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<br />o <br />C\J <br />00 <br />CJ <br /> <br />-., <br /> <br />principal crops are hay for wint"r feeding, and grain which can <br /> <br />usually be matured before the flood water supply is exhausted. <br /> <br />Row crops which require a supply of late summer water <br /> <br />have been raised on only a small acreage of the project, but are <br /> <br />the principal dependence on similarly situated land north of COlorado <br /> <br />River immediately opposite this project, where sugar beets especially <br /> <br />are a very profitable product. A supply of water that would permit <br /> <br />growing sugar beets and other cash crops on at least the lower parts <br /> <br />of the project would help secure the location of a sugar factcry in <br /> <br />the vicinity, and increase very rr~terially the average cash return <br /> <br />per acre from the project. <br /> <br />Since the irrigated area cannot be increased, the present <br /> <br />ditches are adequate. This investigation deals only with supplecental <br /> <br />storage, which must be provided during the months of ~une, ~uly, <br /> <br />August and September, except in the rare years when high flood flow <br /> <br />lasts through ~une or summer rains provide a sufficient supply of <br /> <br />water for more than a few days at a time. <br /> <br />Haystack Reservoir Development <br /> <br />Located on Middle Willow Creek about one-half mile above <br /> <br />its mouth this site has a maximum capacity of 7,000 acre-feet. <br /> <br />It is to be su!,plied by West and Middle Willow Creeks which now flow <br /> <br />through the reservoir basin. East Willow Creek, by means of a <br /> <br />channel change, will also feed the reservoir continuously, and a <br /> <br />feeder canal 3.65 miles long frOI:l the upper crainage area of West <br /> <br />B <br />