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<br />. aOl1lS3 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />In Nebraska most of the County Assessor's offices did not have <br />a figure. for total irrigated land because the assessments are made at <br />different rates according to the quality of the land. Scotts Bluff <br />County was the only county where the County Assessor's reports aotually <br />listed the land being irrigated. <br /> <br />The intlilrviaw with Mr. Gleason was enlightemng as to the govern- <br />ment projeots espeoially in conneotion with .several different olassii'ica- <br />tions given by the government project reports. He explai ned that the term <br />~lrrigated land~ is vary difficult to define beo~use of yearly fluctuations <br />in the number of acres to which water is aotually applied, but explained <br />to us the meaning of tha ter.ms "net cropped acreage", "developed farms" and <br />"worke oompleted". The "net cropped acreage" as reported by the United <br />States Bureau of Reolamation includes all' land to which water has been <br />applied for any partioular year; this, of course, does not include roads, <br />farmyards, crop failures or idle lands. "Developed farms" inoludes these <br />items: it is in reality all lands which can be furnished with water by the <br />project. "Works completed" is the total irrigable land in the project. <br /> <br />. .. _. Mr. Gleason alSO conveyed the idea that most of the disputes <br />betWeen Wyoming and Nebraska could and would be settled by their respective <br />State Engineers excapt for the legal technicaliti'es that had bean brought <br />up by the North Platte River suit. <br /> <br />Senator Kirk of Lingle, Wyoming, an officer of the Lucerne Canal <br />Company stated thai; the irrigataci land under that ditoh oould be. obtained <br />.from the testimony whioh had previously been given, as did Mr. Harmon of' . <br />the Goshen Irrigation District. <br /> <br />Several other ditch companies, including the Farmers and the <br />Torrington, saemed reluctant to giye any information, explaining that_ it <br />could all be found in the testimony. During ourviaits at the off'ice of' <br />the Pathfinder Irrigation District and the Goshen Irrigation Distriot <br />we obtained the amounts of water actually delivered into the .State of <br />Nebraska by their systems in the years 1938 and 1939. <br /> <br />All of the irrigated lands in Wyoming along the main river were <br />checked by use of contact prints, scale approximej;ely 3" = 1 Mile. Our <br />coverage of' this area was quite complete and our observations ware thought <br />to be reasonablY- acounte. From the state line to the eastern line of <br />Morrill County we had mosaics of aerial pictures, scale 1000' = 1 inch. <br />This area was covered more accurately then any other because a 1 erge part <br />of the irrigation is in this area. In Garden County coverage by aerial <br />photographs was pelor since all we had was the large index "-hEiets, scale <br />1" = 1 mile approximately; however, since the irrigation development has <br />been rather small in this seotion the error in classii'ioat'ron should not <br />be substantial. In Keith and Lincoln Counties we again had contact prints <br />covaring the area. Since the North Platte River was at a very low stage <br />during the time of our trip much reliance, especially below Bridgeport, <br />had to be given to the conditions as portrayed by the aerial piotures. <br />Considerable seeped and sub-irrigated land was found below Bridgeport <br />which was classified separately. <br />