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StmSTANTIATING MATERIALS Present DeveJ.opment Status of Scattered Land Tracts in Initial Plan for Pine River Project Extension The plan for the 1951 report on the Pine River project extension, based on surveys made in 1942, would provide irrigation uater for 15,l5O acres of land that were undeveloped in 1942. Of this total acreage 6,420 acres would be served by an elll.argement and extension of the K:l.ng Con- solidated Canal and the remaining 8,730 acres, more l'Iidely dispersed, would be served tbrough minor extensions of numerous existing irrigation systems. Since the project extension ws authorized in 1956, further investigations have shown that extensive developments of the scattered land areas have already taken place. It is the purpose of this section of the report to show the present development status of the 8,730 acres of land mentioned above in support of the conclusion previously expressed that they are not now suitable tor inclusion in the plan for the Pine River project extension. According to the 1951 report eight existing ditches or canals could serve the 8,1'30 acres of new J.and, providad minor enlargements or exten- sions were made.' In the recent surveys it ws found that l' ditches and canaJ.s are actuaJ.ly involved although the additional ditches would serve only minor areas and as a rule would require no elll.argements or extension. From recent aerial photographs and from field inspections it ws determined that by 1957, ',300 acres of the land were being irrigated and an a.dd:LtionaJ. 92(' acres were being prepared for irrigation. Irri- gation of about '98 acres would be 1mpracticable 88' So '.Bureau of Recla- mation project because of the small acreage and because the J.and is so far beyond the end. of the Tholll.PSOn Epperson ditch extension from which it could best be served. Another 266 acres ~~located so far beyond the recently Completed Shroder Extension dit that they could not be irrigated economically. An a.dd:LtionaJ. 61,5 acres in the initial plan l'IilJ. be inundated by the Navajo Reservoir now under construction as a unit of the Colorado River Storage project and 400 acres are used for the J:.a Plata AirfieJ.d. Lands eliminated from the originaJ. project plan for reasons mentioned in the preceding paragraph total 5,900 acres, leaving only 2,83() acres of Y The Shroder-Extension D:l.tch Company, renamed the Pine River- Bayfield Ditch Company, obtained a loan from the Farmers Home Adminis- tration in 1954 to enlarge and extend. its system. Construction was completed in 1956.