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<br />by investigators of the Farm Security Administration. Families lack for <br /> <br />the bare neoessities of life and do not in fact have suffioient food to <br /> <br />maintain health. Sanitary faoilities are poor and the area is isolated <br /> <br />from medical service. There is a high infant death rate; children suffer <br /> <br />from malnutrition. There is no form of entertainment. Very few of them <br /> <br />have automobiles of any description and no radios or telephones. <br /> <br />A little w~s north of the proposed projeot area within the boundaries <br /> <br />of the San Juan National Forest 25 farm families are living on inadequate <br /> <br />units under much the same oonditions and from about the same oauses as <br /> <br />pertain to the families just desoribed in Arohuleta Oounty. The lamd re- <br /> <br />sources of these families permit only of dry farming on very small areas <br /> <br />and National forest range facilities do not allow their grazing mOre than <br /> <br />a few animal units for each family. It is reported that the resettlement <br /> <br />of these families,into some other area, would enable the Forest Service <br />to acquire and close up their inadequate units, thereby making possible <br /> <br />readjustments essential to the best use of the, forest resouroes; and that <br />,with them to, supplement <br />their present small gralling rights could then be transferred'{.o the feed. <br /> <br />bases that would be available to them in a better location on irrigated <br /> <br />land. <br /> <br />In the La Plata River Irrigation District, which is south and west of <br /> <br />Durango, the Farm Seourity Administration is carrying on surveys and. <br /> <br />investigations looking to irrigation development and readjustment, resettle- <br /> <br />ment and rehabilitation of farm families in the area. This work is under <br /> <br />w~ for that basin and from the report that has been completed it appears <br /> <br /> <br />that some 20 farm families; that would be eligible and suitable for re- <br /> <br />settlement end rehabilitation on irrigated land and who are now living, <br /> <br />usually as tenants, on small inadequate units in that area; could. well be <br />