. The opinions of the judge and the colonel as to the vast resources of Colorado .. . tional expense. The experience of allfarmers (and the farmers of Colorado acquired their experience in therain-belt states) is that artificial irrigation is far superior in every way toa dependence upon rainfall. How extensive is the irrigation system of the state? There are about 12,000 miles of main canals which feed as many more miles of lateral ditches. There are •>. >,000 acres of land under ditches in the state, and 1,(300,000 acres are being cultivated, while new irrigationenterprises are steadil
. The opinions of the judge and the colonel as to the vast resources of Colorado .. . tional expense. The experience of allfarmers (and the farmers of Colorado acquired their experience in therain-belt states) is that artificial irrigation is far superior in every way toa dependence upon rainfall. How extensive is the irrigation system of the state? There are about 12,000 miles of main canals which feed as many more miles of lateral ditches. There are •>. >,000 acres of land under ditches in the state, and 1,(300,000 acres are being cultivated, while new irrigationenterprises are steadily adding to the mileage of canals and developingnew acres of fertile lands. Is the water sold by the acre? No, it is sold by the inch, and. as a ride, an acre requires aboul aninch of water, but in many soils a half an inch is sufficient. What istermed an inch is the quantity of water that will run per second throughan inch square aperture at a certain pressure. It is easily measured andapportioned along the main canals to adjoining farms. 236045 :-;s f fflU IFWLDC HODLPDK¥§UW. Who own theseditches? Thereare sever- al systems of ownership. First:There are large companies, who—- y*^Jt^^-^ have constructed canals to irri- gate their own extensive lands, to make them saleable. Second: Purelyirrigation companies who build the canals for the purpose of deriving aprofil from the sale of water; then again some of the shorter canals arebuilt by land owners, whose lands are benefited thereby, and they pooltogether and operate their canals on a pro rata basis of stock ownership. Are there no individual ownerships? Plenty of them. The farmer who lives beside the creek or riverusually builds Ids private ditch, where the supply of water will warrant;if not, he can sink artesian wells, as they do in the San Luis Valley, orlift the water from the stream for his garden, by constructing an Egyp-tian Wheel. Is that one of them? asked the Major, pointing out of the window toa large crude wa
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