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<br />co <br />0') <br />~ <br /> <br />~ 20 - <br /> <br />The addition of land to present units would seem to be feasible if operators <br /> <br />wish to do so. Nel, land which is to come under the project as proposed is scattered <br /> <br />in several different locations, and most of the existing ranches in the area have <br /> <br />some potential new project lands located within one to ten miles of them. For <br /> <br />instance, Dixon and Savery are located four miles apart, and quite a number of ranch <br /> <br />operators live in or near each of these communities. The Dolan Mesa area is situated <br /> <br />along the hiphway connectinp them. Much of the additional project lands lies to the <br /> <br />south and west or the town of Bag~s and near to a number of ranch headquarters 10- <br /> <br />cated along the Snake River bottomlands. <br /> <br />The present investment in buildings and improvements on existing ranches would <br /> <br />be very nearly adequate for the operation of additional project lands. Additional <br /> <br />fencing and perhaps stock-watering facilities would be necessary on new oroject lands. <br /> <br />Grain stora~e, feedlots,and feed processing and handling equipment would also be <br /> <br />required if the feeder enterprise were added, but few other additional improvements <br /> <br />would be required. <br /> <br />Ranches in the project area are presently well equipped with trucks, tractors, <br /> <br />and other farm machinery adequate to handle a fairly large haying job in about a 40- <br /> <br />day time period from mid-July to the first of September. Ranches presently producing <br /> <br />alfalfa hay and small grains have use for their farm equipment both earlier and <br /> <br />later in the year, but still an excess of machine capacity exists on many ranches <br /> <br />for work in the early part of the vear and also in September. Practically all of <br /> <br />the machinery requirements on small grains are in April and May except harvesting, <br /> <br />and machinery requirements for alfalfa can be spread from mid-June to mid-July and <br /> <br />from mid-August to mid-September. Consequently, a substantial acreage of project <br /> <br />lands devoted to small grains and alfalfa production could be handled by existing <br /> <br />ranch operators with very little investment in additional machinery and equipment. <br />