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Show 71 for irrigat ion. it irrigates a total of 5863 acras. The water service on theDyton Sowasi ta has alwaay boon abundant. On account of the faot that this canal takes out of tha Duchesne Diver wiero the supply is limited only by the capacity of the ditoh. Hotation of isater isaot carried on under thia ditch system, and v-ater is available at all tiaes for ^ater users. C0I5T3UCTIOH 0_? DHA22AGH D1TCBSS:- It beoaae apparent, soon after the initiation of the Uintah Project, that drainage v-ould soon be raoeooary. In faot, eoae of tha land under ditohes oonstruoted. prior to the opening of the Keservation w a already becoming waterlogged. This condition obtained northwest of I?t*T Duo he ana and oiao eaat of Uyton. To remedy the oondition near _?-_. Di__ohe3ne, a drain ditoh 8,0CO fset long waa ba.ilt along the baae of the In3isa Denoh to oarry mtcr from thia feature to a \TO11 dofined 7?ash through which it returned to the Uintah Hlver* The .lr-iinage wrJc on tho floe pod land •'ju.yt of D^ton v;as oo'Ttnwiced in liarch, 1911. This land conflicted of about 1000 aores which had become wot by r/aste water from tha old Indian Village ditch, which bad floviod over this land for rimy years. This drain has not accomplished the 71 |