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<br />C? <br />..... <br />co <br />(\1 <br /> <br />~---'" <br /> <br />SYNOPSIS AND CONCLUSIONS <br /> <br />West Divide Creek rises in the Huntsman's Hills about <br /> <br />25 miles south of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and flows northwest <br /> <br />for about 40 miles to enter Colorado River near Silt, Colorado. <br /> <br />For the lower half of its course its shallow valley lies at the <br /> <br />edge of a broken mesa, extending west an average of six miles <br /> <br />fram the creek. The mesa slopes toward West Divide Creek and also <br /> <br />quite steeply toward Colorado River. It is cut by numerous dry <br /> <br />gulches and by isolated hills, so that its total area of about <br /> <br />25,000 acres contains only about 12,000 acres of arable land. <br /> <br />Of the total area on this mesa 18,600 acres is within a <br /> <br />Public Irrigation District of which 8,161 acres is now irrigated <br /> <br />and a total of ~bout 9,000 acres is irrigated or arable. The land <br /> <br />has many varieties of seil, the average texture being a silt loam <br /> <br />of good depth and free from alkali. Toward the west side of the <br /> <br />mesa a layer of rich gravelly lime underlies the surface at a depth <br /> <br />of 30 to 48 inches and is in turn underlaid by more open gravel. <br /> <br />The elevation of the mesa at Colorado River is 5,900 feet <br /> <br />and at the head of the irrigated land 7,200 feet, the average being <br /> <br />abcut 6,.500 feet. The climate is scrnewhat like that of the irrigated <br /> <br />areas in northeastern Colorado, with temperatures about equal to <br /> <br />those west of Mississippi River at the same latitude. <br /> <br />This is primarily a livestock country, the basis for all <br /> <br />operations being the summer grazing on nearby National Forests. The <br /> <br />A <br />