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<br />L" <br />~ <br />00 <br />C" <br /> <br />',~~ <br /> <br />Since the total area within ~resent district beunQaries is <br /> <br />18,600 acres, 54~ of the land within the 6istrict is classed as non- <br /> <br />arable. Of this several hundred acres in sections 1, 2, 11, 12, 14, <br /> <br />and 15 T. 7 S., R. 92 W., is arable land but too high for present <br /> <br />ditches. The rest consists of high hills, rocky eXFosures or peor, <br /> <br />thin soil. <br /> <br />The soil of the .,roject varies w1Cely, since it came fron <br /> <br />many sources. The average texture is silt loam, deep and relatively <br /> <br />free from alkali. There are llllited areas where the soil is a mediun <br /> <br />heavy clay and snme spots where irrigation has raised or will con- <br /> <br />centrate a harmful amount of salts. These areas will be lWllted. <br /> <br />Toward the west a layer of rich rravelly lime occurs at depths vary- <br /> <br />Ing from 30 to 48 inches and Is underlaid with coarser and nore open <br /> <br />soil and gravel. <br /> <br />From the peint where Alkali Gulch leaves its c'lnyon in <br /> <br />section 11, T. 8 s., R. 92 W., the country slopes to the northeast <br /> <br />down the continuation of Alkali Gulch and several parallel gulches <br /> <br />which lie northwest of Alkali Gulch to West Divide Creek. Dry Hollow <br /> <br />rises near the southeast corner of section 16, T. 7 s., R. 92 W., <br /> <br />anc flows north into Colorado River. Fr,:JO the heac of Dry Hollow a <br /> <br />short divide extends northeast between it and the last gulCh draining <br /> <br />into West Divide Creek, and all the rest of the lana fr~1 there north <br /> <br />22 <br />