SEEPAGE OR RETURN WATEKS FROM IRRIGATION. 
35 
TABLE IV. 
SUMMARY OF PRECEDING TABLES, SHOWING GAIN IN SEEPAGE OF 
SOUTH PLATTE RIVER. 
(In cubic feet per second.) 
Mouth of Poudie to Hardin ditch. 
Hardin ditch to Putnam ditch. 
Putnsm ditch to Fort Morgan canal.... 
Fort Morgan canal to P &B. canal ... 
P. & B. canal to Snyder. 
Snyder to Merino. 
Merino to Sterling. 
Sterling to I] iff. 
Iliff to Crook. 
Crook to State line. 
Totals. 
Average per mile. 
No. of 
Oct. 
Oct. 
Oct. 
Mar. 
Oct. 
Oct 
Oct. 
Ave.. 
Miles. 
1889. 
1890. 
1891. 
1892. 
1893. 
1894. 
1895. 
8 
49.0 
68.7 
75.5 
69.1 
69.0 
23.9 
79.0 
62.0 
12 
5i!3 
-18.8 
16.6 
45.4 
-33.7 
50.5 
43.0 
17.2'. 
14 
27.0 
15 3 
29.5 
°60.8 
°68.3 
°152.5 
57.8: 
11 
.... 
6.5 
38.3 
*72.7 
50.3 
65.4 
46.0 
14 
79^6 
17.1 
98.2 
.... 
15.0 
24.8 
94.3 
49.0 
18 
21.3 
-20.3 
.... 
34.7 
58.7 
158.5 
55.4 
14 
32.8 
29.7 
33.4 
• • « 
33.8 
t25.8 
46.8 
33.1 
9 
4.4 
14.0 
28.1 
• • • • 
24.8 
17.8 
17.0 
17.T 
r7 
.... 
.... 
-13.1 
• . . • 
• • • < 
0.1 
-48.1 
-20.0 
36 
.... 
.... 
3.3 
.... 
.... 
-34.2 
-32.9 
-21.3: 
151 
217.1 
165.5 
275.3 
216.7 
254.7 
301.1 
510.1 
298. T 
2.2 
1.7 
1.8 
1.6 
2.6 
2.0 
3.4 
2.0 
* Opposite Fort Morgan. ^Schaefer’s Ford, t Below Pawnee. 
§ 24. We also include the results of the measurtnients on the 
Upper Platte, from the canon, 22 miles above Denver, to the mouth 
of the Cache a la Poudre, a total distance of 74 miles. The meas- 
urements were usually made continuous with those of the Lower 
Platte, though here given separate. In 1895 they were made after 
the Lower Platte was completed. These measurements were made* 
under direction of the various State Engineers, with the exception 
of the first, which was made under direction of Col. E. S. Nettleton 
in connection wdth the U. S. Irrigation Survey. 
TABLE V. 
SEEPAGE INCREASE OF THE UPPER SOUTH PLATTE FROM CANON. 
(In cubic feet per second.) 
Distance in 
Miles from 
Canon. 
Oct. 
18, 
1889 
Oct. 
14, 
1890. 
Oct. 
23, 
1891. 
Mar. 
7, 
1892. 
Oct. 
30- 
Nov. 
1893. 
Off 
29- 
Nov. 
4, 
1894. 
Nov. 
1895. 
© 
> 
To head of City ditch. 
6 
8.95 
27.6 
26.0 
18.4 
49 2 
19.4 
24 9 
Littleton. 
12 
59.30 
18.9 
83.2 
73.9 
50.1 
84.6 
80.4 
64.3 
Denver. 
22 
64.1 
70.8 
105.0 
137.4 
94.9 
‘221.6 
198.2 
127 4 
Fulton ditch. 
28% 
• . » • 
110.4 
146.5 
149.4 
i:38.8 
256.0 
179.0 
163.0 
Brighton . 
35)^ 
91.6 
115.8 
181.8 
124.5 
164.6 
306.0 
214.1 
171 & 
Elwood and Wheeler ditch. 
441/2 
133.6 
191.3 
228.3 
145.7 
220.4 
342.6 
272.0 
219 11 
PJatteville. 
51K 
147.9 
. 
236.5 
189.9 
230.6 
371.0 
336.8 
252^.1 
above St. Vrain. 
56>^ 
. 
172.7 
242.9 
(2£W 8} 
Union ditch. 
60^ 
161.4 
• • • • 
264.5 
426.6 
357 5 
3C^5 
Latham. 
68 
211.5 
192.8 
:108.8 
262.7 
291.7 
478.4 
381.1 
295.. 3 
Cache a la Poudre river. 
74 
260.* 
232.1 
305.7 
226.0 
329.9 
501.8 
4:38.3 
382.0 
♦Interpolated. 
The sums given in this table will be found to differ from those 
given in the reports of the State Engineer. In many cases the 
seepage collects in side channels, and runs to the river. Where there 
is good reason to know that it is seepage, it seems better to include 
this as a part of the seepage inflow^ of the river. The examination 
