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<br />- OC'-:030 <br /> <br />reoo~ized t~roughout the area that under present day prices and la~or costs <br /> <br /> <br />a farmer operating a 160 aore traot whose prinoipal cash crop 1s either potatoes <br /> <br /> <br />or English peas requires an investment in equlpcent of $15,000.00 to $10,000.00. <br /> <br /> <br />Only slightly more equipment is required for a 320 aore traot. A farmer oan <br /> <br /> <br />oper~te a 320 aore traot with an equipment investment of ~bout 020,000.00. <br /> <br /> <br />Suocessful farmi~ i~ the area ca:L~ot be conducted on a amall tract. It is <br /> <br /> <br />not an area ~lich can be farmed and provide an Inco~e sufficient to meet <br /> <br />normal living standards with an investment of only a few hundred dollars in <br /> <br />equipment. =4uipment oosts per acre beoome increasingly higher as the size of <br /> <br />the tracts deorease, and the farmer's total gross inoome deoreases prObressive- <br /> <br />ly as hie acreage beoomes smaller. Production of crops in this high altitude <br /> <br />area. requires intense individual effort and the :':lost progress ive methods which <br /> <br />oan be developed. Operators of marked ability are required, with large indi- <br /> <br />vidual oapital investments in improvements suoh as land leveling, in meohtL~i~- <br /> <br />ad equip::nent, and in facilities for ha:ndli:1.r.'; a:ld storL-1g the crops after they <br />are produced. <br /> <br />IAIID LIMITATlo:r fflOvrSI01'S OF FED:R.AL =LAl1ATIOli LAIIS <br /> <br /> <br />The liational Reolanation Aot of 1902 and the aots amendatory and supple- <br /> <br /> <br />mental t.hereto are L'1tended to create a oomprehensive reolamation soheme for the <br /> <br /> <br />oonstructlo:1 and: r.w.intena.noe of irrigation .,.,orl.::s for the storage, diversion and <br /> <br /> <br />development of water to recIai::l. arid a..'"ld semi-arid publio la.:".ds. (See Henkel v. <br /> <br /> <br />U.S" 237 u. s. 43, 49) In Burley v. u. S., 119 Fed. 1,1, it was held that <br /> <br /> <br />the 1902 Aot authorized tile irrigatio:1 of arid lands in private ownership as <br /> <br /> <br />well as irrigation of arid lands in public ovmership. <br /> <br /> <br />MBD7 reaso~s have been assigned for the inolusion of the land limita- <br /> <br /> <br />tieD provisicns in the reol~~ation laws. The funda~eDtal purpose v~s undoubted- <br /> <br /> <br />ly 'to pre....e:1t speculation s..'1d assure t::e.t t.'1.e inere:ne~tal land v:uue, resultiZlg <br /> <br />- 11 - <br />