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<br />.. <br /> <br />COL01:Ud.,8 Dl'.'~'~,--(;CJ1,jJiJJO ;:;1VER BL&In. <br /> <br />:3)! <br /> <br />R. I. Weoker, Irri~Btion Engineer, <br />Speci~l Do)uty State EnGine~r. <br />IYrch 2"" 1922. <br /> <br />CC~C'RADO 'S RELA'l'IOll TO WATER .t'ROBLELS OF COLORi>DO RIVBR BASIll. <br /> <br />Colorado's destiny is ~oncoclo~ in tho ~ndovcloFed <br /> <br />rO~9urces of Western Colorcuo. ~~o third of tho statu, lying <br /> <br />west of the Uontinontal Divide and in tho Colorado River Basin, <br /> <br />is cuomonly culled tho Western Slope. East of the Continental <br /> <br />Divide tho water supply is largely used, future irrigatiun is <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />limited and crable lauds ere vastly in excess of the wator <br /> <br />supply. Wost ef the Continental Divide tho reverso is true; <br /> <br />the o.rec. of irrigo.b10 land is limited, tho water supply is <br />abundant Bnd vo.stly in e:lCess of all future req,uircLlents. For <br /> <br />this roason tho Westorn Slope is Colorado's land of promiso. <br /> <br />For twenty years it has been the aim, hope aud ambition of <br /> <br />Colorado eU&ineers aud irrigators to take a small ~art of the <br /> <br />Western Slope surplus to Eastern Slope lands where iutvusive <br />culture is pro.cticed and a second foot of water is worth <br /> <br />~lO,OOO to $15,000. <br /> <br />Tho total water produced in the State of Colo~~do is <br /> <br />roughly 17,500,000 acre-feet ~nnually. <br /> <br />7010 of this supply is <br /> <br />.) <br /> <br />'ilestern Slope or Coloral'.o River water. The i/estcrn Slope <br /> <br />waters are Colorado's last uudeveloped w~ter supply of conse- <br /> <br />D <br />