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Show 142 of capital required to bring a ranch into bearing, or lacking capital, tha immense amount of time and labor necessary. One man and team can scarcely handle property more than 40 acres of lard. Desert lands, aa a rule, lack hunraa and it i3 not unusual that the first crop falls:;? to pay for the planting. To insure sue o oa a a prospective rancher should lave sufficient capital to get his land in shape, and to meet his reuuiramenta, which are pratty sure to be heavy, for at loa3t two years. If capital ia lacking to achieve success, he must have soma aean3 of surviving the first faw yaars. On r-, th« Uintah Proj act, sane of the lessees aanaged to' survive the critical period by working on tha Government oarals;. othars worked for their mors prosperous nei^nbors, but ovary day sprat array from the ranch postponed their own aioceas by that much. That many were abaent from their ranch aa on other woik in 1917 is testified tc by the Pederal ?;ater Commias loner, lir. B. 3. Borgquist, who ma ho 3 the following otateTtent in hi3 report for that year: 7_s.. a" result of thiamethod of distribution from tha rivers, tha water-t'r.- ara tJrsa selves made no pretmae whatever at keeping water out of roads or from floodin g ovar sagebrush and down swalls, whera it waa doing no one any good and oftentimes doing a great deal 1 49 |