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<br />a <br />OJ <br />ao <br />+-- <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />In the above summary items 1 to II, inclusive, were pre- <br />pared by representatives of the City of Trinidad and Las <br />Animas County from questionnaires which were submitted to <br />property owners. Item 12 was prepared from information <br />gathered from railroad and utilities, covering, in general, <br />flood losses sustained in the last 50 years. The values for <br />early years were adjusted to present values. Item 3 of the <br />table is .obviously in error so far as the amount is concerned. <br /> <br />From knowledge of the area and in view of details of the report <br />of the Corps of EngL~eers, it does not seem possible that 851 <br />acres lying in the flood plain would be damaged by $100.00 per <br />acre every year. Item 3 was therefore omitted from the total <br />but there was added to the total $3,000 to account for crop <br />losses, this estimate being based on the Corps of Engineers <br />es timate adj us ted to pres en t values. Item No.4, "Crop Los s <br />Due to Lack of Water," would not be chargeable to flood damage <br />but would be a loss that would be alleviated by the irrigation <br />features of the project. The reported amount of the loss is <br /> <br />much too high as indicated by the foregoing detailed discussion <br /> <br /> <br />of irrigation benefits. It should be borne in mind that there <br /> <br /> <br />is a direct relation between the amount that local interests <br /> <br />would be expected to pay toward the irrigation features of the <br /> <br /> <br />project and the gross loss claimed due to lack of water. <br /> <br /> <br />The percentage the local interests can afford to pay of <br /> <br />the increased gross crop production usually varies between 5 <br /> <br />and 10 per cent. If the increase in gross crop production <br /> <br /> <br />brought about by the project were the amount stated in Item 4, <br /> <br />(2 ) <br />