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<br />e,J <br /> <br />C! <br />- <br />c <br />c. <br /> <br />stations, motels, a cafe, and other service enterprises in the town serve <br />local needs and cater to the tourist trade on the highway although on a <br />much smaller scale than Winslow and Holbrook. Electric power is sup- <br />plied to the area by the Northern Arizona Light and Power Company but <br />rates are fairly high. Telephone service is provided over a party line <br />from Winslow and Western Union Telegraph service is available at <br />Holbrook. The town contains a consolidated elementary and high school, <br />and an L. D. S. Church. The comLlunity has no industry, its economy <br />being primarily agriculturaL There are three dairies in the area, one <br />of which is a farmer cooperative, but they are little more than receiving <br />sta tions, <br /> <br />r <br /> <br />13. The project area is primarily in private ownership. Only 9 <br />percent of the 7,581 acres in the project area is publicly owned land <br />and nearly all of this is state land. The railroad and other corporations <br />own another 25 percent of the area and private individuals own the <br />remaining two-thirds. The general area in which the project is located <br />is range land used principally for grazing beef cattle. Although the <br />range has a low carrying capacity, except at the higher elevations, it <br />constitutes a prominent adjunct to the farm economy and influences <br />the type of crops grown under irrigation. The project area contains <br />only 777 acres of irrigated land of which nearly 100 acres was idle in <br />1947. The remaining 6,804 acres is used for range, the townsite, road <br />and railroad rights of way, or is nonproductive. <br /> <br />14. The Joseph City community, a small irrigated area in the <br />heart of a low-producing range country, has few economic interests <br />aside from farming and grazing. The community does not have a <br />highly prosperous, commercial appearance, but rather its economic <br />life operates at a somewhat languid tempo and has some elements of <br />self-sufficiency. While the prosperity of the community is influenced <br />by general economic conditions in agriculture, its self-sufficing aspects <br />tend to insulate it against the wide fluctuations in prosperity and need <br />associated with a high degree of commercialism. Many of the younger <br />generation have migrated from the area leaving a rather high proportion <br />of elderly inhabitants. The L. D. S. Church life includes most of the <br />social activities of interest to the people, and the Church attends to <br />cases of temporary need. No poverty is in evidence and there appears <br />to be little or no actual privation. Public assistance to the needy is <br />limited to the usual type such as assistance to elderly people, widows <br />and orphans. Even in the depression years of the 1930 I s the relief <br />load was relatively light. <br /> <br />Water Use <br /> <br />15. Water use in the Joseph City area is confined to municipal, <br />domestic and livestock supplies, and irrigation. In Joseph City <br />domestic water of acceptable, although not high, quality is obtained <br />from individual wells some of which tap formations other than the <br />Coconino. Because the town and most of the fields are located above <br />the flood plain and the diversion dams have been constructed to with- <br />stand high flows such as those which washed them out repeatedly for <br />many years, floods of the Little Colorado River do not cause appreci,~ <br />able damage in the project area. <br /> <br />5 <br />