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Show I scarcely been touched, according to ! a bulletin on irrigation In that state issued bv the department of agriculture. agricul-ture. D.iiing the present jear more I than 370,000 acres ' of new land will 1 be brought under Irrigation In the state. Under the state laws eanaU are common carriers, so that farmers owulng water In a reservoir not controlled con-trolled by the ditch company can get water by paying the carrying charge?, usually about $2 per million cubic, feet. Whereas ten cars ago there were ! only a few small plants run by water power, today there are ten water power plants with a capacity of l.nno horsepower each; forty-two smaller plants each with a capacity of from 7.", to 100 horsepower and thre large I ones under construction, with a total I power of nearly 30,000 horsepower. WATER POWER OF I COLORADO IS GREAT Washington, Julv 28. The water I power possibilities of Colorado have I |