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principal crop and a large acreage is here permitted to ripen for 

 seed, which in 1914 brought the farmers $160,000 from 5,500 acres. 

 Cotton has also proven very profitable on this project and with the aid 

 of the Department of Agriculture varieties particularly suited to the 

 locality have been imported or evolved. The cotton industry, now 

 temporarily suspended by the abnormal market conditions, is bound 

 to revive when these return to normal. Other profitable crops in- 

 clude the cereals, sorghum corns, cane, vegetables, and truck. Fruit, 

 especially of the citrus varieties, will undoubtedly increase in im- 

 portance with development of the project, particularly on the mesa 

 lands yet to be reached by the canal system. 



ORLAND PROJECT, CALIFORNIA. 



Near Orland, California, has been completed a relatively small 

 project, or what may be regarded as a separate unit of a large Sacra- 

 mento Valley project. The East Park Dam on Little Stony Creek 

 forms a reservoir storing the water of that stream and of Stony Creek, 

 the latter brought to the reservoir through a feed canal. By means of 

 two diversion dams near Orland the water is taken out of the stream 

 channel into canal systems suppl^'ing an area of 20,000 acres favored 

 by exceptional soil, location, transportation facilities, and climate. 



The project has been enlarged since former statements by improv- 

 ing the water supply and extending the distribution system to cover 

 an additional 6,000 acres. A diversion dam has been built in Stony 

 Creek near the headwaters and a feed canal excavated to convey 

 the water thus developed to East Park Reservoir. Near Orland 

 separate diversion works have been built for north and south side 

 canals. In accordance with the plans for the present the system is 

 now practically complete and ready to serve the entire 20,000 acres. 



•In 1914, 7,300 acres were watered, producing crops worth $176,000. 

 High priced products are grown on this project, including almonds, 

 olives, oranges, grapes, and other citrus and deciduous fruits, nuts, 

 and garden truck, as well as hay and forage crops. 



GRAND VALLEY PROJECT, COLORADO. 



The plan for this project was briefly outlined in the Smithsonian 

 report for 1910, since which construction has been undertaken and 

 about 60 per cent of the work completed. 



The diversion dam has been built in Grand River about 8 miles 

 northeast of Palisade. The presence of a railroad along the river 

 bank and the great expense involved in moving this to a higher level 

 led to a somewhat novel construction. It was necessary to control 

 the stage of the stream closely and on the approach of floods be able 

 to release quickly the back water caused by the dam. For this pur- 

 pose a roller crest structure was built, one of the few^ and the longest 



