Utah exhibits [of the] State of Arizona, complainant, v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, City of San Diego, and County of San Diego, defendants, United States of America and State of Nevada, interveners, State of New Mexico and State of Utah, parties

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262 IRRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS IN UTAH. total of State selections not yet approved, 14,000 acres. Outside of the barren lands and lands adapted only to grazing are large areas of fertile irrigable land. Although this land is not classified in detail by either the State or National Governments, an endeavor was made through personal examination and the assistance of Mr. Isaac C. Macfarlane, county surveyor of Washington County, Utah, who is familiar with conditions in practically the entire basin, to determine its approximate area and location. Only that land was classed as irrigable that could by any reasonable means be watered from the streams of the basin were their flow increased. Befinninc with the head of Virgin River in Long Valley, and including all tributaries to the mouth of the river, these lands are classified by location and area in the following summary: Xouwatrred irrigable lands in basin of Virgin River. Acres. East Fork of Virgjn River, in Long Valley..................................... 8<X) Northwest of Virgin City..................................................... 200 Hurricane Bench, in addition to 2,000 acres under Hurricane Canal............. 2, 000 Below Bench Lake on Hurricane Bench.....................___.............. 2,500 Kanarra Creek......................................................,........ 4, 000 Ash Creek, at Harmony...................................................... 4, 000 Ash Creek, above Kelseys.................................................... 820 Ash Creek, al>ove Bellevue....................,.. ........................... 820 Ash Creek, at Bellevue....................................................... t>40 Ash Creek, at Toquerville.................................................... 250 La Verkin Creek............................................................. 50 Quail Creek, east of Leeds and Silver Reef..................................... (J40 Quail Creek, between 1 Iarrisburg and Silver Reef.............................. 5uO Cottonwood Creek, near Harrisburg........................................... 1, 0u0 Washington and Middleton................................................... A, .'»00 In wash below St. < Jeorge and Washington Field............................... ], 000 South and west of St. George................................................ 1, 440 Santa Clara Creek, in (irass Valley............................................ 1, 0C0 Santa Clara Creek, in Pine Valley............................................. 100 Santa Clara Creek, above Diamond Valley..................................... 2, 500 Santa Clara Creek, Ijelow < uinlock............................................ 200 Santa Clara Creek, above Santa Clara.......................................... 2, 500 Between Bloomington and Santa Clara Creek................................... 200 Bloomington and Price benches............................................... SO) Between lower narrows on Virgin River and Beaverdam....................... 2, 100 Mesquite.................................................................... 1, 300 Bunkerville................................................................. 400 Virgin River, bet ween Bunkerville and Muddy Creek.......................... 7, CHX) Muddy Creek................................................................ 18, 000 Virgin River, below Muddy Creek............................................ 7, 800 Total.................................................................. «1, 760 From the above summary and the figures given to show the extent to which the public lands of the basin have been entered or selected, the following generalizations are apparent: That of the 4,500,000 acres in Virgin Basin, only 1.7 per cent are in State or private ownership, only 1.7 per cent are irrigable, and Only three-temhs of 1 per cent are irrigated. The question then presents itself, Is there auy way for the irrigated area to be increased?