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Show 13. It ia offered as a suggestion that if thia lag exists, it may be a means of predicting one or two yoara In advance the condi ticns of tho stream flow. Hun-cff:- Tha Uintah Project ia drained by the Duchesne Biver and its tributariaa, aa originally tho Uintah Beser-vation maaraced all the laid ooaprising ita water-shod* Hear the eastern border of the Basin tha Duchasna joino the Green Hiver, which on its confluence with tho Grand River, forms the Colorado. Tha gaz_._ral direction of the course of the Duchesne is from T-eat to Bast and ita average fall varieo from tweniy feet to tha mile tc mora tha^j. eighty foet to tha znile in ita upper reaches* .Entering tha Duchesne from tha Borsh ara three large tributaries, Sock Creak, tho lake 2?6rk and Uintah Iii vera. The Uintah Biver has two tributaries, V/hiterocks Biver and Beep Creek,, both.entering from the 3orthr, aa the general course of that section of tha Uintah between tho tm tributaries is from northwoat to southeast-- This section of tho Uintah and tha lower roach of the 'rihi teroo&a -' \. is made up of a network of ohannaLa, aa shown on Map 3o«. 1, accompanying thia report. These channels are a source of A constant interest to the irrigator as the river, without.'Ny v 7 a moment's notice .may decide to follow a new channel, lsa*v*-7 lug- the old ona on which the oanal. intake is located* fh&*$ 3'3 \ average fall in the laka Fork,. Uintah and Whiterooks rivers..' . . i f , . -. is in excess of fifty feet tc the nils. _, _ I'O |
