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<br />\ . <br /> <br />crops end because until recently, t~an5?Ortat1on to good markets <br />wall expensive. '1i1th t!l better wster uupply and the present de- <br />veloped ~lck buainess on much improved roade, more profitable <br />orops can be grown, and mt,rlteted. <br />About 8,500 acres in the valley have been irrigated, <br />although dur1ng recent 1eor5 only 7,000 acres of thill ~rea have <br />been actively farmed. !he rest bas been partially irrigated <br />for pallture. A largo ecreage ot areble land, both in the valley <br />and on the 10nB elopaa ..b1ch lie northwest of it, could be reached <br />by gravity from the Mancos Mver, but irrigation is limited by <br />water supply. <br />A total of only 13,000 acres is so located thnt its <br />returu flow from irrigation will remain tribute.17 to, end aveil- <br />able for reuoa on the main body of the project lands in and near <br />the river valley. No feasible stream bed reservoir a1 tea lire <br />aveUleble llnd none of the available sites C01lllAends more then <br />half the surplus watar of the Mancos River. Tbe two most et- <br />tractive reservoir sites located are offstre8M aites, the <br />Jackson Gulch s1te, to be fed by the West Marufos River, largest <br />of the streams and the Weber site, to be fed from Middle -bnCQS <br />River. <br /> <br />For any eres u9 to 10,000 sore a the ~reBent ditches <br />ere adequate in size. The maximum development of 13,000 seres <br />can probebly be covered by extensions of these ditches, which <br /> <br />B <br /> <br />'2.20'1 <br />