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<br />_.- . .... "'~.n~..~ ,,~,,"'_;'.~~b.",~.. :,','.., ~~,-> .....,"-"Ji<<..~";,~-...?-. <br /> <br />I!': <br />C') <br />C': <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />P} <br /> <br />Taxes <br /> <br />Tax levies in 1938 amounted to 40.3 mills on the Colorado <br /> <br />area and 25.8 mills on the New Mexico land. The levy has been <br /> <br />increasing slowly from year to year in Colorado but remaining <br /> <br />approximately constant in NeW Mexico. <br /> <br />The number of tax delinquencies in the last few years has <br /> <br />not been large. <br /> <br />Year <br /> <br />Division <br /> <br />Colorado <br /> <br />New Mexi co <br />". <br /> <br />1937 <br />1936 <br />1935 <br />1934 <br /> <br />20 <br />12 <br />32 <br />19 <br /> <br />17 <br />26 <br />26 <br />38 <br /> <br />, -'. <br /> <br />During the severe drought years, however, delinquencies were <br /> <br />qui te heavy and many farms were sold for taxes. In the past two <br /> <br />years many farmers have paid up back taxes and regained posses- <br /> <br />sion of farms lost by tax sales. <br /> <br />Relief <br /> <br />Financial conditions on the project have been bad for a <br /> <br />number of years, In the Colorado Division it is estimated that <br /> <br />at one time over 70 per cent of the people were receiving relief <br /> <br />of same sert. In the New Mexico Division the relief load is <br /> <br />estimated to have reached a peak of 50 per cent of the population. <br /> <br />24 <br />