SEEPAGE OR RETURN WATERS FROM IRRIGATION. 37 
than the area irrigated, if the figures are otherwise correct The 
seres r.l y th,S taWe aS irrigated in 1894, exceeded 116,000 
severs! l! P r'° US yoar U WaS less ' The increase amounted to 
seveial thousand acres per annum, principally under the outer 
ditches, and at the lower end of these canals. The drainage from 
enters the Pls^ 8 T* ^ l nter the Poudre - but ^Lad it 
enters the Platte directly, and through the Lone Tree and Crow 
creek valleys. This seepage has amounted to probably not less 
lan from twelve to twenty second-feet during the past few years 
Rm 1 a m J he see P a .g e of the p latte and cannot be separated.’ 
from 11 pnnn lng * hat a th ’ S area ls tnbutar y to the Poudre, we have 
n 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 
lhe seepage known to be caught and stored in reservoirs is more 
jr an t0 make the re turn 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 fooTper 
second returns from still fewer acres. 1 
TABLE VI. 
a> 
X 
E 
a 
tz 
© 
o 
C 
© 
t. 
© 
© 
w 
a7 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
Name of Canal. 
(Col. 2) 
N. Poudre canal 
Box Elder canal 
Canon . 
Larimer Co. 
Jackson ditch. .. 
Larimer & Weld. 
New Mercer . 
Larimer Co. 
Fort Collins. 
Box Elder 
13 Watrous, W. and S.. 
Ames, P. and C. d’s. 
[Lake . 
(Cache a la P. No.2.. 
Whitney. 
Eaton and Jones.... 
No. 3. 
Boyd and Freeman.. 
Ogilvy. 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
00 
v 
f- 
IS 
+-> 
O 
© 
GO 
£ 
§§ 
t- 
a 
CD 
ce 
U-4 
r—4 
cd 
CD 
CD 
cd 
GO 
o. 
c 
tH 
o 
f-i 
<D 
P 8 
<3 
O 
O 
(3) 
| (4) 
09 
( 6 ) 
(7) 
9.074 
7.081 
843 
795 
2.430 
• 1,280, 1,000 
50 
100 
497 
197 
160 
5 
90 
27,844 11,131 
4.010 
12,847 
3.160; 991 
1,131 
223 
453 
3 2,054i 453 
786 
145 
886 
59,507 
15,123 
7 428 
878 
32,182 
8,221 
: 3,110 
1.750 
470 
2.234 
4.256 
1,867 
1,664 
174 
1,020 
8,623 
985 
2.751 
61 
2,680 
1,179 374 
492 
45 
387 
1.735 
1,028 
270 
144 
351 
120 
75 
20 
25 
1,468 
1,303 
409 
295 
646 
6.242 
2,076 
1,007 
156 
1.762 
33,173 
11,128 
5.032 
704 
15,065! 
2,080 
683 
358 
55 
652 
360 
149 
75 
119 
135 
1,275 
480 
147 
103 
517 
900 
158 
90 
350 
3001 
3,800 
1,728 
720 
.... 
1,3571 
176,848 
61,120 
29,193 
4,722 
76,119 ! 
H3 
Cd 
dD 
CD • 
CO CD c 
o-cm 
cd tL-i 
o 
C0 
x 6 
( 8 ) 
63,626 
1,200 
427 
120,338 
5,246 
4,542 
390,601 
19.746 
48,015 
56.191 
1.944 
3.178 
17,036 
36,698 
236.689 
10.461 
1,900 
3,015 
3,150 
20,755 
-c 
qb 
3 
ffi 
O 
SZi 
a 
fH 
O 
o 
79 r 
3,775 
25 
300 
4,075 
iod 
6.702 
1,972 
2,032 
280 
65 
95 
L755 
3,855 
3,670 
100 
250 
’366 
00 
O 
cd 
GC 
6 
Sz 
oT 
© 
o 
Dp 
GO) 
5,687 
200 
500 
113,795 
350 
2,770 
554,303 
3,655' 
13,448 
10.389 
860 
3,184 
600 
11,070 
23,280 
602,485 
17,500 
2,240 
14,652 
7,000 
29,660 
4.72 2 76,1 19 1.045 ,258 2 9,351 1,417,628 116,228 
CD 
„ <D 
CD - 
CD rt 
® ® 
uJ vJL 
« 9 
<3 «S 
© 
_ . 
31 
an 
1.993 
280 
300 
16,713 
2,169 
2,101 
44.384 
5,111 
2.389 
7,638 
805 
707 
45 
165 
4,166 
22.045 
1.397 
211 
795 
742 
2.072 
ft 
<! 
t- 
© • 
-*-J -Hi • 
edai ^ 
ots £ 
S 
a^c 
3 ft 
o 
a 
< 
( 12 ) 
18,306 
27,830 
7,984 
7L225 
17,387 
11,110 
18,545 
11,262 
70,610 
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 
janals.. The record is taken from the figures obtained by Water 
.commissioner Tenney in 1894, and include the first complete data 
or the entire valley. The data gives nearly the relative quantities, 
