WSP07190

• File Number: 8220.124.A
• Description: Pine River
• State: CO
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 1/1/1942
• Title: Preliminary Investigation Proposed Pine River Irrigation Project: Preliminary Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

one brood sow with one small litter eaoh year, a small team of horses,

50 hens, dUDk~, geese, and turkeys. He exhanges work with his neigh-

bors when he oan.

His cash farm returns are: Wheat $195, AAA contract $40, livestock and
livestock products, mostly lambs and wool $360, or a total farm income
of $595; WPA and some part-time work $100, surplus commodities received
are the equivalent of $50. This totals to an income from all sources of

$745.

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His costs are: Taxes $80, repairs and depreciation $40, feed and seed
$80, threshing and twine $25, operating old au.to $60, farm improvements
$25, miscellaneous crop and livestock expenses $40, fees $5, shearing $10,
grazing permit $12; Total farm operating costs $377.

Family living costs (inoluding surplu.s
!ties)
Total costs to balance income from all

Commod-
souroes $~::

(note low standard)

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The above described dry land farm shows a proportional distribution at

various land and soil classes that is repre$entative of the proposed pro-

Ject area. The dry farm yields are as good as are secured in the looality.

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The following farm plan statement shows what farm inoome can be secured

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on this same land if the best 120 acres of No. 1 and 2 soils is developed

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for irrigation with 2 acre-feet of water available and the balance of the

280 unit u.sed for grazing.

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The Same Fa.rm when Crop Land is Irrigated

Crop Production (laO-acres irrigated): Alfalfa 30 acre 90 tons, oats 19