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<br />RBFOET OF' ':::'},tE Er;GIOrL~~.t DIIlJ::;CTDH <br /> <br />Pro~ect Benefits <br /> <br />16. Development of the Lyman project Hould permit fuller utilization <br />of the area's l1'nd and water resources for the general wnlfare of the <br />immediate area and of tho Nation. The incree.sed agricultural' production <br />made possible by the additional ~[ater would provide many direct and <br />indirect benefits including dj_rect economic gai.ns on the farms as ~/el1 <br />as indirect improvements in industry, commerce, employment, ,3nd welfare. <br />The estimated benefits could not be fully realized, however, unless the <br />farmers cooperated in improving irrigation and farmine practices. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />17. 'The additional irrigation supply would increase crop yields. <br />Thus it would bring into better bala.nce the relationship between local <br />feed supplies and livestock numbers, m/l.kin[' possible increased production <br />of livestock and livestock products. With project development, annual <br />crop production values ',~ou1d be increased by an average of approximately <br />,:pJ.O.79 an acre Or' :%38,.100 for the entire project acreage. TrJe area <br />would rCH.lize a.rt (,~ven groater incr'oaDe in agricultural va-lues, however; <br />with the conversion of the feed cx'ops into livestock procluct.s. These <br />increased vnlues ~Jould almost inunediately better tho 8oL'oa' 5 economic con"': <br />ditio'ns, permitting inrpro,,rement.s In homos and farm.s and providing employ-. <br />ment oppol~unities fo~ young people who otherwise would be forced to leave <br />t.he area. They would <rtap up local purchasing power, increasing business <br />transacted locally as well as in other parts of the Nation. <br /> <br />18. Over-all anntjal benefits that would result from the development <br />