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<br />. <br /> <br />r <br /> <br />\jO'j\. <br /> <br />2. Displacement of Families <br /> <br />My topic for presentation is people, and what do you do wi th 844 <br /> <br />of them? This project has been engineered and designed with no thought <br /> <br />toward the human element. ~ere is one way the Bureau of Reclamation deals <br /> <br />with people. In their report on the Narrows Unit, Colorado. January. 1967. <br /> <br />#25. A~riculture 8conomy. page 80, it states that there will be an estimated <br /> <br />decrease of forty farm units. In reality, the actual count of active farm <br /> <br />units to be displaced is 95 active farmers or widows still living on their <br /> <br />farms and renting their land to younger farmers. Of the \'5 farmers to be <br /> <br />drowned. out by this monstrosity. 27 qualify as younG farmers, being J5 <br /> <br />years or youn~er. Where else in this ccuntry can you find 29~ of tho <br /> <br />farmers to be 35 years or younger? <br /> <br />('\ <br /> <br />What are you going to do with 95 farm families? Are they to be taken <br /> <br />to the city and put to work "dieging ditches" or pl.:t on welfare? These. <br /> <br />people are farmers and ranchers and are not trained for skilled labor <br /> <br />positions. The answer is not to buy anocher farm, becaus".thore are no <br /> <br />farms for sale at any price. I was visiting with the leading Morgan County <br /> <br />farm and ranch realtor a few days ago and he stated he had never seen so <br /> <br />few listings and that he had been approached by people who said they would <br /> <br /> <br />go as high as $1.500 per acre for flood irrigated Platte Valley farmland. <br /> <br />The Platte Valley of Northeastern Colorado is known allover the country <br /> <br />as one of the finest farm areas in the whole Uni ted States. and here the <br /> <br />Bureau and the Lower South Platte Conservancy District want to inundate <br /> <br />17,000 acres of prime irrigated land and displace 95 active farm families. <br /> <br />('\ <br /> <br />-, <br />-:> <br />