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Show 102 PROBLEMS OF IMPERIAL VALLEY AND VICINITY. Irrigation, in cures-Upper Basin-Continued. BY STREAMS AND STATES-Continued. Irrigated, 1920. Possible future. Under constructed project but not yet irrigated. Class A. Class B. Class C. Class X. Total ultimate. Grand River Basin: Main stem- Colorado 251,000 13,000 46,000 10,000 117,000 424,000 13,000 345,000 172,000 327,000 517,000 42,000 80,000 100,000 46,000 8,000 4,000 64,000 61,000 5,000 10,000 Utah.. Gunnison, Colo............. Dolores, Colo.............. 245,000 33,000 35,000 "*i5,"666" 20,000 114,000 180,000 208,000 30,000 ' 275,'666" 45,000 10,000 36,000 San Juan Basin: Colorado.................... New Mexico 111,000 34 000 Utah.. 12,000 Price River Basin, Utah ¦....... San Rafael Basin, Utah l. 1 ___ 30,000 80,000 .......... 30,000 .......... 20,000 20,000 30,000 4,000 2,000 5,000 5,000 Fremont Basin, Utah' 16 000 Escalante, Paria, and Kanab:l Utah.. . 4,000 Arizona.... 2,000 Little Colorado Basin, Arizona '. Virgin River Basin:» Utah....................... 19,000 21,000 40 000 35,000 ' Nevada..... 5,000 Other tributaries, Utah •...... 7,000 3,000 BY STREAM BASINS. Green RLver Basin............. Grand River Basin............. San Juan River Basin.......... Price River Basin 643,000 542,000 157,000 30,000 119,000 81,000 -262,000 25,000 343,000 134,000 418,000 i 30,000 259,000 275,000 224,000 172,000 36,000 20,000 20,000 30,000 5,000 5,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 3,000 1,855,000 954,000 886,000 80,000 100,000 46,000 64,000 66,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 . 10,000 San Rafael Basin. 80,000 16r000 Fremont Basin..... Little Colorado River Basin 19,000 40,000 35,000 Virgin River Basin............. Escalante 26,000 2,000 2,000 o 2,000 7,000 Kajiab......... ... Paria Other tributaries__ Total....... 1,526,000 200,000 287,000 1,005,000 534,000 521,000 4,073,000 BY STATES. Wyoming..... 367,000 740,000 359,000 34,000 92,000 81,000 27,000 96,000 191,000 105,000 407,000 245,000 208,000 40,000 149,000 62,000 48,000 275,000 101,000 277,000 136,000 7,000 910,000 1,758,000 815,000 517,000 68,000 5,000 Colorado.................... Utah........................... New Mexico .. Arizona............... 21,000 5,000 Nevada....................... Total.................... 1,526,000 200,000 287,000 1,005,000 534,000 521,000 4,073,000 1 Information is very poor. It is taken from 1920 United States Census as to present irrigated acreage. This is divided by counties which sometimes include several drainage areas. On the Virgin and Price some data are at hand as to definite projects. The amounts placed in class X are arbitrarily assumed without as good working knowledge of conditions as is at hand for other main tributaries. |