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<br />A- p l:'eT)~\ 'f.. L <br /> <br />", t <br /> <br />1~53 <br /> <br />SUMMARY OF STUDY BY C. H. JEX ON THE <br />INCR[!:ASE OF IRRIGATED LANDS IN WESTERN <br />COLORADO BY PRIVATE INITIATIVE <br /> <br />It app'~ars to those aoquainted with agrioultural developEallt <br />in Western Colorado that the Hill Report has not given adequate <br />oonsideration to the privately finanoed agricultural development <br />new taking place ia. the basin. In recent years a large nwnber <br />of new irrigation ditches have been constructed for the diversion <br />of irrigation water from the several streams of the area, and <br />also a large nwnber of water storage reservoirs have been oon- <br />struoted for irrigation purposes. <br />The Hill Report provided for only a very small inorease <br />in conswnpti",e use of water above the figure reported by the <br />Engineering Advisory Committee to the Compact Commission in 1948. <br />Also, the re}ort of the Engineering Advisory Committee shows only <br />a small expallsion over the irrigated lands, as measured by the <br />Bureau of Re'~lamatiol!l. ill. 1937. The 1937 survey of irrigated laRds <br />,,1' Western C"lorado is the only oomplete, detailed information <br />available for the entire area /if Western Colorado, requiring <br />that estimat,es be used to refleot the expansioJ:l of irrigati0D. <br />that has taken place sinoe 1937. <br />Using the figures of the 1937 land survey by the Bureau of <br />Reolamation a.s a base for complete basin ooverage, and knowing <br />that the irrigated lands in at least three separate seotions of <br />