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. . Project Lands The Texline and Colduater Creek areas lie ~Iithin the Ian'" purchase area of the old L~ld Utilization PrograM. Soil conditions differ between the t1lree centers of development. In their original condition the soils of the three areas llere as follows: The Colduater Creek area consists of a narrow band - three-fourths to one and one-half miles ~ride - of sandy loams and clay loams lying just north of Cold~1ater Creel~. 1'hese soils are interspersed with an occasional area of deep sands. Also, they are bordered on the north and south by ar8as of deep sands extremely susceptible to wind erosion. A high proportion of the Coldwater Creel~ area including the deep sands were in cultivation at one time. The uhole of the area was severely damaged by wind eroni.on during the drought of the mid-thirties. A large part of the smooth-lyinV, fine sandy 10am5 and clay loams, where irrigation is nou practiced, uas eroded into the lower subsoils. Consequently, there is little if any of the Coldwater Creek area that can now qualify as Class I land for irrigation. The Texline area lies uithin a large depression heginning about 7 miles east of the t~Tll of Texline. It is GurroUnded by areas of soils unsuited for irrigation. The Texline area is more cut-up by areas of sand, caliche, drain- age ways, and .broken topography than the Coldwater Creek area. The Tey.1ine area has a considerable area of soils similar to those of the Cold~rater Creek area. In addition, it has tuo soil types not fOUlld in the Coldwater Creek area. One of these is a bluish-gray saline, fine sandy loam that occupies the areas where the water table comes uithin 5 to 10 feet of the surface. The other is a smooth, deep, permeable fine sandy loam uell suited for irrigation that occupies some 2,000 to 2,500 acres 0; the area. A ver}' high proportion of this latter soil type is being irrigated at present, The damaging effects of wind erosion are as prevalent, if not more so, in this area than in the Cold~lRter Creek area, The fine sandy soile, ~lthough they have received some liLnd-blown depositions from adjacent areas, have not been materially affected by erosion. They are Class I soils in every respect. Very little if any of the other soil types of the Texline area can qualify as Class I lands for irrigation, The soils of the North Sedan Road area are deep sandy loams with a gently undulating topography. These soils were also in cultivation during the "Dust Bowl" days; consequently, they nO~T have a considerable amount of micro-relief as a result of soil blo~rine. Moreover, this is a situation that must be coped with each spring. Drifting sand fills irrigation ditches and disturbs the land surface once it has been smoothed for irriga- tion, 24