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<br />resettled into the proposed Pine River Project area. <br /> <br />A little w~s north and west of Durango in adjacent Montezuma Oounty, <br /> <br />about 50 miles by highw~ from the proposed Pine River project, new <br /> <br />irrigation development is progressing in the Mancos Basin which is an- <br /> <br />other part of the greater San Juan Basin. The Mancos area is one of <br /> <br />the oldest agricultural settlements in southwestern Oolorado. It 'ie <br /> <br />an old Mormon colony centering at the town of l'iancos. There have devel- <br /> <br />oped in this old community conditions'of overcrowded agricultural <br /> <br />population and inadequate farm units, decreased feed bases, and over- <br /> <br />stocking and depletion of range lands that call for the resettlement <br /> <br />of farmers from it onto other irrigated lands in the region, if sueh <br /> <br />are availalle. The Farm Security Administration is now planninq; for the <br /> <br />readjustment, resettlement and rehabilitation of these farmers. <br /> <br />It is believed that, after providing for farm families now living in <br /> <br />the area of the proposed Pine River Project, there will be sufficient <br /> <br />irrigated farm land with s~pplemental dry lands available for resettle- <br /> <br />ment to about provide for the landless families, that would desire re- <br />settlement into the proposed Pine River project from the four areas just <br />described; southwestern Archuleta Oounty, the San Juan National forest, <br />the La Plata project a.rea.and the Mancos farms area. <br /> <br />r <br /> <br />1.' <br />" <br />?' <br />, <br /> <br />,~ <br />,.; <br /> <br />.~.~ <br /> <br />" ~ <br />p <br /> <br />;~ <br />