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Show 184 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER stances, if you had that occur in a crop in Arizona under this project, would you nevertheless credit that $80,000 to the benefits?" Larson: "Well, gross crop income is a basis of measuring of benefits. . . For example, by producing lettuce, you furnish labor to the fellows planting and harvesting the lettuce. When the lettuce is harvested, it goes to the packing shed and again furnishes labor. This lettuce must be iced, which furnishes labor to men working in an ice plant. Then the lettuce is shipped to the markets. It again furnishes labor to men working on the railroads, and revenues to the railroads." Engle: "The Department of Agriculture says you ought to take the net rather than the gross." 250 Larson: "If you take the net, you might say, from crop production, then you could not stop there because there are other benefits beyond that." Engle: "In other words, we might go down here to Baltimore and have the government set up a shoe fac- tory. You could claim the gross income to the shoe factory was a benefit to the nation." Engle brought out from Larson that in advocating the Central Arizona Project, the Reclamation Bureau ex- pected that Glen Canyon Dam would be built upstream above Bridge Canyon Dam. Engle introduced evidence to show that without this upstream protection the Bridge Canyon Dam reservoir would be filled with silt long before the pay-out period of the project had ended. But the cost of Glen Canyon Dam, which would be $350 to $400 million, had not been included in the cost of the Arizona project.251 Engle next took up the matter of recreational benefits. Larson's report stated that these benefits would amount |