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<br />.--) <br /> <br />capital stock in the company, and the state owns 2,097.58 shares <br /> <br />-~ - <br />---~---Of -the-total or about~1.24 percent. Each share is supposed to <br />~ <br />~ irrigate one acre: however, a land classification performed by <br />o <br /> <br />the USBR (U. S. Bureau of Reclamation) in 1963 showed that 19,329 <br /> <br />acres were irrigated under the canal at that time. <br /> <br />Normally, the Catlin is only able to divert water under its <br /> <br />more senior decree. A cumulative frequency analysis performed on <br /> <br />daily headgate diversions during the irrigation seasons (April <br /> <br />through October) of compact years 1949-72 showed that water was <br /> <br />diverted under the junior decree during only 15 percent of the <br /> <br />days. Monthly headgate diversions under these decrees were obtained <br /> <br />from the water conunissioner's field book$-for compact years 1949-72 <br /> <br />and are shown on table 1. Irrigation season diversions have aver- <br /> <br />aged about 60,600 acre-feet or about 3.25 acre-feet per share, but <br /> <br />they have ranged from a low of 26,300 acre-feet or 1.41 acre-feet <br /> <br />per share in 1954 to a high of 86,200 acre-feet or 4.62 acre-feet <br /> <br />per share in 1970. Diversions during the non-irrigation seasons <br /> <br />(November through March) of compact years 1949-72 have averaged <br /> <br />21,900 acre-feet. <br /> <br />To supplement the water availabl-e from its surface decrees, <br /> <br />the Catlin Canal Company owns a decree for transmountain diversions <br /> <br />by the Larkspur ditch in water district 28 and six-sevenths of the <br /> <br />water stored in Mt. Pisgah reservoir (sometimes referred to as <br /> <br />~- - -Wrights-re-s-ervoi:r)--iIl w at: er- -dls1:riC-C-I2 :---DurTrig-some -irrigatIon -- n__ <br /> <br />2 <br />