14 BULLETIN 198, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
quarter line of the NW. J sec. 9, T. 10 S., R. 4 W.; thence in a general 
southerly direction, following the west watershed boundary of the 
district as shown on the map (fig. 3). The district should also 
include the following land in Chicot County: All that portion of 
T. 13 S., R. 1 W.j lying west of the Mississippi River levee; all that 
portion of sees. 6 and 7, T. 14 S., R. 1 W., lying west of the Mississippi 
-River levee; all of sees. 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, and 12, and those portions of 
sees. 5, 8, and 9, T. 14 S., R. 2 W., lying east of the west watershed 
boundary of the district. That part of Drew County, containing 
8,474 acres, lying east of the district watershed boundary should 
also be included in the drainage district. With these boundaries, 
the district would contain 294,784 acres, or 460:6 square miles. 
THE DITCH SYSTEM. 
In planning this system it was of course necessary to keep the 
sizes of all outlets within the limits of practical construction. For 
this reason certain diversions were necessary (see fig. 3). 
Wells Bayou, now emptying into Cypress Creek, is diverted in 
sec. 9, T. 10 S., R. 4 W., by ditch No. 13, flowing into Bayou Macon 
in sec. 3, T. 12 S., R. 3 W. It is not feasible to divert the water from 
Wells Bayou into Bayou Bartholomew on account of the high stages 
that occur in the latter stream, which probably would be considerably 
increased if Wells Bayou were discharged into it. There is an 
impression among the local residents that at times Bayou Bartholo- 
mew discharges considerable water into Wells Bayou through Cross 
Bayou in T. 9 S., R. 6 W. An examination made at this point on 
April 3, 1912, on which date occurred the highest stage ever recorded 
in Bayou Bartholomew, showed only a very small amount of water 
entering Wells Bayou from this source. 
The diversion of Cypress Creek is accomplished as follows: First, 
all that portion above the south line of sec. 13, T. 9 S., R. 4 W., is 
diverted at this point by ditch No. 19, flowing directly to Bayou 
Macon in sec. 18, T. 11 S., R. 3 W. The latter stream is to be im- 
proved from this point to Macon Lake. Second, ditch No. 43 crosses 
Cypress Creek in sec. 1, T. 10 S., R. 3 W., which will take the drainage 
from Oak Log Bayou, now tributary to Cypress Creek, directly south 
to Macon Lake. Third, by a combination of channel improvement 
and ditch No. 81 the drainage tributary to the lower end of Cypress 
Creek is carried to Macon Lake through Boggy Bayou, Boggy Lake, 
Clay Bayou, and Clay Bayou Wash. 
The diversion of the greater part of Cypress Creek into Bayou 
Macon, as noted above, will so raise the level of this stream in the 
vicinity of the present mouth of Little Bayou Macon that other pro- 
vision will have to be made for the latter outlet. The drainage tribu- 
tary to Little Bayou Macon is therefore carried south by ditch No. 18 
