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<br />o the Dht~lct. anet United St.atea for works wbiCi!b vere ddcSed befo~e <br />C:) <br />t-" the project: w.s tully cClllplete4. <br /> <br />CO <br />Q1 Dlae to .1ecrt:.ric power featur.. and country.....ide in- <br /> <br />ereaeed oonetruct:ion coat. arising atter the original ..timate <br /> <br />of 1935, the wbol. projec:1:: cost wa. one hundred sixty million <br /> <br />dollen. 'the n1atdot. by the _tracts. did ~ get: the elee.- <br /> <br />tric~l power plants or revenu.s. Tho powe~ companies saw to it <br /> <br />that, in the "Wat.er Conaervancy Act". the qenerat10n of electric <br /> <br />enerqy was excepted from the District's powera. That electrical <br /> <br />energy wa. reeenood to t.he Unit.ed Statea. Tho lallil\9 water <br /> <br />9'oe8 throl1qh turbines of . ix,' hydro-electric plants. It will <br /> <br />assure recoupment of the government.'s construction coata within <br /> <br />tbe forty yeara, when added to the District'. general taxes <br /> <br />and apecial (allotment) ........nt,8 over that period. <br /> <br />Water allotments dee.rve exPOsition. <br /> <br />They are of three claue., towit:1 "Db, those to citie01 <br /> <br />"e", t.hoae to i:n:iljJathn district. and "1.)", those to individual <br /> <br />lands. Th.y are attaehed t.o the particular municipalitYi'irri- <br /> <br />gation district or specifio lands ~o which ~he a11otmen~ con- <br /> <br />tr4ct makes them appurtenant. <br /> <br />The -9- and .C" allotments are QOn~racted ~o be paid <br /> <br />for by annual leviee made by the allottee or irrigation dis- <br /> <br />trict its.lf by aseessments olthe lands within it. US" allot- <br /> <br />lIlGInts are contracted to be paid for by annWll general tax levy <br /> <br />-7- <br />