The Ordway new era., 1920-01-16
CROP ACREAGE

Mr.. Beavers report is rs follows:
To the Board of directors and
stockholders of the Twin Lakes Res
ervoir & Canal Company and The
Lake Meredith Reservoir Company.
l herewith submit to you the fol-
lowing report of the approximate
acres of crop grown, the amount of
water which was used on each acre
of land cultivated, the improvements
made and the neeced improvements
for the year 1920.
AS all seasons are different as to
water supply and to the value of the
water when 1t is applied, SO was the
season of 1919. The. bulk of the
snow in the mountains was below
the 5000 It. elevation and as the
lower snow goes off first the river
was high during the early spring
and on May 80 the highest river for
the season was recorded, being 5000
IT. at Pueblo, while the average of
high water for the past twenty-five
years is reached about June 20th
consequently we were able to draw
but two days OF river water in June.
while for the seasons Of 1917 and
1918 we drew river water almost
continuously thru the month of June
but when we loose at one point we
gain at another as we were able to
store water in the Twin Lakes up to
the 18th of May and on May LIST both
of our reservoirs, Henry and Mere
dith, were filled to their highest
capacity, the Twin Lakes being a
bout 1-3 filled or as follows The
Twin Lakes had stored of available
water 16.086 A F., Lake Henry 7.017
A. F., and Meredith 22,943 A. F.. a
oxnI 80
ductions for seepage and evapor-
alton of the Twin Lakes and Mere
dith water we put thru the Olney
Flume from May LIST to August 3Oth
of river water 13,49S A. F., of Twin
Lakes water 14,154 A. F., of Mere
dith Reservoir water 21.73O A. F.,
while Lake Henry had stored 7,017
A. F., being total of 5000 A F.
This amount was distributed to
47,427 acres of land or / IT. 2A in.
to each acre with an average rain
fall for Olney Springs. Ordway and
Sugar City of 8 "a inches added
would give us approximately two
feet of water used to grow the crop
of 1919. However, this does not
take into account the wet condition
of the land on May LIST caused by
the winter SHOWS
improvements.
The Kramer Creek Flume has
been completed and the water was
turned thru 1t for the first time
November 9th. 1919 and to the
present it has proved to be very sat
isfactory.
The drop from the Canal into the
Bob Creek inlet to Meredith had to
be extended which is about COM
pleted. The height from which the
water had to be cropped from the
Canal to Lake Meredith at its 10 IT.
level is 1913 feet to the mile. By
the Bob Creek inlel the distance is
\ miles. being 1876 IT. to the mile.
1t is found that when a canal is con-
structed at greater fall than 2.5
feet of fall to the mile 1t will erode.
Hence It will be seen that drops will
have to be maintained at all times
and the filing of Lake Meredith be
assured as 1t was oar most valuable
asset for the season just past and for
this purpose suitable appropri-
alton for Lake Meredith Mainten-
Gnce should be levied. The Twin
Lakes Land & Water Company stand
ready to construct two drops as per
contract, between the Allen Berry
check and the Sugar City lateral
whenever in the opinion of the en-
gineer in charge they are needed and
it is my opinion that these drops
should be constructed this coming
year. With these drops in place
there will be eight drops on the east
inlet to Lake Meredith.
On the main canal there are two
important Canal changes which |
should be made, both of these are
very sharp turns and can easily be
Gtraightcned BY doing this the
velocity would be increased and Il
would also eliminate tho contrac-
tion of the canal caused by the
building in OF silt. As was mention |