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<br />, '.' <br /> <br />.) <br /> <br />.) <br /> <br />~'" co -- "('"" -- J' "U"-- 5'" ,"" '-JI'IL,r-:o <br />IJJ..L..1.1.0'_L~:_.___~:_~_._..~.~:"lCL,; .i..~L. lAlb.r.;r j ~b.r:....I.". <br /> <br />The persistent statements of the lower Color~:do River <br /> <br />people thl~t it is ::'_0 economic w::'_ste (::end one promioent mc.n <br /> <br />said e.n economic crirne) to use the C olo~o.do River wat er in <br /> <br />the uppe~ vo.lleys of the river, hcs prompted me to m2ke the <br /> <br />following sto.tement. <br /> <br />I S2W the firEt ir~ig2tion in the Color~do River B2sin <br /> <br />in 1861 und 1882. I beg::lJ my :first impo~to.nt i~rigC'_tion work <br /> <br />in J~nu~ry, 1883, in the extreme weste~n purt of Colorado on <br /> <br />the Colorcdo River. I have been in int imat e touch I-:i th the <br /> <br />irrigation development of theColor~do River Drainage ever <br /> <br />si~ce. Nine years of this period I heve been Sto.te Engineer. <br /> <br />The l~~gcr pn~t of my practice ~s un irrigo.tion cnbinoer und <br /> <br />irrigction fa~m8r hus baen on the Waste~n Slope in Colorado, <br /> <br />Wyoming ::nd Uteh. <br /> <br />I ho.ve been acquainted with agriculture in Cslifo~niE <br /> <br />for the lest twenty-eight ye~~6. A comp:::n:tive study of <br /> <br />the two sections led me to m2ke the statcment twenty-four <br /> <br />yeo.ys ago that ~hen prope~ly developed, the l~nds of the <br /> <br />\~ <br />'I <br /> <br />inte~-mountain vclleys of the ~ester~ Slope will be o.s <br /> <br />Vo.lUDble DS those of Californio. and ~rizonB. My experience <br /> <br />end study since that time,more st~ongly confi~ms me in this <br /> <br />view. Expeci~lly the quality of the products grown compured <br /> <br />to th~t in the lower altitude is to the ~dvLot&ge of the <br /> <br />uppGr country. <br /> <br />D <br />