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<br />000919 <br /> <br />\.. ." <br /> <br />_,..-1 <br /> <br />COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD <br />Engineering Department <br />C. L. Patterson. Chief Engineer <br /> <br />LAND IRRIGATED_ (A~RE~BY GHARA9TER OF ENTERPRISE <br /> <br />As Reported by U. S. Census <br /> <br />Character of Enterprise <br /> <br />1909 <br /> <br />14,433,285 <br /> <br />13.8{:4J727 <br /> <br />6;594;6i4 <br />4.643.539 <br />528.642 <br />1;809.379 <br />288.553 <br /> <br />1919 <br /> <br />19,191.716 <br /> <br />17.652.596 <br /> <br />6. 84B,807 <br />6.581,400 (b) <br />1.822.887 <br />1.822,001 <br />523.929 <br />53.572 <br /> <br />1.539.120 <br /> <br />Totals - 19 Western States <br />Non-Federal <br /> <br />Individual and Partnership <br />Cooperative <br />Irrigation Districts <br />Commercial Enterprises <br />Carey Act Projects <br />State. City and Other <br /> <br />Federal <br /> <br />568.558 <br /> <br />u. S; Bureau Indian Affairs <br />U. S. Bureau of Reclamation <br /> <br />172.912 <br />395.646 <br /> <br />284.551 <br />1;254.569 <br /> <br />1929 <br />19.547.544 <br />17.730.676 <br />6;410.581 (a) <br />6.271.334 (a) <br />3.452.275 (c) <br />1.230.763 (d) <br />86.772 (e) <br />278.951 (f) <br /> <br />1;816.868 <br /> <br />331.840 <br />1.485;028 (g) <br /> <br />(a) Reduction (in 1929) - "is partly accounted for by large increase <br />in area served by irrigation districts. many of which represent <br />the oonsolidation of sma11 enterprises." in these classes. <br /> <br />(b) Inorease, "largely because of the taking over of enterprises begun <br />under the Carey Aot." <br /> <br />(c) Increase. lido not represent the full extent of irrigation distriot <br />movement. since distriots organized within U. S. Bureau of <br />Reclamation enterprises are not inc1uded'." <br /> <br />(d) Decline attributed to "ma.ny reorganizations which usually have had <br />the effect of transferring them to irrigation distriot or co- <br />operative olassification." <br /> <br />(e) <br /> <br />Decrease attributed to reorganizations as en~erprises of other <br />types' . <br /> <br />(f) <br /> <br />State projeots (11.489 aores) mainly in California. in process <br />of conversion to cooperative (mutual) oompany; City projects <br />(121.218 acres) largely at Los Angeles; other projects (146.244 <br />acres) ino1ude lands irrigated by drai nage districts (Oregon) and <br />looa1 reo1amation (flood control and drainage) districts. largely <br />in California. <br /> <br />(g) <br /> <br />Figure includes more than 1.000.000 acres under systems. the <br />operation of which has been assumed by the water users; - does <br />not include lands which obtain part of their supplies under <br />Warren Aot or other contracts; - such areas increased from <br />900.000 acres in 1919 to 1.234.320 aores in 1929. <br /> <br />082-40-91545-5 <br />