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<br />. <br /> <br />,'-' <br /> <br />~. <br /> <br />about 2,300,000 ac~'e, feet pOl' annum. ~'hi.s very probably is aE <br />large an acreage and as large a contributiou from e. correspond-' <br />ing territor~' as the river receives a:1ywhere in its course, <br />possibly excepting a portion of Colorado. From our experience <br />in irrigation, han~ling water, observin~ the return flow and <br />the actual consumption, we believe that the ~uantity ai water <br />arising in Wyoming is sufficient, perhaps more than sufficient <br />to pro}erly irrigate and rGclaim all 0:;: the land" which can be <br />irrigated and realaimed in that basin in this state. The same <br />thine: is true in a &!'eater degretJ in Colorado. While the in- <br />formation is not so d"finite and comph-t8 as in vvyominl3, it <br />seems to be accopttJd that the amount of water contributed by <br />the state of Colorado to this drai.na::;,- basin is much greater <br />than any possible use to which it may 'oe put in that state. I <br />am not familiar with tte condition in Utah, but I assume that <br />there is not so great a discrepancy as therE: is in Colorado <br />and th&t perhaps the amount of water that is contributed by the <br />Utah streams is considerably less than the amount of land which <br />it ma~' be pOSSible to irrigate within the drailll;[e basin wtthin <br />that state. In California, so far as I kilOW, \ath_the excep- <br />tion of some comparatively small areas along the upper portions <br />of the stream in that state, tho &reat body of land which it is <br />e:lCpectea. to reclaim lies ill the Imperial Valley. <br />