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<br />143,500 Bcres. The lands irrigated in 1937 was 767,060, and <br />with the 143,500 acre increase, the total presently irrigated <br />lands would be 910,560 acres. The Hill Report (Page 15) gives <br />aswnmary figure of 824,072 acres, which is 86,488 acres less <br />than the total as determined from study af sample area data. i <br />With a total of 767,060 acres irrigated, as measured in <br />1937, and this increased by 143,500 during the last fifteen <br />years, all by private initiative, the question may well be asked: <br />What may we expeot to take place during the next thirty years <br />if sufficient water remains available for additional expansion? <br />As a basla of estimate on the probable future expansion, we <br />again tU~led to the recent study of the Bureau of Reclamation <br />in the Colorado River Basin above Palisade. <br />After the completion of the land olassifioation work in <br />the basin, the Bureau of Reolamation made a study of what it <br />termed "LIl,nds Best Suited for Development by Private Interests". <br />The lands thus considered are leoated suoh that they can be <br />served water by extension and enlargement of existing irrigation <br />faoHi tiell by the oons true tion of new rela ti vely inexpensive <br />ditches for the serving of small tracts of land and the pumping <br />Elf water under low pumping heads. The total acreage of land <br />designatec. by the Bureau as likely to be developed by private <br />interests is 40,215 acres for the Colorado River Basin above <br />Palisade. By projeoting the same allowance for other portions <br />of Western Colorado for similar development, it is concluded <br />that by prtvate initiative we may expect an additioll.al 190,000 <br /> <br />- 3 - <br />