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Show Record The area colored yellow represents the land that is possible to irrigate from the Dolores River. The Dolores River is designated on the map. There are about 506,000 acres included in the area col- 5158 ored yellow; of that, about 184,000 acres lies in Colorado and about 322,000 acres lies in Utah. The acreage in the area colored brown, being the cut timber 5159 lands, is about 782,000 acres. There are about 160,000 acres in the areas colored green; of which 129,846 acres are in Colorado and 30,064 acres in New Mexico. In connection with the acreage that I have just spoken of, I obtained the figures from the records of District No. 7 in Colo- Rado and from the County Assessor's records in New Mexico. The records of the County Assessor's office in Colorado show considerably less of these irrigated lands than the records of District No. 7. According to the records of the County Assessors of counties in Colorado in which these irrigated lands lie, the total area of the irrigated lands in Colorado is 73,385 acres. The 5160 records of District No. 7 show that acreage to be 129,846 acres. In District No. 7 the date is obtained by the division engineer and his authorized deputies who actually make the estimate on the various streams of the amount of land cultivated. They are made at each point by observation of those officers on the ground. In making defendant's Exhibit 281 adopted the figures of the district engineer in the office of District No. 7 for Colorado because I felt they were more nearly accurate than the County assessors is determined largely for assessment, and usually held down to a minimum rather than giving the full acreage, on the same principle as the method of assessing property at less than its real 5161 value. Whichever is accepted as the standard, the figures I have given show the acreage from both sources; but in making the map I colored the large area in Colorado as shown by the records of the 772 1893 |
