The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1911-09-15
NEW UNCOMPAHGRE MAP
FILED BY GOVERNMENT
Plat of the Various bitches Under
the Project Filed Last Week
Describes Them Minutely.

Inc dltcheS mentioned IN the map
are the Loutzenheizer canal, Selig
canal. East canal, Garnet ditch,
West canal, Montrose and Delta
canal. California canal and bitches
A, B, c, d, E and F.
Secretary Tobin, in summing up
the situation says:
The expenditures to August, 1S-
IL, were s4,56O,00O. There are ST.
100000 yet to be expended to
complete the project, aside from the
contingent construction of the Tay-
lor Park reservoir. To repay this
expenditure will be 10000 acres
of watered and reclaimed land.
The tunnel is practically completed.
The south canal is completed. The
spillway to Cedar creek and por-
tion of the east canal are complet-
ed. The south canal is completed.
The Montrose and Delta canal is
purchased and enlarged. The lat
eral covering government land
above the King lateral with siphon
over Dry creek and ditch on the
Robideaux is completed. The lat
eral across Franklin and High mesas
has been improved and enlarged.
Leaving the west canal to be con-
structed up the west side and a ditch
10 cover the territory now covered
by the Ironstone. if the lronstone
dodesn't come in. There are forty
homesteads getting Gunnisou water
this year
Secretary Fisher has taken hold
of the matter in a businesslike way
4PFinn in
pleting the project.
The various statistics concerning
these bitches as given by the map.
are as follows;
Loutzenheizer ditch-Length ST.
7s7 feet, width at top, 20 feet.
width at bottom 10 feet. depth
feet. capacity 120 second feet.
Selig canal-Length 7s.005 feet,
depth feet. width at top 80 feet,
width at bottom is feet, capacity
900 second feet.
Garnet ditch-Length 44,7l2
feet, depth feet, width at top IA
1 feet. width at bottom feet. capa-
city SO second feet.
West canal-Length 76,s46 feet,
depth feet. width at top 20 feet.
width at bottom feet, capacity ll0
second feet.
Montrose and Delta canal-Length
l63.3sO feet, depth 6 feet, width at
top 3s feet. width at bottom 90
feet, capacity 450 second feet.
Extension Montrose and Delta
canal-Length 95,771 feet. depth
feet. width at top 90 feet, width at
bottom 10 feet, capacity 100 second
feet.
California canal-Length 101,111
feet. depth feet, width at top Al
feet width at bottom 90 feet, capa-
city 400 second feet.
Ditch A.-Length 76,779 feet,
depth feet, width at top IS feet,
width at bottom feet, capacity
40 second feet.
Ditch B-Length 2s.S51 feet.
depth . feet. width at top feet
width at bottom feet, capacity 20
second feet.
Ditch C.-Length 1851 feet,
depth feet, width at top 10 feet,
width at bottom 5 feet, capacity 30
second feet.
Ditch D.-Length 25,494 feet,
depth feet, width at top s feet,
I width AT DOlAOUl lttAs NdfaNiN'
second feet.
Ditch E.-Length 10.0S5 feet,
depth . feet. width at top feet,
width at bottom feet. capacity
IS second feet.
Ditch F.-Length 2S,S29 feet,
depth . feet. width at top 10 feet,
width at bottom feet, capacity
40 second feet.
The sources of supply of these
bitches are given as the unappro-
priated waters of the Gunnison
river and the Uncompahgre river,
the surface waste. percolating drain
age and undeveloped waters flowing
in Cedar Creek. Dry Creek. Beaton
Creek, Horsefly. Dolores and Hap
by Canon creeks. Spring Creek. Coal
Creek. Dry Creek Lower Dry Creek
Robideaux Creek, Mexican gulch.
Pelton gulch, Dead Mans gulch
Buttermilk gulch and Dry gulch.