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293S 108.161 acres in Morgan Count.y. 17,833 acres class B irrigated land 38.752 dry farm land 43,155 acres grazing lend 8,419 acres waste land -7- The total assessed valuation for the land and personal property is: $2,069,370 Corporations assessed valuation - - - - - - - - - - - 435,730 Total assessed valuation - - - - - - - - - - - ~-2,505,100 There will be paid in for taxes from School District #50 ~88,8l2.00. To give a cross-section of business of .iiggins is as follows: The two Elevators and Potato Grcw/ers Association bought in 1950 a total of $1,232,000 of farm crops. The U. S. "overnment shipped out aboutn50,OCOin grain. Great ,Iestern Sugar bought through the Lambert Dump at Wiggins and the Hoyt Dump, 71,600 tons of sugar beets with payments todate of ~762,295, and this does not include beets grown in area north of Wiggins and delivered to Goodrich. Burlington railroad and trucks do a large volwne of business handling these crops. cattle, hogs, and sheep. Hay. irrigated pasture, cattle, hogs, sheep, and poultry are raised in large numbers. All of tilis adds up to the wealth of Community, County and State. To maintain this high dollar turn over in crops, cattle, machinery, taxes, and electricity, we want the water that now goes d~TI1 the Bijou and Kiowa creeks, causing heavy damage to farms, bridges, flwnes, roads and railroads. The small flood of August, 1951 caused the following damage: Morgan ditch flume - ,~lS,ooO.OO Morgan County roads and bridges - $25,000.00 to 030,000.00. .' The irrigated land North, South and Southwest of Wiggins in the Bijou and KiOWll valleys is now being irrigated by' deep well turbine pumps driven mostly by electric motors. There are 302 irrigation wells drawing from Morgan County REA and in turn from the Reclamation Bureau a total of 9113. H.P. with all pumps running at the same time. " The report of the U. S. Geological Survey in February, 1951, showed a low- ering of an average of 10 feet in the past ten years. Also 1.78 feet of that amount was in the year of 1950. Therefore, we want the 'later that falls in the Bijou and Kiowll water shed held in these valleys and stored underground to help maintain a more secure supply of water for pump irrigation. The water thus stored is pumped up and onto the surface, some of which is evaporated and will again come back in rain or snow to be stored and pumped again. Some of the pump_ ed water will perculate back do\~ to the underground storage to be pumped again farther dawn the valleys.