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Excerpt from Use of Water in Irrigation
Extent of Irrigation in the United States. - The extent of irrigation in the United States is shown in the following table compiled from Census data. The first column of figures gives the acreage actually irrigated in 1909, in each of the seventeen western states, the Gulf states and throughout the humid region, the second column the acreage which the enterprises were capable of irrigating in 1910 and the third column the acreage included in enterprises either completed or under way July 1, 1910. In the last column of the table is given the estimated value Of irrigated crops in each of the seventeen western states and also in the rice belt of the Gulf states.
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