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Show 698 HISTORY OF PUBLIC LAND LAW DEVELOPMENT Since many of the projects contained very The tabulation by states of irrigated land little Federal land that was open to home- served by the Bureau of Reclamation pro-stead, some contained none, the tabulation jects and the total acreage of irrigated land of homestead entries is not as useful an as of 1964 are here given together, provided index of the significance of Federal recla- through the kindness of Karl Landstrom of mation as the data of irrigated land served the Office of the Secretary, Department of by the Bureau of Reclamation projects. the Interior. Irrigated Land Statistics, 1964 Irrigated Lands Served by Bureau Total Irrigated Acres State of Reclamation Projects Census of Agriculture Arizona 492,897 1,125,376 California 2,308,167 7,598,698 Colorado 967,564 2,690,018 Idaho 1,618,533 2,801,500 Kansas 63,013 1,004,210 Montana 340,407 1,893,360 Nebraska 426,014 2,169,317 Nevada 14,326 824,511 New Mexico 308,651 812,723 North Dakota 30,302 50,548 Oklahoma 47,260 302,081 Oregon 484,906 1,607,659 South Dakota 78,192 130,050 Texas 105,064 6,384,963 Utah 370,895 1,092,270 Washington 943,084 1,149,842 Wyoming 310,288 1,571,192 Totals 9,036,563 33,208,318 |