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Show Record Complainant's Exhibit No. 2 was prepared under my supervision The data as to irrigated area, which is shown on the map in two patterns of green, as far as the reclamation projects are concerned, was derived from surveys by engineers of the Reclamation Bureau. The areas shown in solid green was copies from maps 4077 prepared for the 1920 census. The information as to reclamation projects is based on surveys made in 1902. The information as to the private irrigated area was compiled by the Department of Agriculture for the Census Bureau in 1919. 4078 The only information that is shown on this map near Moab, Utah, is certain private irrigated areas, which information was derived from the Census Bureau data. The investigation around or down the Green River in Utah of possible irrigation projects was made during the last 5 or 10 years. 4079 Power projects do not come within the purview of the Reclamation Service except when incidental to irrigation. The map carries as a master of information a number of power sites that we knew of at the time of the compilation of the map. They do not represent in all cases surveys for power development made by this bureau. For instance, we have several sites from Flaming Gorge on down the river marked with an arrow as power sites, but those power sites, have been investigated primarily by this bureau as irrigation reservoirs, only incidentally as sources of power. The Flaming Gorge site was like the other reservoirs that are shown on this map and was considered as a possible storage for the lower 4080 basin. At the present time it is a power project as far as I know. We investigated it in the early years as an irrigation reservoir. 4081 The Flaming Gorge Reservoir would be a part of the equalizing scheme on the river. The Ouray Reservoir Site was one of the several reservoirs that formed one scheme of replacement for Boulder Canyon storage in case Boulder Canyon should have proved not feasible. The Ouray site has proven entirely infeasible and is not seriously considered at the present time. |