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fJ;)30:~4 '" (~ THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-MANAGER FISCAL YEAR -- 1966-1967 To THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF NORTHERN COLORADO WATER CONSERVANCY D,STRICT: SINCE THIS IS THE THIRTltTH YEAR or DISTRICT ACTIVITY, IT SEEMS APPROP~IATE TO CONSIDER WHETHER OR NOT, OR TO WHAT DEGREE, THE ORIGINAL OBJECTIVES AND PURPOSES OF THE DISTRICT HAVE eEEN FULFILLED. PREVIOUS ANNUAL REPORTS HAVE REVIEWED THE HIGHLIGHTS OF DISTRICT ACTIVITV THROUGH THE YEARS AND HAVE SUMMARIZED THE HORE IMPORTANT ACCOMPLISH- MENTS. THE RtSULT9 or T~~SE ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN TERMS or CHANGED CONDITIONS WITHIN THE DISTRICT AREA HAVE NOT, MQW(VER. BEEN COMPARED WITH INITIAL OBJECTIVES. THEREFORE, THt OP[NING or THIS THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT WILL CONSIST o~ A CQMPARISQN 8ETWEEN THE CONDITION O~ IRRIGATED AGRICULtURE IN THE DISTRICT AREA AT THE TIME or 013- , TRICT ~ORMATION AND CONDITIONS AS THEY NOW EXIST. (< DISTRICT FILeS CONTAIN REPORTS AND RECORDS ON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, WATER SUPPLIES, AND WATER USES DATING BACK TO 1905. SOME OF THESE WERE PRePARED BY VARIOUS LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL AGENCIES AT THE TIME o~ OISTRICT ~ORMATION AND SERYED AS THE BASIS fOA ECONO- MIC ~u5TlrICATION O~ THE COLORADO-BIG THOMPSON PROJECT. OTHER, SUBSEQUENT REPORTS WERE USED TO PROYE THE NEED FOR CONTINUEO APPROPRIATION O~ ~UNDS BY THE UNITED S'ATES CONGRESS ~OR CONSTRUtTION OF THE PROJECT. THESE REPOATS, AS WELL AS RECORDS DEVELOPED BY THE 015- TRICT, WERE USED AS SOU~CES ~OR THE COMPARATIVE DATA DI5CUSStO BELOW. THE RECORD SHOWS THAT IN THE THIRTy YEARS SIHCE NORTHERN COLORADO WATER CONSERYANCY DISTRICT CAME INtO BEING SOME STARTLING CHANGES H4YE TAKEN PL4CE. SOME or THEM ARt GOOD -- SOME NOT SO GOOD. FARMING PRACTICES IN 1938 BEAR LITTLE RESEMBLANCE TO THE MECHANIZ~O, SCIENTIFICAlLY M4NAGED rARMING AND FEEDING OPERATIONS OF TODAY. A WAY or LirE HAS DISAP- . PEARtD. A WAY THAT IS REMEMBEREO WITH NO,TALGIA BUT WHICH HAD TO YIELD TO INCREASING ," tCONOMIC PRESSURES rOR MORt AND MORE EF~ICIENCY.