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Show I m ( o'flher oflher oflier ) lands that can not be irrigated . R . 5171 . ) There is a small amount of the waters of the Dolores River subject to prior claims of persons up in the headwaters of the Dolores . ( R . 5172 . ) ( Pages 156 and 157 . Senate Document 142 . ( Sixty-seventh Sixtyseventh ) Congress , second session , a report by A . B . Davis , director of Bureau of Reclamation , dated February 4th , 1922 , offered in evidence for ( complain complain- complain ) ant R . , Vol . 29 , p . 5173 , and are copied in the Record , ( pages Vages ) 5174 to 5178 . ) " ( Pages 156 and 157 of report referred to are as . ( follows ollows ) : . "156 ( "PROBLEMS PROBLEMS ) OF IMPERIAL VALLEY AND ( VICINITY- VICINITY ) DOLORES PROJECT ( "Irrigable Irrigable ) area , 80,000 acres or more . ( "Mean Mean ) annual temperature , 45' . ( "Mean Mean ) annual precipitation , 14 inches . . . ( "Precipitation Precipitation ) during growing season , 7 inches . ( '"Elevation Elevation -ICElevation ICElevation ) , 6,000 to 6,500 feet . I ( "Interval Interval Interval ) between killing frost , 125 days . . ( "Transportation Transportation ) , Denver & Rio Grande Railroad , ( narrow 'marrow marrow ) gage ; nearest station , Dolores , 20 to 60 miles . ( "Irrigation Irrigation 'Urrigation Urrigation ) plan . ( -The The ) Dolores reservoir is to be ( built -built built ) on Dolores River just below mouth of Beaver ( 'Creek Creek Creek ) , about 10 miles downstream from town of ( Dolores "Dolores Dolores ) . Present water level is to be raised 230 feet . . and diversion to be made 173 feet above stream bed , leaving 120,000 ( acre-feet acrefeet ) of active storage . The canal will follow the south side of the canyon for |
