MURI'HV: IRRI(;ATI0N in WKSTERN' KANSAS. 



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The head works are similar to those of the Garden City canal, and 

 are located '^ mile southeast of Deerfield. The total cost of the 

 work was ^35,000; the annual rental is from Si. 25 to S2.00 per acre. 

 The canal commands an area of 20,000 acres. 



The South Side canal was constructed in 1883 by individuals. It 

 is located on the south side of the river and is designed to irrigate 

 bottom land only. It is 25 miles long and has 40 miles of laterals; 

 is 20 ft. wide at bottom, 3^2 ft. deep, and has the same grade as the 

 land irrigated. I'he head-works are located i '-^ miles west of Hart- 

 land, and consists of a wing dam of sod and sand bags, a set of gates 

 40 ft. wide and a fountain or underflow ditch. The total cost of this 

 work was $200,000; the annual rental is Si. 50 per acre. It com- 

 mands an area of 50,000 acres, 25,000 of which are said to be 

 irrigated. 



The Southwestern canal, formerly called the (jreat Eastern, was 

 constructed in 1881 by the Great Eastern Irrigation Water Power Co. 

 The present owners are the Southwestern Irrigation Co. It is located 

 on the north side of the river and is designed to irrigate the upland. 

 It is 40 miles long and has 85 miles of laterals; its bottom width is 

 16 ft., its top width 31 ft., depth 4^4 ft., its grade is 3 ft. to the 

 mile, and it has a carrying capacity of 500 cu. ft. per sec. There 

 are two reservoirs on the canal, having an area of 1800 acres. The 

 head-works, a sketch of which is shown in fig. i, are located about 



'j mile west of Hartland. They consist of a wing dam, five gates for 

 admitting the proper amount of water into canal, a waste way with 

 six gates, and an underflow ditch. This underflow ditch, like the 

 others already described, has not jiroven a success, and a couple of 

 years ago the channel A B was cut to the river at the upper end of 

 the fountain, thus enabling water to be taken direct from the river at 

 two places. The amount invested in this canal and head-works is 

 $60,000; the annual rental is $2.00 per acre. It commands an area 

 of 50,000 acres, 10,000 of which are said to be irrigated. 



The Amazon canal was partly constructed in 18S7-8 by the Amazon 

 Irrigation Co. and was reconstructed in 1891 by the Southwestern 

 Kansas Land and Irrigation Co. The present owners are the Syn- 

 dicate Land and Irrigation Corporation. It is the longest canal in 



