CHAPTER X 

 COOPERATION IN IRRIGATION 



ACCORDING to the statistics of the Thirteenth Census, 

 one-third of the irrigated land in the United States in 1909 

 was under cooperative enterprises. There are 13,739,679 

 acres of irrigated land in the United States distributed 

 over different irrigation enterprises as follows : 



ACRES 



Individual and partnership enterprises 6,258,401 



Cooperative enterprises 4,646,039 



Commercial enterprises 1,444,806 



Irrigation Districts 533,142 



U. S. Reclamation Service 395,646 



Carey Act enterprises 288,553 



U. S. Indian Service 173,912 



Total 13,739,499 



"The most striking fact brought out by this table," says 

 R. P. Teele, in charge of Irrigation Statistics, Bureau of 

 the Census, in an address before the Nineteenth National 

 Irrigation Congress, "is the very large percentage of the 

 acreage irrigated by cooperative, individual, and partner- 

 ship enterprises. Of the acreage irrigated in 1909, about 

 eighty-four per cent was included in enterprises of this 

 character, placing irrigation districts in this class. Of 

 the remaining sixteen per cent, about ten per cent is in- 

 cluded in what have been classified as commercial enter- 

 prises those supplying water to parties who have no 



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