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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />INVEllTORY REPORT OF IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENTS III THE <br />RED fllill ARKANSAS RIVER BASIilS OF TEXAS 1 1950 <br /> <br />The portion of Tey,as lyinG ,Ii thin the Red and :,r],ans3s Ili vcr <br />Dusins contained 5981848 ncres of irrigated land in lS50 (see J'able 1). <br />TllC approximate location of these developments and the type or ,later used <br />are shovn in Figure 1. <br /> <br />Exeer>ting the project at Wichita FaLls, which is a group cnter- <br />:wise, all irrigation develO)'ments in tIds portion of Texas are iudividUB.l <br />lmdertal,ings. <br /> <br />The acreage irrigated in 1950 ,les contained in J,EbO individual <br />farms. Only 710 of these farms were located within the group project at <br />l:ichita Falls. Inasmuch as individual developments 2.re considered to be <br />~rojects, this area contains 2,951 projects - one group and 2,950 individ- <br />ual projects. <br /> <br />Hith this \llD.ny :)rojects involved, individual treatment is <br />obviously not within the scope of thio report and some groupinG of projects <br />is required. <br /> <br />Although the conditions affectinz irriGation development differ <br />sharply, there are fairly definite areas of these basins in which. condi- <br />tions tend to bo similar. These areas arc delineated in FiDUTe 1, and <br />the individual developments therein are treated collectively. <br /> <br />For discussion pllrpOSOS, the 21951 projocts have beon erouped <br />first by priority of stv.cl~' as set up by the State Al1R committee; seconcil;'l, <br />b~' major draim:;e basin; and, third, by subdivisions or areas of signi- <br />ficance ,lithin the broader claosificutions. <br /> <br />In the discussion to 1'0110\, the combination of conditions le.:lding <br />to subdivision, or conditione which muke subdivision desirable, is set <br />forth at ap?roprinte places in the te;:t. The more salient conditions <br />having 1:1 bearing all irriG<2tion prc-,cticed in the !Jarticulur subdiv:i.sion <br />are also strossed. <br /> <br />I. Red Ri vel' Dr~.il1a",o BuDin <br />Above Head of 1al"" Texoma <br /> <br />The area included in this portion of tho Red RivGr lhsin lies <br />south of the lcrlcansc.s River Basin and includes po.rts of the follo;ling <br />physiographic Ooreas: tile Southern HiGh Plains, thc Rolling Plo.ins, and <br />the Vestern Cross Tllnbers. <br /> <br />In 1'/50, this pm-t of the Red River Basin contained 3,550 farms <br />o~uippod for irrigation on ,Thich 582,51:2 acres ~lerc iTl'igOotod (TOoble 1). <br />DecQuse of favorable ~oistl1re conditione, ~pproxic~te1y 700 Oocree, on <br />6 of the fOorr,lS cquip?cd for irrigOotion, ,Iere not irl'igOotcd in 1950. <br /> <br />1 <br />