigated from the Colorado-Dig Thompson PrOject will bring about a <br />sizeable increase in Colorado irrigation. <br />Taking the 17 Western States as a whole, irrigation increased <br />by 22 percent during those ten years. Yet the West has not kept up With <br />the national average; for in the entire United States, irrigation increased <br />by virtually 25 percent. This means, of course, that the East, with its <br />abundant rainfall, has been building up its, irrigation at an even laster <br />rate than the West with its Bureau of Reclamation and its millions of <br />acres of illlused or under-used but irrigable land. In fact, Eastern <br />irrigation has approXimately doubled With the addition of three quarters <br />of a million new irrigated acres during the past decade. <br />In short, it has been our almost universal experience that once <br />people ll,et a taste of irrigation, they want more and more of its. Because <br />irrigation is no longer an experiement, it's a proven money-maker in all <br />kinds of country under all kinds of conditions. It protects the farmer <br />and gives him assurance of the crop he planned for. It protects the <br />whole community by assuring it of a stable, sound agricultural base <br />producJ,ng at maximum capacity. <br />In time, Bonny Dam will be working for this region as well as <br />guarding it. Until then, it will earn its keep as a flood-control <br />structure. But the door will always be open ...nenever you want to make <br />use of its irrigation poss~b:Llities;and this fact alone makes it a further <br />asset to this region. One seventh of its total capacity--some 25,000 acre- <br />feet of storage--are permanently earmarked for the service of some 6,500 <br />acres in the St. Francis Unit, here in Colorado and Kansas, as soon as the <br />water users are ready to take it. <br /> <br />2486 <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />