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Show 62 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER K. K. Henness, Arizona county agricultural agent: 23 "The total farmland (in Pinal County, Arizona) is ap- proximately 250,000 acres . . .In my judgment, our county at the present is producing less than one-half of what it could produce were sufficient supplemental water available to firm the present supply." "The development of irrigation has been costly," said George W. Barr, an agricultural economist from the University of Arizona.24 "At times it has appeared that the expenditures were unnecessarily large and that private and public money was being wasted, but now that the system has been developed neither the state nor the nation would want to do without the irrigation or the population or the business economy which this irri- gation development supports. The net result had been the development of the Forty-eighth State ... a state which has contributed much to the entire nation by extending the climatic range of the country, by pro- viding an area for wholesale relaxation, recreation, and physical recuperation for many Americans . . ." Senator McFarland added some color to the dry nature of his presentation by calling two distinguished Arizona Indians, George Truman Jones 25 and Alfred Jackson.26 They recounted eloquently the history of their people and expressed their appreciation for the chance to cooperate in developing their homeland. Switching tactics again, McFarland announced that he had several prepared statements for the record, and they were admitted. L. G. Galland of the Phoenix National Farm Loan Association said in his: 27 "I am sure you will be interested to know that our short-term credit association has made 7,400 loans for a total of over $33,000,000." |