IRRIGATION IN NORTHERN COLORADO. 
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Table 11. — Waiter in acre-feet used by the canals of the valley in 1917. 
DIRECT FLOW. 
April 
May. 
June. 
July. 
August 
Sep- 
tember, 
Octo- 
ber. 
Total. 
North Poudre Canal 
Poudre Valley Canal 
Pleasant Valley and Lake Canal. 
Larimer County Canal 
Jackson Ditch 
Little Cache la Poudre Ditch i. 
Taylor and Gill Ditch 
Larimer County Canal No. 2. . . 
New Mercer Canal 
Arthur Ditch 
Larimer and Weld Canal 2 
Josh Ames Ditch 
Lake Canal 
Coy Ditch 
Chaffee Ditch 
Boxelder Ditch 
Greeley Cana! No. 2 
Whitney Ditch 
B. H. Eaton Ditch 
Jones Ditch 
Greeley Canal No. 3 
Boyd and Freeman Ditch 
Ogilvy Ditch 


453 



264 



762 









275 


Total 1,754 
318 

202 
8,087 
86 

231 

47 
281 
2,188 

213 



2,164 

329 

946 
8,588 
472 
4,945 
22, 626 
1,261 
1,026 
560 
4,096 
3,075 
1,495 
31, 957 
178 
5,454 

286 
1,272 
18, 349 
843 
1,071 
85 
2,899 
134 
2,297 
10, 069 
1,165 
6,171 
25, 386 
1,645 
505 
810 
6,795 
3,592 
2,241 
28, 983 
698 
6,156 
204 
514 
1,255 
27,132 
1,478 
1,261 
29 
4,544 
354 
3,284 
1,370 
88 
3,119 
6,672 
1,079 
893 
784 
288 
1,214 
453 
2,996 
532 
158 
363 
198 
1,645 
4.687 
1, 635 
989 
381 
3,170 
538 
3,212 
400 
51 
1,669 
1,921 
558 
204 
560 
43 
42 
56 
1,003 


41 

991 
1,051 
997 
477 
457 
2,653 
254 
2,090 
15,874 112, 
134,271 
36,464 
15,518 
20,745 
1,776 
16, 559 
64,692 
4,644 
2,628 
3,209 
11,222 
7,970 
4,526 
67, 889 
1,408 
11, 981 
608 
998 
5,163 
53,383 
4,953 
4,148 
952 
14,487 
1,376 
11,580 
316, 897 
STORAGE. 
April 
May. 
Tune. 
July. 
Au- 
gust. 
Sep- 
tem- 
ber. 
Octo- 
ber. 
Total. 
Grand 
total. 
North Poudre Canal 
Poudre Valley Canal 
Pleasant Valley and Lake Canal 
Larimer County Canal 
Jackson Ditch 
Little Cache la Poudre Ditch *.. 
Taylor and Gill Ditch 
Larimer County Canal No. 2 — 
New Mercer Canal 
Arthur Ditch 
Larimer and Weld Canal 2 
Josh Ames Ditch 
Lake Canal 
Gov Ditch 
Chaffee Ditch 
Boxelder Ditch 
Greeley Canal No. 2 
Whitney Ditch 
B. H. Eaton Ditch 
Jones Ditch 
Greeley Canal No. 3 
Boyd and Freeman Ditch 
Ogilvy Ditch 
Total 
1,250 


1,108 



















9,512 


2,511 






1.607 











13, 192 

376 
13,883 



108 


20, 676 

1,538 



9,141 



1,021 

289 
4,818 

276 
1,772 



78 
191 
17 
7,264 

510 



5,476 



393 

95 
182 2,358 13,713 60,224 20,890 
28, 954 

652 
19, 274 



186 
191 
17 
29,547 

2,048 



14, 617 



1,414 

467 
97,367 
49, 699 
1,776 
17,211 
83,966 
4,644 
2,628 
3,209 
11,408 
8,161 
4,543 
97,436 
1,408 
14, 029 
5,163 
68, 000 
4,953 
4, 118 
952 
15, 901 
1,376 
12,047 
414,264 
1 Use under Little Cache la Poudre does not include amount delivered to Dry Creek on rights owned 
by Larimer & Weld Reservoir Co. 
2 Reservoir water used in July by Larimer and Weld Canal was advanced to canal by Windsor Reservoir 
to be paid from direct flow later. 
The gross duty for the canals of the valley by months and for the 
year, for both direct flow and storage as shown in Tables 12 and 
13, is derived from Tables 9, 10, and 11. The lowest duty is 
shown by the ditches with old rights watering the bottoms along the 
river. However, a considerable part of the water carried by them is 
wasted directly back into the river by laterals and the actual require- 
