Show BIG irrigation DEAL IS GOING the tile reclamation of acres of and arid land in grand county is planned by the grand mutual development association of denver r an application has been filed by this company with the state engineer asking for the right to appropriate a hundred cubic feet per second of the flow of grand river to be used for irrigation purposed seq according to the application the water will be taken from the grand river at a point not far from cisco on the line of the denver and rio grande the length of the diverting channel will be seventy miles the tile top width of the big ditch will bo thirty feet the bottom width tn t n feet and the depth of the water ater will be five rive feet the water is 13 to bo be diverted from the grand river by a water power pumping plant and a pipeline about sixty inches in diameter and about a thousand feet long the application calls for one second foot for every seventy acres of ground |