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Identifier: watersupplyirrig6571unit (find matches)
Title: Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: United States Geological Survey
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B. ROCK. CUT ;N CURVE OF WEST VALLEY DITCH, MARGUERETTA CANAL.
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Taylor.) PECOS RIVER IRRIGATION COMPANY. 23 by it is steadily increasing. The total cost of the system was morethan $150,0(), and il is designed : cover about L0,000 acres, only6,000 of which are, however, yet under cultivation. The water rightsare sold at $10 an acre, a permanent right guaranteeing 25 minersinches of water to the acre. The annual rental is $1 and $1.50 foreach acre served with water. The principal crop is cotton, ofwhich there are about 3,500 acres. The other crops cultivated arcalfalfa, sugar beets, and all kinds of forage plants, fruits,and vege-tables. Sugar beets tested in 1806 showed between L4 and 20 percent of saccharine matter. Peaches, apples, and grapes do well.Cotton averages 500 pounds of lint to the acre. The annual rainfallis about 12 inches. Owing to the high elevation (2,700 feet) the-seasons are much later than in most of the irrigated districts of theState. The enterprise seems to have been conducted with energy and care,the canals a

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