I wish to present and file these data with your committee. Senator OVERTON. It is not necessary for that to be published, is it? Senator MILLIKIN. Is that essential to the exposition of your case, to put it in the record?

Mr. SVENDBY. What we have had so far▬▬

Senator OVERTON. It is detailed data in respect to what?

Mr. SVENDBY. In respect to the amount of crop obtained from the irrigated portion of the State.

Senator OVERTON. Of South Dakota?

Mr. SVENDBY. Yes, that which we have that is now irrigated. Senator OVERTON. All right. It may be admitted to the record. (The data are as follows:)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

Crop yield report-7-316 (May 1926)

WATER USER OR PROJECT: BELLE FOURCHE PROJECT. YEAR OF 1936

Crop yield report-7-316 (May 1936)—Continued

WATER USER OR PROJECT: BELLE FOURCHE PROJECT. YEAR OF 1936-Continued

1 For remaining grain crops. See note 1, Form 7–332.

List 2 most important other seed crops, like sugar beets, beans, peas, etc. Use Item 14 for the sum total

of all remaining seed crops.

See note 3, Form 7-332.

4 See note 4, Form 7-332.

List 2 most important other forage duplicate crops, like beet tops, bean straw, etc. Use item 23 for sum total of remaining other forage crop.

6 List 2 most important pastures, like ladino, tame, and alfalfa. Use item 30 for sum total of remaining pastures.

7 List 2 most important truck crops, like lettuce, tomatoes, or cabbage. Use item 4200 sum total of other remaining truck crops.

Includes all other nuts.

Item 59 for the major crop. Items 60, 61, total of all other miscellaneous.

Item numbers correspond to those on Form 7–332.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CROP YIELD REPORT

1. The crop yield report shall be included in the annual operation and maintenance report, and an advance copy shall be sent to the Commissioner as soon after its compilation as possible.

2. For sake of uniformity, the unit of yield shall be the ton for forage crops and sugar beets, the bushel for grains and vegetables when practical, and the pound for fruits.

3. The value per units of yield shall be the local market price of the crops. 4. Pastures shall be included under areas irrigated for crop purposes, and the value thereof per acre shall be considered to be the same as that of an acre of hay land on the same class of land.

5. Duplicated areas resulting from growing grass and grain on the same land, from raising crops in bearing orchards, and from other similar methods of cropping shall be carefully ascertained and deducted.

6. In reporting areas irrigated for other purposes, there shall be included: Nonbearing orchards, fall-seeded grass fields, fields irrigated for the purpose of cultivation only, class 5 lands irrigated (while lands in suspended status may produce crops, such cropping is in the nature of an experiment to determine whether such lands should be in pay class or excluded from the project), lands without a water right irrigated by pumping from project canals, and lands withheld from production under soil conservation or any other governmental arrangement. Such amount received from Government and the returns from class 5 lands under value.

7. There shall be deducted from areas irrigated for other purposes, areas of crops raised in nonbearing orchards and other similar areas.

8. Owing to the general nature of the information given in this report, the use of decimals shall be reduced to the lowest practicable minimum consistent with reasonable accuracy.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

Crop yield report 7-316 (Nov., 1924)

WATER USER OR PROJECT: BELLE FOURCHE. YEAR OF 1934

Sugar beets, initial payment $4.25; bonus 1933 crop 97 cents; total, $5.22.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CROP YIELD REPORT

1. The crop yield report shall be included in the annual operation and maintenance report, and an advance copy shall be sent to the Commissioner as soon after its compilation as possible.

2. All crops shall be listed separately in the report in alphabetical order. 3. For sake of uniformity, the unit of yield shall the ton for forage crops and sugar beets, the bushel for grains and other vegetables, and the pound for fruits. 4. The values per units of yield shall be the local market price of the crops. 5. Pastures shall be included under areas irrigated for crop purposes, and the value thereof per acre shall be considered to be the same as that of an acre of hay land on the same farm.

6. Duplicated areas resulting from growing grass and grain on the same land, from raising crops in bearing orchards, and from other similar methods of cropping shall be carefully ascertained and deducted.

7. In reporting areas irrigated for other purposes than cropping there shall be included nonbearing orchards, fall-seeded grass fields, and fields irrigated for the purpose of cultivation only.

8. There shall be deducted from areas irrigated for other than cropping purposes, areas of crops raised in nonbearing orchards and other similar areas. 9. Owing to the general nature of the information given in this report, the use of decimals shall be reduced to the lowest practicable minimum consistent with reasonable accuracy.

10. When the spaces on one sheet are not sufficient to list all of the different kinds of crops raised on the project, an additional sheet should be used and the totals and areas entered on the last sheet.

Mr. SVENDBY. On Thursday, June 1, 1944, our South Dakota Reclamation Association held a meeting at Huron, to which were invited State officials, businessmen, and farmers, for the purpose of discussing the present flood control and Bureau of Reclamation programs for the development of the Missouri River. Nearly 200 of the leaders of the State, representing over 30 of the interested cities, were in attendance. During this meeting, a resolution was adopted, requesting as follows:

Whereas there appears to be a controversy as to the merits of different plans proposed for the development of the Missouri River Basin, we hereby respectfully request that the Congress of the United States, which gives directives to all divisions of Government, including the War Department and the Bureau of Reclamation, before taking action on any plan, direct that the War Department and the Bureau of Reclamation and other interested agencies, get together and develop a unified integrated plan, assuring optimum use of the river and its waters for all of its multiple purposes.

This is the thought and gist of the meeting as formerly stated: That Congress make no decision as to which program to adopt, but rather, to integrate and correlate the two programs, so that they may work together for the best good and the greatest consumptive use of the waters of the great Missouri Basin.

This follows the policy as presented to the Missouri River States Committee hearing at Pierre by myself July 21, 1943, at which time. we stated that the water should be used, first, for the irrigation of land wherever it can be feasibly and economically used; second, that hydroelectric power should be developed wherever it is economically feasible; third, that consideration should be given to the construction of dams on all the tributaries of the Missouri River when the over-all plan is drawn for harnessing and controlling that river; fourth, that the water flowing through the pen stocks in developing the power for industry be ample for the transportation of such goods as can be economically and feasibly hauled on the Missouri River. In this connection, it is our thought that the Fort Peck Dam in Montana might be utilized for irrigation, power, and flood control, in developing the multiple-purpose idea and yet provide the water needed to maintain navigation in the lower regions of the Missouri River.

Further, we stated that we believe that waters from the Missouri River Basin can be diverted to the head of a tributary of the Missouri River Basin, as in the case of the James River. This association recommends such stream diversion as would adequately serve the James River Valley, and, if found feasible, the development of control dams for the purpose of irrigating portions of that valley.

Also, we stated that the South Dakota Reclamation Association is opposed to the type of legislation that would create a Missouri River Valley Commission.