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<br />eJ <br /> <br />.....~ <br /> <br />'-~ <br />Ie <br /> <br />would be used within the State, but since that time large areas <br />have been developed in Nebraska and ~ 8mall portion of the land <br />tributary to the river has been irrigated in #yoming. A fight <br />has gone on between the State and the Heclamatiou 5ervice for <br />over twelve years in ao effort to obtain our ri~hts and it has <br />only been recently that we have had anything like an understand- <br />ing with the Reclamation Service and have roason to hope that <br />we may get at least a part of th~ water that we are entitled to, <br />and in the Colorado matter we do not want the same thing to <br /> <br />occur tha',; has occurrvd on th(;: IJ orth Platte. <br /> <br />We do not know definitely what the irrigated arca ef.#yo- <br /> <br /> <br />ming is, that is, what is capable of being irrigE!ted. It has <br /> <br /> <br />b"en variously estimated but we think that we 'lave something <br /> <br />like five million aC?6S of land in the state th~t is capable <br /> <br />of irrigation. We may have more -- we may have less. We do not <br />know the exact amount on the Colorado River. It has been esti- <br /> <br />mated from one million to two million acres. .I?:c'obably there <br /> <br />is something like a million and a half. At the pr~sent time we <br /> <br />have nuarly 500,000 acros under irrigation. This land, while <br /> <br />it doos not produce tho sarno crops as other lan&s in California <br /> <br />o~ in Arizona, will produce profit8bl~ ~rops which may be turned <br /> <br /> <br />int 0 livestock, and I bel ieve that I am safe in saying ti1at it <br /> <br /> <br />will yield as much net per acre as will lands in othGr places. <br /> <br /> <br />It is surrounded by thb finest kind of range or grazing land, <br /> <br /> <br />and the development of Wyoming to a large extent, containing at <br />