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<br />.... <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />t <br /> <br />Loveland, to a point eight miles west of Loveland, and a permanent 115,000 <br />volt circuit 16 miles long from this point to Estes Park; also a temporary <br />44,000-volt circuit six miles long to the east portal of the Alva B. Adams <br />Tunnel. <br /> <br />A 115,OOO-volt circuit, 54 miles long from Greeley to Fort ~organ with <br />a 6-mile extension to ~iggins, a 15.5 mile extension to Prospect Valley, <br />and a 10.5 mile extension to Brush was construc4ed by contract. This line <br />was constructed to furnish electrical energy to the Morgan County Rural <br />Electric Association and the City of Fort Morgan, Colorado, from power gQ~- <br />erated at the Bureau'.s Seminee po-ner plant in Wyoming, and later from power <br />generated on the Colorado-Big Thompsen Project. <br /> <br />Completed lines previously described total 195 miles. Lines to be <br />built more i~rrediately comprise (a) an extension of the 115-kilovolt Greeley- <br />Brush line to Sterling, Colorado and a 69-kilovolt line from Sterling to <br />HOlyoke and substations at Sterling and Holyoke, (b) a 38-mile 11S-kilovolt <br />line from Granby p~ping plant over Buchanan Pass to Estes Par~ and (c) a <br />31-mile 115-kilovolt line from the present terminus of the Estes Park to <br />Loveland line to the Greeley s1,lbstation. <br /> <br />lRRIGATlON <br /> <br />The lands to receive the supplemental supply of'310,000 acre-reot com- <br />prise 615,000 acres in northeastern Colorado. <br /> <br />There are 175,000 people living in the territory benefit~d by this <br />project, who derive their livelL~ood either directly or indirectly from <br />farming. The total actual value of all agricultural properties in the are~) <br />including equipment and livestock, now amounts to nearly ~210,000,OOO. This <br />amount does not include the nontaxable irrigation systems or educational <br />and religious institutions which have a total physical valuation of more <br />than $75,000,000. <br /> <br />It has been estimated that there has been an average annual loss, prior <br />to project construction of ~4,700,000 due to the shortage of irrigation <br />water. With present prices, tr.is amounts to about 07,000,000 per year. <br />The supplemental water vdth prewar prices will increase crop and livestoCk <br />production fully $13,000,000 annually. With present pl'ices the crop in- <br />crease would be fully $22,000,000. Increased crops mean increased popula- <br />tion on the farms and much more in the to~~s and cities. <br /> <br />This project differs from reclamation projects in publ~c land areas, <br />where the irrigation system, from the main canals to the individual farm <br />laterals must be constructed, settlers brought in, buildings erected, and a <br />large amoQ~t of work done before the farms and irrigation systems are going <br />units. On this project irrigation systems are built, buildings are erected, <br />and the settlers are producing crops on the land. The supplemental water <br />will enable planting larger parts of the farm in years of shortage, and the <br />maturing of planted crops, as well as more stabilized cropping practices. <br />!IJore higher value crops will be grOlffi and more livestock and livestock pro- <br />ducts produced. <br /> <br />8 <br />