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<br />nD~31J6 <br /> <br />- 9 - <br /> <br />pating projects, the Jex Report was quite adequate. He continued that any fur- <br />ther surveys, before it was decided which projects would be built, was a waste <br />of valuable engineering talent and taxpayers' money. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The land proposed to be irrigated by the Jex aeport is suitable for <br />irrigation. ,.e ootained land classification studies on every participating <br />project in the Gun~ison Basin proposed by the Jex Report, and some land classi- <br />fication studies on other participating projects for comparison. The lands <br />proposed to be irrigated by the Jex hepart are of like quality to lands pre~ <br />sently irrigated in the Gunnison Basin and in some cases superior. <br /> <br />Irrigated new lands made possible in Gunnison County by ~articipating <br />projects are 39,370 acres; in Delta County, 22,500; in Montrose C~unty, 14,600 <br />acres; in Mesa, 5,570 acres; in Ouray, 10,750; and in Saguache, 6760 acres, <br />with other sIT.all scale development at 5,000 acres. The total is 107,570 acres. <br />Supplemental water will be supplied to 96,360 acres. Colored pi~tures were <br />caken to shovl the lands that can be put under irrigation on the various par- <br />t.icipating projects and to shoVI the lands that need supplemem.al Vlater. These <br />~lides will be shm~ to the committee upon request. <br /> <br />It is generally D3s',med that the Bureau of heclamation will enter into <br />" participating project. 1:: tn a group of peor.le when the benefits. exceed the <br />c'}sts and v:hen the lands ll'iVC a repayment ability. A good share of the projects <br />in the GunnBon Basin are in good shape in this respect, de believe that all <br />the participating proj8cts proi'osed in the Jex neport will be built. The bene- <br />fits to cost ratios have improved. The benefits were figured on price levels <br />during the 1939 to 1944 period. The costs W8re figured on 1949 cons-,.ruction <br />rates. A new formula is now being developed to base the benefits on more re- <br />cent years. <br /> <br />.- <br /> <br />America must have more production. The ~hcat carrJ-over is down; the <br />wheat carry-over in 1952 will be only 32 per cent of our annual re~lirement; <br />the corn carry-over is dovID, tile amount of carry-over for 1952 is 100 million <br />bushels down from 1951. Our total carrJ'-over of corn will only be 20 per cent <br />of the annual reql~ircmem.. Ld-litary kitchens require a supply of eight to <br />nine months; civilia;-l, only seven to nine days, The average American is eat- <br />ing 13 per cent more food than he did in the l'hS to 1939 per"-od. Population <br />has increased 20 million since 1940, or 15 per cent. The Depar-cment of Agri. <br />culture has put out the request for all-out production in 1952. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />In the past 10 years, 3,800,000 acres of new land have c'):ne under culti- <br />vation in Colorado, and agricultural land at this time totals 10,800,000 acres. <br />\lith that sort of expansion, can anyone assume that an additional 107 thousand <br />acres of irrigated land ,Iill not be put into cult! vation? <br /> <br />In our report we have <br />economy of today is huilt. <br />1100 farms in the Gun~ison <br />increase 7 million dollal"S <br /> <br />.,t2,.ted 1".-ith official d8.ta which tells uS how the <br />':::1ere Viill be a total increase of approximately <br />~2sino Farm 8xpenditures in the Gunnison Basin will <br />a year on an annual basis wnen full development of <br />