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Show TT PAYS TO IRRIGATE Gross value of crops grown upon irrigation projects operated by the Reclamation service of the Department Depart-ment of the Interior just tabulated totalled $53,000,000 in 1922. These crops represent the harveset of 1,160.000 acres and show an average av-erage yield of $45.50 per acre. Additional Ad-ditional figures show that water was sold from the great reservoirs main-1 main-1 tained by the Department of the In-: In-: terio rr fot hetmfryairwp mtftrtrtd jterior for the irrigation of about a million acres of land largely in private pri-vate ownership and the crops were produced upon them i nl922 amounting am-ounting to $33,000,000. Another feature is the fact that since water was first made ava'.HKe for the growing of crops on these Irrigation Ir-rigation projects built and operated by the Reclamation service the gross value of crops has reached half a billion dollars while another half a billion dollars has been added to' the assessed value of the agricultural land and town property upon them. |