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<br />. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />13,000-Acre Development <br /> <br />While there are sooe 13,000 acres of irrigated and <br /> <br />arable land that Day easily be irrigated frGITl ti!<mcos River, includ- <br /> <br /> <br />ing that nlready irribated, the water supply studies indicate that <br /> <br /> <br />such an are~ cannot practicably be provided with ~n ~dequate .supply <br /> <br /> <br />of welter unless the requirer:tent for irrigf\tion is r;nterig.lly less <br /> <br />than anticip8ted. <br /> <br />Repaynent of Project Cost <br />The averf\ge annual cost of ~3.65 per acre for "he 7,000- <br /> <br />acre development with either rGservoir Qnd for the 10,000-3cre <br /> <br />development with Jackson Gulch reserv0ir, is fully equal to the <br /> <br />highest charges on Recl<lD:ction Bureeu proj'Jcts of similar produc- <br /> <br />tivity. The shortages rvITaining in 1931 and 1934, which arc heavy <br />except for the 7,000-acre development with Jackson Gulch reservoir, <br /> <br />eTe mOre severe than is COrIrlon cn present projects of the Bureau <br /> <br />of Reclamntion. Such heuvy shortages ~ill ~~terif\lly iopair repay- <br /> <br />ment ability in those yenrs and possiblY for a year or two there- <br /> <br />after. As such years COne only r"rely wi th no other cOl'lp'lrable <br /> <br />years in the past thirty, they should not be token too serioUSly. <br /> <br />The Town of Nlf\ncos will benefit gref\tly from such an <br /> <br />improveDent in v8ter supply as well GS other interests in the <br /> <br />valley besides the irrigf\tors and all should ~f\rticipate in repay- <br /> <br />ment of the project cost. The 1937 Color3do Conservancy District <br /> <br />G <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~n.,e..,,~ <br />