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<br />1938 after ono season of use, the other remaining. <br /> <br />Small areas <br /> <br /> <br />O~1857 <br />. <br /> <br />(a) Sopris dam site to Trinidad (above Trinidad) <br />(b) City ef Trinidad <br />(c) Trinidad to the Arkansas River (belovl Trinidad) <br /> <br />Above Trinidad: <br /> <br />(a) Damages that occurred h&ve not been roporteu for this <br /> <br />roach. Two diversion dams are muintnined for diverting irri- <br /> <br />gation water in this area. One was destroyed by the floods of June <br /> <br />bonefiting will not permit owners to construct expensive diver- <br /> <br />sions and so those temporary structures of about $l,OOO in <br /> <br />value are used. Two highway bridges below the dam have been <br /> <br />damaged by small floods, one b8ing washed out in.l904. A. T. & <br /> <br />S. F. and C. & W. railroad bridges cross the Purgatoire River, <br /> <br />one immediately below tho mouth of Raton Canyon and tho othor 3,000 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />foot below the d2lli site, respectively. Tracks of both railroads <br /> <br />traverse the valley with about two milos of the latter company's <br /> <br />track being subject to severo flood damage. In one location en- <br /> <br />crouchmont upon the channel proper reduces its capacity to about <br /> <br />25,000 sec;md-feet. State Highway No. 12 purullels tho riv0'r for <br /> <br />some distance below the chm ,end is repeatedly subjected to erosion <br /> <br />by flood wators. In addition there are about 350 acres of good <br /> <br />irrigated luncl oooupying the va1l0Y whioh, together with improve- <br /> <br />monts, c,m be damug,xl by floods of the 1904 magnitude or grouter. <br /> <br />It is anticipated that the C. & IV. railroud bridgo, as <br /> <br />well as the highvmy bridges, Vlould be lost or <1amagod beyon<1 <br /> <br />reasonable ropair with a flow equal to that of 1904. This flood <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />72 <br />