SEEPAGE OK RETURN WATERS FROM IRRIGATION. 
37 
than the area irrigated, if the figures are otherwise correct. The- 
area shown by this table as irrigated in 1894, exceeded 116,000 
acres. In the previous year it was less. The increase amounted to 
several thousand acres per annum, principally under the outer 
ditches, and at the lower end of these canals. The drainage from 
a portion of this area does not enter the Poudre, but instead it 
enters the Platte directly, and through the Lone Tree and Crow 
creek valleys. This seepage has amounted to probably not less- 
than from twelve to twenty second-feet during the past few years 
but IS included in the seepage of the Platte and cannot be separated! 
But, considering that all this area is tributary to the Poudre, we have 
from 116,000 acres a return of 104J cubic feet per second on the 
average, or one cubic foot per second from each 1,100 acres irrigated. 
The seepage known to be caught and stored in reservoirs is more 
than enough to m.ake the return one cubic foot per second for less 
than 1,000 acres. In 1895 it amounted to one cubic foot per second 
to every 700 acres. In the case of the Platte, one cubic foot per 
second returns from still fewer acres. 
TABLE VI. 
Reference Namber. 
Name of Canal. 
Total Acres. 
Pasture and Waste 
Land. 
Acres Alfalfa. j 
(1) 
((’ol. 2) 
(3) 
(4) 
(^) 
1 
N. Poudre canal_ 
9.074 
7 081 
843 
2 
Box Elder canal .... 
1,280 
1,000 
50 
3 
Canon . 
497 
197 
160 
4 
Larimer Co. 
27,844 11.131 
4,010 
5 
Jackson ditch. 
3,160 
991 
1,131 
6 
Small ditches, n. side 
2,054 
453 
786 
7 
Larimer & Weld. 
59,507 
15,123 
7 428 
8 
Pleasant Valley & L. 
8,221 
3,110 
1,750 
9 
New Mercer. 
4,2.56 
i;867 
1,664 
10 
Larimer Co. No. 2.. 
8,623 
985 
2,751 
11 
Fort Collins. 
1,179 
374 
492 
12 
Box Elder . 
1.735 
1,028 
270 
13 
Watrous, W. andS.. 
120 
75 
20 
14 
Ames, P. and C. d’s. 
1,468 
1,303 
409 
15 
Lake. 
6,242 
2,076 
1,007 
16 
Cache a la P. No.2.. 
33,173 
11,128 
5,032 
17 1 
Whitney. 
2,080 
683 
358 
18 1 
Eaton and Jones.... 
360 
149 
75 
19 i 
No. 3. 
1,275 
480 
147 
20 i 
Boyd and Freeman.. 
900 
158 
90 
21 , 
Ogilvy. 
3,8001 
1,728 
720 
1 
Totals. 
176,848! 
61,120 
29,193 
Grass. 
Other Crops. 
i Wheat, Oats and 
j Barley. 
No. of Bushels. 
Corn, No. of Bushels. 
Potatoes, No. Sacks. 
Total Acres, Less 
Waste and Pastures. 
Amount of Water Ap¬ 
plied, 1894. 
Acre-feet. 
(6) 
(7) 
(8) 
(9) 
(10) 
(11) 
(12) 
795 
2.430; 
63,626 
3,775 
5,687 
1.993 
18,306 
.... 
100 
1,200 
25 
200 
280 
5 
90 
427 
300 
500 
300 
.... 
12.847 i 
120,838 
4,075 
113,795 
16,713 
27,8.30 
223 
453 
- 5,246 
.... 
350 
2,169 
7,984 
145 
886 
4,542 
100 
2,770 
2.101 
8_m 
32,182| 
390,601 
6.702 
554,303 
44.384 
77,225 
470 
2.234 
19.746 
1,972 
3,655 
5,111 
17,387 
174 
1,020 
48,015 
2,032 
13.448 
2.389 
11,110 
61 
2.680 
56.191 
280 
10,389 
7,6.38 
18,545 
45 
387 
1.944 
65 
860 
805 
144 
351; 
3,178 
95 
3.184 
707 
.... 
251 
600 
45 
295 
646 
17,036 
1.7.i5 
11,070 
165 
156 
1 762[ 
36.698 
3,855 
23,280 
4,166 
11,262 
704 
15,065 
236.689 
3,670 
602.485 
22.045 
70,610 
55 
652! 
10.461 
100 
17,500 
1,397 
119 
135 
1.900 
250 
2,240 
211 
103 
517 
3,015 
14,652 
795 
350 
300: 
3,150 
300 
7,000 
742 
.... 
l,357i 
1 
20,755 
29,660 
2.072 
4,722 
76,119' 
1,045,258 
29,351 
1,417,6281 
116,228 
260,259 
§ 26. The foregoing table shows the distribution of the irri¬ 
gated land, and of the water applied in the valley, according to the 
canals.^ The record is taken from the figures obtained by Water 
Commissioner Tenney in 1894, and include the first complete data 
for the entire valley. The data gives nearly the relative quantities, 
