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<br />the purehase price of the iand, relocation expenses must be paid. That <br />is the expense of moving, locating a new business or a new home or what- <br />ever it may be. <br /> <br />While the government does not provide direct assistance in relocating <br />new homes, it does~provide financial assistance. We ran into this prob- <br />lem in the Trinidad area with the Trinidad flood control project, which I <br />is now almost completed. There were a number of elderly people who <br />resided up the valley in mostly substandard housing. No sewage and in <br />most cases no running water. But it was the only home those people had. <br />They were paid quite well for their property, but even that was not <br />sufficient because they had no place to go. The state and federal <br />governments helped Trinidad develop a housing area so that we could <br />relocate those people in modern housing. It was an indirect assistance <br />but nevertheless was an assistance. Great efforts were made and we did <br />solve that problem through HUD and other federal agencies. <br /> <br />MR. ATCHISON: My name is Marvin Atchison and I would like to reply to <br />the question to Mr. Jackson. My concern is this - and I would challenge <br />the Bureau of Reclamation to find it - we have enjoyed the privilege <br />of probably five or six generations of irrigating our land at the present <br />time with all of this inflation for $2.50 an acre a year. Now get this - <br />$2.50 an acre per year. At the present time they are extending our <br />acreage through sprinkler irrigation. Ou:t:appropriation calls for a <br />hundred and sixty-five feet of water every day in the year that it is in <br />the river. <br /> <br />We ordinarily, 'under flood irrigation, use as much as maybe five acre <br />feet of water per acre. This project will take out six to ten thousand <br />acres of this type of land, under flood irrigation. Project this into <br />sprinkler irrigation which we are doing at the present time. There is <br />no place - and I'll challenge the Bureau of Reclamation to find it - <br />no place that you can replace this land at any price, where you can <br />irrigate for $2.50 an acre. <br /> <br />Now when we project this out into sprinklers, we can increase the <br />acreage three times, a minimum of three times. So the impact of this <br />project is that you are going to take out six to ten thousand acres <br />which is being projected probably up to maybe as much as twenty thousand <br />acres of irrigable land. So this is my reply to your question. I don't <br />think it's available in the nation. <br /> <br />MR. BENTON: Will there be an appreciable amount of new land brought <br />into the production because of the project for the Narrows? <br /> <br />MR. HALL: No. The project is for supplemental water for lands that <br />are currently being irrigated. <br /> <br />MR. BENTON: <br />there still <br />production? <br /> <br />MR. IRWIN: We have at the present time draft contracts with the Central <br /> <br />But even, let's say, they go more into sprinkler irrigation, <br />wouldn't be enough water to bring some new lands into <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />-8- <br />