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<br />.' <br /> <br />OOlH5 <br /> -13- <br /> IRR !GATED ACRDS Dl COLORADO RIVER BASIlI <br /> -- <br /> As Reported by U. S. Census Bureau <br /> 1902 1909 1919 1929 1939 <br />Arizona 246,866 317,661 !'pl,694 572,269 640,110 <br />California 10,000 213,611 447,384 464,653 454,768 <br />Co lor ado 417,839 617,242 766,532 856,413 844,494 <br />J,evada 11,ltll 13,850 8,546 12,308 13,880 <br />Hew Hexico 29 ,809 37,300 53,808 55,310 49.841 <br />utah 92,622 167.287 362 -576 347,452 324.899 <br />Hyoming 118.566 183,595 211 ,507 228,699 Z/3,971 <br />Basin Totals 9Z/.183 1.550.546 2.312.546 2.537.124 2.601.963 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />( <br />',~ <br /> <br />The above table indicates the irrigaticn development of the Colo- <br />rado J(iver Basin since 1902. or illustrates "Claiming the Basin" for 'agri- <br />cultural purposes during the past 40 years. and is nat inconsistent with <br />data appearing in the Report for the Basin as a whole. The table at page <br />Z{ shows 2.400.000 acres irrigated in 1922. whereas the above table shows <br />2.312,5!.P acres in 1919 and 2,537.124 acres in 1929. Later in the Report <br />a figure appears of slightly more than 2,600,000 acres, which represents <br />the present irrigated aoreage exolusive of allowanoes made for irrigable <br />lands of existing and autho['ized projects to be irrigated in the future, <br />which figure is substantially the same as the 2,601,963 aores reported by <br />the U. S. Census Bureau for the season of 1939, although there are unex- <br />plained differences in the figures when considered by individual states. <br />Colorado questions the advisability of reporting information concerning <br />lands considered irrigable in 1922, unless it can be sho"m that the deter- <br />minations were based on land olassifioation definitions that ~~re uniform- <br />ly applied in bath basins and Nations, Information concerning develop- <br />ments in Mexico would not come within the title of the Report. Hhatever <br />data regarding Mexico may be justified for inc lusion and preservation in <br />the Report, if any, might better appear in the following Chapter entitled, <br />"Dividing the Hater," and in the seotion thereof entitled, "Bet...een the <br />United Sto.tes and Hexioo." Colorado points out that ,the irrigated aoreage <br />in the Basin, according to the above table. increased from 927 .183 acres <br />in 1902, to 2,601,963 aores in 1939; and suggests that the Bureau of Re- <br />clamation segregate the increase of 1.674,780 acres as between federal <br />and private developments. In this connection COlorado notes that the irri- <br />gated acreage in the Colorado River Basin in Colorado increased from <br />417,839 aores in 1902 to 844,Le4 acres in 1939. and says that the increase <br />of 426,655 aores in about 40 years may be attributed to federal develop- <br />ments to the extent of 90.012 acres, and to private developments to the <br />extent of 336,643 acres. <br /> <br />27. Chapter III, entitled, "Dividing the Hater," contains an outline <br />of the factors said to have motivated the negotiation of the Colorado Ri- <br />ver COI;1pact, and is arranged in two parts entitled, "Between the Upper and <br />Lower Basins;" and "Between the United states and Hexico." Subject headings <br />