Arizona republican., 1914-03-02
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amounts of water during long, dry
 | periods. The Horseshoe reserviOr l would therefore make good adjunct
 to the present irrigation works of the
 project for the purpose of supplement- 1 ing the supply provided by them and | the board suggests that it would be
 good business policy for the water | users themselves to consider the ad
 visibility of constructing this reser-
 vior for that purpose.
 Table No. 39 gives summary of
 | lands for the whole project. This i table shows the total irrigable area of the project to be 231,929 acres. of which 219,341 acres are contracted
 with the Water Users association and 164,372 acres are cultivated. These | figures are close approximations only and do not include the lands under the Utah and Tempe canals except where they have been transferred to | the canals of the project by court order.
 Of the lands under the Western canal there are 11197 acres possible of irrigation. 9264 acres contracted with the Western Canal Construction company and 7696 acres under culti- vation, thus leaving 3501 acres not under cultivation. Of the irrigable area, all is contracted with the Water Users association except 2324 acres. Of the lands under the Highline canal there are 7165 possible of irri- gation, 591S acres contracted with the Highline Canal Construction company, and 2996 acres under cultivation, thus leaving 3169 acres irrigable not under cultivation Of the irrigable area, all is contracted with the Water Users association except 1057 acres, 547 acres of which are state school land. Owing to the inclusion of clause 3 of the memorandum of contract be- tween the United States and the Salt River Valley Water Users association in these special contracts, the acre ages covered by them are subject to the same reduction of area as the other lands of the project. Owing to the large expenditures of the water users under the Western canal and particularly under the Highline canal for irrigation works, these lands should so far as practicable be in cluded in the project.
 There are 1856 acres of state lands within the present limits of the Salt River project, all of which lie within sections 16 and 36 of each township. Of these lands 13,357 acres are irri- gable and 10,21S are under cultivation. It is the opinion of the board that the state lands will not be developed to the best interest of the project un- der a leasing system and it is sug- gested that it would therefore be ad- visable for the state to arrange to sell it's lands before the Salt River project is formally opened
 There is a considerable area within the limits of the Salt River project, not including state lands, held in large ownerships. There are 97 such tracts varying in size from 161 acres up to 6993 acres. The total area of these tracts is approximately 46,945 acres. and since there are 97 owners, there would be holdings in excess of 16O acres of about 31 ,425 acres. This figure is necessarily subject to con- siderable error owing to interlOcking ownerships.
 F There are 3S,S40 acres of public lands within the limits of the project. Of this area 3O,311 acres are irrigable
 and 16,933 acres are under cultivation. Practically the entire area of public land in the project is entered and the
 cultivated area is scattered fairly uni