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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />CRAPrER III <br /> <br />BASES FOR ANALYSES <br /> <br />--~.;- <br /> <br /> <br />, <br />..i. <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />t;^'< <br /> <br /> <br />Farm herd U~ u~~f on irrigated pasture congregates <br />around watering pond. <br /> <br />Farm size and excess lands <br /> <br />The irrigated acreages required for efficient farm operation would <br />be in excess of the 160 acres for which water could be provided for a <br />Federal reclamation project under existing law but would be equivalent <br />to 160 acres of class 1 land. The equivalent of 160 acres of class 1 <br />land is considered to be 210 acres of class 2 land and 240 acres of class <br />3 and 3M land. Thus each acre of class 2 land is considered equivalent <br />to 0.76 acre of class 1 land and each acre of class 3 and 3M land is con- <br />sidered equivalent to 0.67 acre of class 1 land. If irrigation develop- <br />ments' were undertaken, special legislation would be necessary to permit <br />delivery of project water to the acreage equivalents of 160 acres of class <br />. 1 land. ~\ <br /> <br />Excess land does not pose a problem on the Basalt Project. Only one <br />ownership, containing approximately 600 acres of nonirrigated land, would <br />have to be divided in order for all of the acreage to receive water from <br />the project. <br /> <br />Irrigators' payments <br /> <br />The estimated amounts that would <br />irrigators represent the irrigators' <br /> <br />be recommended for payment by the <br />estimated gross farm income less <br /> <br />24 <br />