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Plan showing existing & proposed irrigation developments on international streams in South Alberta

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Material Type
Map
Accession No.
19736243000
Physical Description
1 map : ms., col. ; 49 x 93 cm
Scope and Content
Boundaries: Shelby to Medicine Hat and Waterton Lakes National Park to Havre Shows areas entitled: Waterton Lakes National Park, Glacier National Park, Peigan Indian Reserve, United Irrig. Dist., Mountain View Irrigation District, Leavitt Irrigation District, Milk River Watershed (Foothill and Pra…
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Material Type
Map
Physical Description
1 map : ms., col. ; 49 x 93 cm
Physical Condition
Good
History Biographical
Albertan?
Acquisition Source
L N I D
Scope and Content
Boundaries: Shelby to Medicine Hat and Waterton Lakes National Park to Havre Shows areas entitled: Waterton Lakes National Park, Glacier National Park, Peigan Indian Reserve, United Irrig. Dist., Mountain View Irrigation District, Leavitt Irrigation District, Milk River Watershed (Foothill and Prairie Drainage Only), Cardston Aetna Dist., Blood Indian Reserve, Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District, Taber Dist, Possible Irrigation Area, Montana, Hudson Bay Drainage, Gulf of Mexico Drainage Shows location of: Granum, Oldman River, Pincher Creek, Macleod, Barons, Nobleford, Monarch, Kipp, Coaldale, Lethbridge, Turin, Iron Springs, Picture Butte, Belly River, Waterton Lake, Waterton Reservoir, Driggs Lake Reservoir, Waterton River, Waterton-Belly Canal, Hillspring, Belly-St. Mary Canal, Glenwoodville, Mountain View, St. Mary Reservoir, Raley, Woolford, Lee Creek, Pinepound Creek, C.P.R. Canal to be abandoned, Kimball, Whiskey Gap, N. Fork Kennedy Creek, S. Fork Kennedy Creek, Sherburne Lake Reservoir, Babb, Continental Divide, Upper St. Mary Lake, Lower St. Mary Lake, St. Mary, Glacier Park Station, Browning, Blackfoot, Syphon, St. Mary Canal, Spring Coulee, Bradshaw, Pothole Creek, St. Mary River, Magrath, Lethbridge, Kipp, Coaldale, Wilson, Stirling, Welling, Raymond, Raymond Reservoir, Milk River Ridge Reservoir, North Fork Milk River, Milk River, Cutbank, Aloe, Kevin, Sunburst, Milk River, Abandoned Canal, Warner, Verdigris Reservoir, Verdigris Coulee, McNab, New Dayton, Craddock, Wrentham, Judson, Stafford Res., Chin Reservoir, Chin, Barnwell, Taber, Oldman River, Bow River, Purple Springs, Grassy Lake, Chin Coulee, Conrad, Skiff, Crow Indian Lake, Coutts, Shelby, Massinasin, South Saskatchewan River, Burdett, Bow Island, Winnifred, Forty Mile Coulee, Legend, Foremost, Etzikom Coulee, Lucky Strike, International Boundary, Medicine Hat, Dunsmore, Whitla, Seven Persons, Bullshead, Manyberries, Pakowki Lake, Eastern Crossing, Walsh, 4th Meridian, Fresno Dam, Fresno, Havre Legend with symbols: Constructed Canals, Proposed Canals, Existing Irrigation, Proposed Irrigation
Notes
Scale 1" = 6 miles Reservoirs and Capacity: Chin - 100,860 Ac. ft; Driggs Lake - 7,500 Ac. ft; Milk River Ridge - 80,700 Ac. ft; Raymond - 16,933 Ac. ft; St. Mary - 270,000 Ac. ft; Verdigris - 140,000 Ac. ft; Waterton - 25,000 Ac. ft; Irrigable Area : Existing - 119,778 Acs.; Future - 349,577 Acs.; Total - 499,355 Acs. Written in red pen on right side of map: Boundaries of Municipal & Improvement Dist. shown in RED. No. underlined: 34 (double underlined) = Mun. Dist. No. alone: 35 = Improvement Dist. Written in blue pen - lower right corner of map: Note: The Milk River Project of the United States extends from Havre easterly on the valley of the Milk River for about 150 miles. Written in blue pen - bottom right corner of map: W.E. (enclosed in square) 2/1/41 Piece of white paper glued to lower right side of map entitled Index to Key Numbers (appear on map as circled numbers in blue): 1. North Burdett 6601 Acs.; 2. North Grassy Lake 4416 Acs.; 4. South Burdett 1881 Acs.; 5. South Grassy Lake 3024 Acs.; 7. Yellow Lake 16713 Acs.; 9. Horsefly Lake 8586 Acs.; 11. Purple Springs 10448 Acs.; 13 Big Bend 12424 Acs.; 18 Taber West 7342 Acs.; 20 South Forty Mile 17610 Acs.; 21 North Forty Mile 38190 Acs.; 23 East Chin 39184 Acs.; 28 Cameron Ranch 7756 Acs.; 30. A.R.& I. Lethbridge 71766 Acs. & enlargement (COALDALE) 28157 Acs.; 31. A.R.& I. Raymond 8632 Acs. and enlargement 22791 Acs,; 32 A.R.& I. Magrath 1829 Acs. and enlargement 3098 Acs.; 37. East Verdigris 11112 Acs.; 42. Milk River 17248 Acs.; 43. Warner 19411 Acs.; 49. Middle Coulee 20797 Acs.; 55. South New Dayton 5534 Acs.; North New Dayton 21988 Acs.; Balancing 3288 Acs.; 62 South Magrath 5224 Acs.; 65. North Magrath 15406 Acs.; 67. West Magrath 10266 Acs.; Taber Irr. Dist. 17200 Acs.; Total Irrigable Area. * 453,056 Acres. Several areas on map outlined with blue lines (solid and dotted) and coloured
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