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<br />001512 <br /> <br />, <br />u <br />:~ <br /> <br />.-.', <br />'\ <br /> <br />.>" <br /> <br /> <br />'I." <br /> <br />seoond_f'ee't~er aboub 80 peroent of' 'the tc)'calll.1llounb deoreed. <br /> <br />Thus~ 11' i't is 'true that rights ds.ted after 1884 de not have <br />water after the middle of' June, one would be justified in stating <br />tha'll 80 peroen'll of' the landsolaimed subjeot to irrigation, about <br />3.500 aores. suffer water shor'llages in a normal year. <br />The entire Arkansas River 'Basin in Colorado is heavily <br />over_appropriated. The majority of ditohes in the Chalk Creek area <br /> <br />have what should be considered poor rights. Ditohes in the lower <br /> <br />valley irrigate almost the year around if water is available, I'fany <br /> <br />have senior rights to those upstream and are able. todElllland that the <br /> <br />latter be closed dcmn in order to satist'y their llWll rights. <br /> <br />N1lIliber and economio status ot: f'arm. families <br /> <br />The County Agerr\l; reports 35 farms; or ranohes in the area <br /> <br />ocmpr1sing 20.101 aores. Thirty-three have some land subjeot to <br />irrigation which totals 4,439 aores" <br /> <br />There are llhree large ranches of more than 1800 aores. <br /> <br />Nineteen of the 35 ranohes have holdings of 320 aores or less. <br />Those interviewed state that they would oonsider only <br /> <br />about five or six operators within the area being able to maintlain <br /> <br />what they oonsider to be a satisfactory standard of living. It is <br />estimated that more. 'llhan half of the operators should be olassified <br /> <br />in the low-inoome group. Suoh an estimate appears justified upon <br /> <br />the basis that seven operators are standard loan olien'ts of 'the <br /> <br />Farm Seouri'ty M.ministra'tion, aboub six others have made applioation <br /> <br />'to Farm Seouri'ty, 19 opera'tor~ are on &mall holdings~ and severe <br /> <br />water shor'tages during reoen't years have made it impossible for moll'\; <br /> <br />..7.. <br />