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Show 65 D. Dytla in the Declamation Peoord for .iovomber, 1013, and covers tho results of their studios to determine tho duty of water for tha Strawberry Project, Utah. I1 his Project lies about 75 miles southwest of the Uintah Project. Unfortunately, the average vater user has boen under the impression, that if he had leased 40 acres he was entitled, for irri^ati-__n purposes, to a constant 3tream flowing 40/70 of a Second Poot. 'Ibis impression is absolutely erroneous aince in distributing*water to the several claimants in order of priority, the Viater Commissioner takes iw a bssis the aiaamt of land under cultivation <md not tha tot iii aroa that could ba oulti-vated. S2B3AM FLOW; P.lver Aagings:- Deooria of tho discharge of water fron tha Duchesne Kiver or ita tributaries v. as commenced in 1399 by tha U. S. Geological Survey, but there tire unfortunately several periods bo two en that time and 1919 for which re records are available. h'ydro-jmph Do. 1 accompanying thi a roport ahowa the mean raonthly discharge of the Uintah basin streams for 1901-13. -The vital months as respecting irrigation are April, |