Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 130 Regional director's report of February 1951 on Central Utah Project, Utah : a supplement to The Colorado River Storage Project Report, page 130 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Region 4 |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-13 |
| Format | 130 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; CHAPTER CCHAPTER VII I 1 agriculture ga g1 1 I 1 GU LTJ R E and homes in the uinta basin new lands are generally interspersed in farm units among amona irrigated lands which would receive supplemental water A development period of about 5 years would be required for additional ditching leveling and fencing and for the establishment of farm herds on lands receiving supplemental water or on small tracts of new land adjoining presently irrigated areas A 10 year development period would be required for the larger tracts of new land along the duchesne river rivero REPAYMENT ABILITY methods of analysis A study was made of the repayment ability of the farms which would receive water under the initial phase data were obtained from economic surveys made in representative areas throughout the project area from reports published by various state and federal agencies and from county agents and farmers familiar with the area payment capacity for lands under the initial phase was determined by the farm budget method results from this method were checked against the findings of a second study utilizing the income to land method farm budget method in the farm budget method payment capacity was estimated through the development and analysis of farm budgets representative of the various types of farms in the area under study budgets were prepared for farms under both with and without project conditions showing in detail anticipated income and expenditures for a year of operation from these budgets the capacity of the farms to amortize project construction st costs was determined all budgets were based on prices for the 1939194 19391944 1939 1944 period income to land method in the income to land method the provisions of farm lease agree ments commonly used in the area were taken as a basis for the division of income and expenses the payment capacity was determined as the difference between expenses chargeable to land and the gross income to land 130 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/8959 |
