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Show -2- The Chairman. Are you willing to furnish us a copy of your report? Mr. Denton. I gave extracts to Mr. Berry, of the Union, and if I had time I would be willing to present the committee with a copy. The Chairman. Will you send it to Washington at any time within six weeks? Mr. Denton. I will do so. It will afford me a great deal of pleasure to send it. Adjourned. PAPER PREPARED BY WILLIAM DENTON. Agreeably to request, I have the pleasure of submitting my report upon the basin of the Colorado, situated in San Diego County, and in the northeastern part of the northern district of the peninsula of Baja California, Mexico, although a portion of this basin is in Mexico and outside of the jurisdiction of the United States, and might at first glance appear irrelevant to the matter which I propose to discuss; but that part of the basin situated north of the boundary line between the United States and Mexico is, practically speaking, dependent upon the Mexican side as a medium through which water must be introduced for the irrigation of an important part of the territory under consideration. The area of the land north of the boundary line (United States) that is susceptible of cultivation through irrigation is approximately 1,797,120 acres. Of this area, 1,336,320 acres, owing to its situation, would be irrigated from the Colorado River, the rest, 460,800 acres, from reservoirs that could be made in Jacume, Carizo, upper Vallecitos, San Felipe, which would collect annually in the vicinty of 50,000,000,000 gallons of water, sufficient if economically used to irrigate by |