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<br />Also data as to crop production and a statement of assossed valuation
<br />of the different Counties, and of livestock. It shows a valuation
<br />of $32,000,000.00 for Rio Grande, Alamosa and Saguache Counties and
<br />the valuation of livestock in those same countios at $1,169,000.00. It
<br />shows a statomont of the production, in dollars, sot up for each of
<br />tho three counties for tho years 1927 to 1936 inclusi vo, with a range
<br />of production in A1amosa County of $484,530.00 .in 193~ to production
<br />in A1amosa County in 1936 of $1,790,300.00; production in Rio Grande
<br />County showing a range of production of $972,000.00 in 1931 to
<br />$6.489,593.00 in 1936 and a range of production in Saguache County
<br />of $522,720.00 in 1931 to $2.269,803.00 in 1936. As a basis for this
<br />statement, the figures were taken from those of the State Board of
<br />Immigration as publishod in their year book, to show the difference
<br />in produotion by bushols of the principal orops of wheat, oats,
<br />barloy, potatoos and hay, comparing the yoars between 1931 and 1936
<br />for these threo counties, and have multiplied the dollars between
<br />the production in 1931 and 1936 bya ton year average prioe for these
<br />products, which shows a difforence in dollars of $5,095,000.00 for
<br />theso yoars~ There is also included a statement of damage to bridges
<br />in Rio Grande County from 1905 to 1935, based upon figures furnished
<br />by Mr. C1yton l~ackey, Road Supervisor of Rio Grande County, covering
<br />outlay for materials only: for bridges, $45,650.00 and for roads
<br />$26,600,00. Between 1911 and 1936 a large sum of money was spent
<br />for oribbing and rip-rapping in ordor to straighten out the river
<br />channels after the 1911 and 1921 floods, whioh amount was $15,000.00.
<br />This amount is aside from the oost of repairs to bridges and roads.
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<br />I have a statement from O. A. Lindstrom~ who is Seoretary of the
<br />Rio Grande Water Users Assooiation and the Rio Grande Canal Water
<br />Users Assooiation, and has been County Commissioner for 14 years, and
<br />is now County Commissioner of Rio Grande County. (Statement attaohed
<br />and' marked Exhibit 12.)
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<br />Mr~ Lindstrom: (Center, Coloradn) Our trouble is the cost of
<br />repairing bridges after floods, replacing rip-rapping on the river
<br />and suoh as that. We have spent fran five thousand to ten thousand
<br />dollars a year on maintenance on the'river, and this is shown in
<br />detail ln our brief. Some of tho dams on tho river nocessi to. te
<br />partial recongtruction every year and aftor big floods, complete
<br />recon struoti on. Crop lands suffer extensively due to the unregulated
<br />flow of tho Rio Grande; if the flew were regulated this expenso would
<br />practioally bo eliminated. Thase floods mako our highways hazardous
<br />beoause of the washing out of bridges whioh cross the rive~, and these
<br />are expensi VI) struotures; also thero aro many bridges owned privately
<br />whioh requir e repairs or reconstruction after these high waters. Also
<br />the railroad oompany, the Denver and Rio Grande Wostern, has oonsiderab1e
<br />expenso in ~his respeot - trains and mails are delayed some time, almost
<br />every year. I cannot say what this damage is, but it is a largo item
<br />of exponse. All this oould be overoome by regulating the river..
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