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. . Survey of Present Irrigation Development and Potentially Irrigable Areas In Arkansas and Red River Basins of Texas Part II Inventory of Potential Surface Water Irrigation Developments Red and Arkansas River Busins In Texas 1950 WATER SUPPLY Water supply and quality sbldies of the Canadian and Red River Basins in Texas have been directed mainly toward the Canadian River development and toward possible development of Prairie Dog Town Fork near tho mouth of Mulberry Creek. Continuing water supply studies will be neoessary for operation of the Canadian River Project under the Canadian River Compact which was ratified recently by Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. Runoff studies were initiated on Prairie Dog Town Fork with the installation of a gage on the stream at Antelope Flats bridge near Brice in December 14, 1938. Its.operation was continued until June 30, 1944. Interest in project development was later revived in connection with storage for municipal wator use and both runoff and quality stations were established at the site of the original gage on Prairie Dog Town Fork. Their operation was continued from August 1949 to July 1951. Toward the latter part of the record period, study of the data made it evident that the quality of Prairie Dog Town Fork was unsuitable for either municipal or irrigation uses and that waters of Mulberry Creek would be equally unsuit-. able for municipal uses, but would probably be tolerable for irrigation use. With these facts evident, it was decided to discontinue operation of the stations. No water supply studies have been conducted on Salt Fork of Red River above the Oklahoma-Texas St.lte Line related to runoff. Spot sampling of the main stem and of tributary streams for quality study was done in June 1950. Preliminary tests of these samples indicated fair quality stream flow could be expected above the Donley County - Collingsworth County line. Below this line, tributary streams entering the river are more highly mineralized and would be unsatisfactory for municipal uses. Preliminarf analysis of spot samples of Groesbeck Creek indicates the stream is highly mineralized perhaps consisting largely of calcium sulphate. Similar data on Wanderers Creek indicates the stream flow is probably of fair quality. PeasG River watGr supply studies were initiated in 1924 with the establishment of a gage for runoff data at State Highway Bridge #283, 8 miles north of Crowell. Its operation was discontinued on June 30, 1947, 30