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Show 72 purpose for whi eh it -was begun, the aeepodarea having iroreaaod rather than diminished. It t?as decided to be impractical to ocnplete this drain in an effective manner wife boat machinery* Dry Gulch Arroya:- At the loser end of the Dry Culoh there i 3 an area of allotted lands that has been ruined by tho over-flcming of ^aste water carried by Dry Culch r/ash, an arroya that is the natural drainage channel for a territory of over 100 square ailes. Included In this territnry.are soma 80,000 acres of land that is no-» being irsri gated and of. this amount, about 13,000 acres are irri^ted b(y oaaals of the Indian System. Tb& Dry Cnich Irrigation Ccm-cany uaea the upper retS_haa of Dry Sulah^aah as s channel for conveying *»atur to lands irrigated bry stooi-holders, and alao baa filed 7jith tha State Engineer, applications to appropriate such v/aste rater as the wash may accumulate. Pare tie ally &rery acre of tho 40,000 acres of the Dry Culoh Irrigation Company*3 Project ia in the drainage area served by Dry Duloh V?ash, and the greater part of the acreage is -within a fow mil as of the Indian larda over-flowed. The noils on the lands irrigated a bo ve the flooded area are of __:aoh a nature that they rash easily, and aro carried in suspension by th© irrigating streams to Dry i*. i) . 0 |