348 J. W. Powell's Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. 
to which it is practicable to convey them by canals, and these 
lands were measured in order to determine the agricultural 
eanals. Five million dollars is probably a moderate estimate 
of the cost of redeeming the 500,000 acres that are susceptible 
of reclamation, and the requisite capital will have to be con- 
centrated upon a small number of large canals. 
Since the first settlement of the territory in the year 1847 
PRA OE ies sce 0 
