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Show 41. water delivery* T.ator Was rotated among the several laterals, and tha Oovernracnt did all within its power to get water, but it simply was mt in the rivsr due to subsequent filers seising it for their awn use. The Bod Cap Canal lies at tha tail end of a river and with the falling off of stream flow, suffers nor a thin carals farth«_r tea the stream, duo to time necessary in adjusting different gates. In the latter part of the 1915 irrigation season there occurs! a disasteroua waah~outT and tho old wooden flume on the Bed Cap district was destroyed. ^ork was started in reuLscing the old flumo by a motal one supported over the channel by a queen pout truss with a span of 34 feet. I submit herewith an oxtract frwn a letter written by Project Engineer, Joseph U. Bryant,, respecting water shortage fcr 1916r Relative to the shortage of water in 1915, tha ata-s«_ienta that water was low rvero correct, for from July 8 to 26 wry little vmter was •D-3-ioitted to reach the beadgute by subsequent at-rropriatora diverting higher up the*, atream. Thia condition wau in no wanner tl» fault of this irrigation Proj wt, and thn officials hnra were power la as to recody th em. Crops under this"ditoh suffered during 1913, but that 5QJ-* losa resulted is a great over-estimate aooording to my opinion. V/ith losa tban tha legal rate of ono seocoudfoot of watnr for oaoh 70 acres under cultivation only a very few days since Bay 15th, I am of the opinion that the estimated losses made by 3 on a of the |