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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



September, 



A FIELD OF ONIONS NEAR GREEI.EV, COLORADO. 

 WAS 708 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. 



THE YIELD 



and 10 feet 

 ever arise. 



deep, if necessity should 

 The outlet through which 

 the water is to be drawn for irrigation 

 purposes has a capacity of 600 cubic 

 feet, or 4,500 gallons, per second of 

 time. The discharge of this water 



what is known as No. 

 2 and No. 3 canals. 

 Both of these are large 

 and senior appropria- 

 tors of water from the 

 Cache la Poudre River. 

 The North Poudre Ir- 

 rigation Company pro- 

 poses to work its ex- 

 change idea, to the 

 great advantage of its 

 North Poudre ditch, 

 l)y delivering out of 

 P'ossil Creek Reservoir 

 to these two canals the 

 water that they are en- 

 titled to from day to 

 clay on account of their 

 appropriations on the 

 river at their head- 

 gates. Whereupon the 

 owners of Fossil Creek 

 Reservoir will call 

 upon the River Com- 

 giv^e them credit for the 

 they are delivering 



missioner to 

 amount of water 

 from day to day ; and to give them per- 

 mission, on account of thus supplying 

 the river with water, to take into their 

 North Poudre ditch about 40 miles up- 



through the outlet is governed by steel stream an equal amount for their uses on 

 gates moving vertically. These gates their lands 20 to 30 miles up the valley. 

 are governed by screw power from the Under this plan it is thought that the 



top of a stone well lead- 

 ing down through the 

 middle of the dam to 

 the stone and concrete 

 outlet culvert. 



From the winter flow 

 of the Cache la Poudre, 

 which at the point 

 where the Fossil Creek 

 Reservoir inlet leaves 

 that stream is not the 

 property or appropri- 

 ated water of any other 

 irrigation company, it 

 is proposed to fill this 

 reservoir once between 

 the ist of November 

 and the ist of April of 

 each year. The Fossil 

 Creek Reservoir outlet 

 delivers water back 

 into the Cache la 

 Poudre River at a point 

 immediately above 



A MACHINE PRESSING ALFALFA. 



