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<br />furnish supplomental water far about 2,500 acres of presently irrigated <br />land. A party of five men started work on field surveys in May 1948. <br /> <br />One meeting was held by landowners to discuss problems of the <br />unit and memoranda were written summarizing previous data obtained on <br />the settleI:lent and development problems. Total costs were ~23,238. <br /> <br />\-' <br /> <br />SOUTH BENCH UNIT (11) <br /> <br />Program $7.000: An engineering report on thi~ unit was submitted <br />to the district office for review. Total costs were $7,000. <br /> <br />TETON SLOPE UNIT (28) <br /> <br />frogram $9.500: With the exception of a few reconnaissance trips <br />over this area no work was done on this unit during the year. Charges <br />of $7,759 made against the unit are for a proportionate share of pay- <br />ments on an aerial photography contract which had been let the previ- <br />ous year. <br /> <br />THREE FORKS UNIT (12) <br /> <br />Program $180.000: The Three Forks Unit comprises a system of <br />canals diverting vater from the Madison River below Hebgen Dam and <br />~ervicing parts of the Gallatin, Jefferson, and Missouri River Valleys <br />surrounding the Town of Three Forks. It is a development designed to <br />follow and be made possible by the construction of Canyon Ferry Dam. <br />It will furnish new water for some 200,000 acres of land and a supple- <br />mental supply for about 170,000 acres of presently irrigated land. No <br />field work was done by Government forces on the unit until February <br />1948 when a party was sent into the field to initiate topographic and <br />-canal surveys for a small portion of the area in the Crow Creek Basin. <br />Some 700. acres. of this area had been s~_veyed at the close of the year. <br /> <br />For the purpose of obtaining basic engineering information for -. <br />the entire project, a contract was awarded on December 20, 1946 to <br />the Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc., to make finished topographic maps <br />on a scale of 2,000 feet to the inch for practically all of the <br />watershed of the Missouri River Basin above Canyon Ferry Reservoir. <br />The total contract was in the amount of $432,4~0 and work has been in <br />progress all during fiscal year 1948. Payments to the contractor for <br />this work are included in the charges against the allotments of the <br />following investigations: Jefferson River, South Bench and Three Forks. <br />On V~y 31, 1948, a total of $156,326 had been paid to the contractor <br />and other amounts due are included in the expenditure figures given <br />for the above units. Costs for Three Forks Unit were $179,999. <br /> <br />.... <br /> <br />60 <br />