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Show 13. companies in area is the Bry Gulch Irrigation Company which controls several tracts aggregating 40,000 acres. This company, baa enlarged the Uintah Canal and Canal Bo. 1 under decrees from the State Court of Utah, while it has carrying capacity In Indian Bench Canal. These are Government oanal3 diverting from tha Uintah Biver. During the year 1913 there wars 52,703 acres of Indian land under cultivation, the term Indian land including the land served by the Uintah Bro^ect, irrespective of whether it had been sold to white settlers. At the same time, 74,505 acrea cf land belonging to the white settlors were undar cultivation, at total of 127,208 acres. Aa the lew water flow of tha several rivcrp, exclusive of the Daaheane, is. hardly acre than sufficient for the 83,000 aeraa belonging "to the Indiana and for which th<y have prior rights, it is obvious that there will bo considerable suffering among th a white settlers when all the Indian land launder oultS,witIon. It w ill be necessary for them either to secure storage facilities or abandon part of their land. Underground "ffater:- In a oountry so well watered, as ia the Uintah Basin, it is remarkable that underground water ia no t more uniformly available at a moderate depth. Apparently wells can oaly be secured along the river channels. Artesian water has been developed in a certain 18 |
