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ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 2 TO 30 INCHES • ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 30 TO 110 INCHES

U. S. Weather Bureau

DEDICATED TO THE TASK OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE WATER FOR A PIIOFITABLE AND DIVERSIP1ED AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN AMERICA-THE CREATION OF NEW HOMES-THE STABILIZATION OF DROUGHT AREAS. THIS WILL MAKE AMERICA STRONGI 1119 NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING. WASHINGTON. D. C. Janua ry 17,

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MORE BUDGET FIGURES FOR FISCAL YEAR ElIDING JUNE 30, 1943

We herewith submit some more recommendations to Congress as taken from the budget of the United States government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943 which President Roosevelt sent to Congress last week.

They include items recommended for (a) Indian Irrigation, (b) Case-Wheeler water conservation and utilization projects, (c) Operation and Maintenance" budget

for Bureau of Reclamation projects, and (d) other items in which many western people are interested.

BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR IIIDIAN IRRIGATION SYS TEM FOR 1943 AS COMPARED \.f.[ TH

APPROPRIATIONS FOR LAST YEAR

State Arizona Ariz.-New Mex. California Project Colorado River Navajo Salt River Mission Sacramento Appropriated 191+2 $ 560,000 225,000 40,000 8,000 26,700 Owens Valley (Carson Agency

Nevada) 10,000 15,000 Colorado Idaho Montana Nevada New "Mexico Oregon Washington H;)Toming Iii 8 ce lla...Tle 0 us Southern Ute Fort Hall Crow Blackfeet Flathead Fort Belknap Fort Peck Carson Western Shoshone Walker River Pyramid Lake Pueblo WarTIl. Springs Wapato Hind River Garden 'Practs

Surveys and Investigations

and AdJnin istra ti ve Expens e

45,000 250,000 25,000 17,000 25,000 5,000 125,000 60,000 5,000 210,000 40,000 45,000 135,000 Estimates for 1943 50,000 85,000 15,000 5,000 15,000 5,000 10,000 10,000 25,000 10,000 6,250 10,000 25,000 5,000 3~000 17 , 000 15,000 50,000 147,750 TOTALS $1,907,950 ~ 509,000 OFFICERS O. S. WARDEN. PRESIDENT

ORA BUNDY. FIRST VICE·PRESIDENT

ROBERT W. SAWYER. SECOND VICE·PRESIDENT

J. A. FORD. TREASURER F. O. HAGlE. SECRETARY·MANAGER

HUGO B. FARMER. YUMA. ARIZONA J. R. FAUVER. EXETER. CALIFORNIA CLIFFORD H. STONE. DENVER. COLORADO N. V. SHARP. FILER. IDAHO

E. PORTER AHRENS. SCANDIA. KANSAS O. S. WARDEN. GREAT FALLS. MONTANA

DIRECTORS

H. D. STRUNK. MC COOK. NEBRASKA A. M. SMITH. CARSON CITY. NEVADA E. W. BOWEN. TUCUMCARI. NEW MEXICO HARRY E. POLK. WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA FRANK RAAB. OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA

ROBERT W. SAWYER. BEND. OREGON W. D. BUCHHOLZ. NEWELL. SOUTH DAKOTA R. E. BASKIN. SEYMOUR. TEXAS ORA BUNDY. OGDEN. UTAH J. A. FORD. SPOKANE. WASHINGTON

Bulletin No. 3 - 2 January 17, 1942

BUDGET ESTItIATES FOR-HATER CONSERVATION AND UTILI~liTION (CASE-WHEEIER) PROJECTS FOR 1943 AS COMPARED HITH 194.2 AND ACTUAL EXPENDITURES FOR 1941

Estimate Estimate Actual 'Expenditure

State Project , for F.Y.1943 for F. Y,.1942 forF. Y. 1941

Colorado Mancos $ 274,813 $ 213,500 $ 113,687

Idaho l'1ann Creek 215,000 215,000

So. Dakota Angostura 138,274 100 ,000 1'1,726

Rapid Valley 291,000 253,073 105,562

utah Newton 16,250 58,522 138,628

Montana Buffalo Rapids #1 84,000 109,380 137,380

Buffalo Rapids

_#f2

200,528 175,461 261,871

Nebraska Mirage Flats 267,060 230,000 482,555

North Dakota. Buford-Trenton _93,563 109 ,336 187,7l.J.+

Wyoming Eden 699,042 387,158 113,800

Surveys and Investigations 220,0()0 181,891 108,208

Administrative Expense g6,000 26,000 7,500

TOTALS $ 2,525,530 ~ 2,059,321 ~ 1,668,661

We are informed that when the ~5,OOO,000 was appropriated last year for Case-Wheeler projects, the Bureau of Reclamation set up ~2,059,321 to carry construction through the fiscal year 1942 (endinE June 36, 1942) on these particular projects, and at the same time set up ~2,525,530 of the fund to carry the work through the fiscal year 1943.

It now appears that 'during the past summer the President impounded the

~2J525,530 which was set up for the fiscal year 1943, but we are given to under-stand that unless impounded again, this will revert to its original purpose on June 30, 1942 and will be available to carry all these Case-Wheeler projects through the fiscal year 1943. Of course, the whole Case-Wheeler program depends to such an extent on WPA labor and CCC camps to subsidize the above funds which are reimbursable, that one can not 'predict at this time as to how much of the above program can move forward. Each project must sit on its own bottom.

OTHER 1943 BUDGET FIGURES OF GENERAL IHTEREST TO THE WEST WITH COMPARISONS WITH WHAT WAS ACTUALLY-APPROPRIATED FOR THE PRESEN~ 1942 FISCAL YEAR

Service or Project

Development of WRter Facilities Conservation and Use of Agricultural

Lane Resources Soil Conservation Service Office of Experiment Stations Extension Service

Forest Service

Forest Roads and Trails Forest Fire Cooperation Irrigation Agriculture Sugar Plant Investigation Forage crops and Diseuses

Actually Appropriated for F. Y. 1942 Department of Agriculture $ 500,000 499,388,671 25,602,109 7 , 173 ,627 14,956,843 20,025,830 9,990,165 2,425,000 141,200 368,970 306,130 Estimated for F. Y. 1943 $ 202,585 450,000,000 22,507,204 6,718,997 14,601.145 17,300,565 6,500,000 2,500,000 142,220 333,950 294,500

-Bulletin No. 3 - 3

Service or Project

TVA

Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries

Flood Control, Sacranento Power Plant at Bonneville Total, Flood Control

Bonneville Power Administration

Actually Appropriated for

F. Y. 1942 Tennessee Valley Authority

$ 166,800,000 Army Engineers $ 22,000,000 98,325 7,170,000 98,780,000

Department of the Interior $ 52,858,500 January 17" 194.2 EstiJmted for F. Y.

'

1943'

$ 136,800,000 ' $ 30,000,'000 1,000,000 4,166,000 93,685,000 $ 22,750,000 BUREAU OF RECLAMATION ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIOnS FOR OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

BUDGET ALLOHANCES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1943

Project and State

Salaries and expenses, D. C. Yuma project, Arizona-California Colorado-Big Thompson, Colorado Pine River project, Colorado Boise project, Idaho

Minidoka project, Idaho

o & M reserved works

o

& M Power system

Betterments, South Side Div. Buffalo Rapids project I t10ntana

Direct Appropriation

$

139,000 66,250 5,000 101,000 14,000 25,000 North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming

o

& 11 Power system

Payment to Northport Irrigation District Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas 30,000

Owyhee project~ Oregon 175,000

Klamath project~ Oregon~Ca1ifornia 113,000 Yakima project, Washington 248,000 Kendrick project, Wyoming

Riverton project, l-lyoming Shoshone project,. Wyoming Secondary invest·iga tions

56,000 15,000 25,000 Operation and maintenance admi~istration 54,400

Total from Recla~Ation Fund General Fund Appropriations

Colorado River Front Work and Levee System

Colorado River Development Fund Protection of Project Works Total from General Fund TOTAL $1,066,650 50,000 200,000 400,000 $ 650,0.00

$

1,716,650. Revenues $ 25,000 100,000 86,400 100,000 100,000 6,000 50,000 Remarks Lea.se revenues 25,000 .available for 100.,000 tnak ing refund s

45,000 50,000

Plus unexpended balance from 1942

5,000 For personal ser-vices, D.C.

Bulletin No.

3 -

4

January

17. 1942

FARMERS EVERYWHERE NOW URGED TO GET ALL'lEEIR I1ACHIljERY REPAIRS ORDERED AT ONCE

Now, while the auto industry is getting ready to sta.rt converting plants to '

war industry purposes, steel is available for farm machinery ,repairs, but it

probably will not be available in three months from now. Therefore, farmers are

urged to check everything that needs repairs or may need repairS in the next

twelve months and get it done, or put the order in nowl Don't p;et caught short.

NEW

1942

SUGAR QUOTAS ANNOUNCED BY DEPARTI1ENT OF AGRICULTURE

We reprint the following press release of the Department of Agriculture on

December

31, 1941:

"The Department of Agriculture announced today that

6,666,890

short

tons, raw value, will be needed from the various sugar-producing areas

supplyinG the cant inental U. S. in

1942

in order to meet the normal sugar

requirements of consumers. However, since certain of the areas may be

unable in

1942

to deliver the quantity of sugar ordinarily furnished by

them, it is necessary to establish initial quotas totaling

8,032,074

tons,

in order to JIl.ake it possible to secure the required sugar from the other

areas. The Sugar Act of

1937

l·equires the Secretary to establish quotas

in December for the following calendar year and authorizes him to revise

such quotas whenever necessar y.

"The initial

1942

quotas for the various areas with the

1941

compara- .

ti ve ini tial quotas are as follows':

Areas Continental Beet Ma inland Cane Hawaii Puerto Rico Virgin Is lands

Commonwealth of the Phillippines

Cuba

Foreign countries other thnn Cuba

1942

Quotas ( short tons

1,,862,811

504,995

1,127 ,420

959,088

10,716

1,237,764

2,297,533

31,747

8,032,074

1941

Quotas raw va.lue)

1,549,898

420,167

938,037

797,982

8,916

1,006,931

1,869,060

25,826

6,616,817

nIt is not anticipated at present that the Philippines will fill much,

if any, of their

1942

quota, nor that Hawaii will meet its entire quota.

Therefore, ~~y part of the required

6,666,890

tons which those areas are

unable to supply will have to be made up by sugar from other areas having

sugar sup?lies in excess of their quotas. Officials pointed out, however, that the Western Homisphere may be called upon to furnish the Allies with

somewhat larger supplies of sugar in

1942

than in prior years.

"On the basis of the recent sugar conservation order issued by the

Office of Production I1anagement,

1942

sugar dis tri but ion wi thin this

country will be limited to about

6,891,000

tons (the amount distributed

in

1940)

plus the supplies needed by the armed services of this country.

The difference between this ~~ount and the

6,666,890

tons could be made

Bulletin No.3 - 5 January 17, 1942

"It is estimated that sugar distribution in 191+1 will total about 7,900,000 tons and that about half of the 1,000,000-ton increase over 1940 represents increased stocks held by wholesalers and retailers, and industrial, commercial and household users of sugar. n

Our cormnent on the above matter is that sugar beet farmers everywhere in the West should grow all the sugar beets that they can get the processors to agree to take. There is a sugar shortage - it will get worse. The British are now ration-ed down to 1/2 pound per person per week. That's one-fourth our per capita'

consumption of over 100 pounds per person annually. Those who increase their production during this emergency will surely lay some claim to the right to con-tinue production when the emergency is over. Let's grow a.ll the sugar beets we can on irrigated and other western lands during the next two or three or four war years.

From the January issue of the RECLAMATION ERA we quote the following: 'tIn progress this winter are

135

reclamation investigations of potential irrigation and power projects in seventeen western states, with 680 engineers and other Bureau employees assigned to this pha.se of reclamation work of building the West."

Respectfully submitted,