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<br />00lG38 <br /> <br />Trading and shipping points and transportation facilities are well <br /> <br />distributed throughout the Eastern Slope agricul tural area. A large <br /> <br /> <br />portion of the agricultural production. including livestock and truck <br /> <br />produce, is shipped to outside markets in the Midwest and East. The <br /> <br />E~stern Slope has six main railroads, and good county. State, and <br /> <br />Federal highways. Truck and bus lines provide a network of motor <br /> <br />freight a,nd passenger service. Three airlines connect with all parts <br />_~ ,/., J {(, ./~I ." . , . " <br />of the United States. Western-Slope -pransportation facilitie~,jare <br /> <br />limited. <br /> <br />Economic conditions <br /> <br />Economic conditions on the Eastern Slope reflect the variations <br /> <br />of national proSperity upon which are superimposed the effecte of <br /> <br />fluctuations due to a variable water supply for agricul ture. Al though <br /> <br />the land and the products produced in the Arkansas Valley are above <br /> <br />average, full development of the area has <br /> <br />Uh,,., ';; <br />never materialized because <br />'1 <br /> <br />of its distance from large population centere, the uncertainty of the <br /> <br />~ater supply, the lack of power for industrial growth, and-beeause-of <br /> <br />o..ther-f!l.ctor-o.- <br /> <br />The average per capita assessed valuation was $974 in 1940, and <br /> <br />the aver/i€:e county levy for all purposes was 35.57 mills. Tax co 1- <br /> <br />lections averaged 90 percent for the 1931-19UO period in tne counties <br /> <br />containing large areas of irrigated land but were lower in the dry-land <br /> <br />counties. Local government indebtedness was rel~tively high in 1941 as <br /> <br /> <br />a result of an expanded build1n~ro&ram in the .1920's, the ensuing <br /> <br /> <br />depression, and th~ drought years in the 1930-1940 decade when very <br /> <br />18 <br />