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A Range Resource Development Subcommittee 

 was authorized to be organized. The main core 

 of this committee is to be composed of ranchers. 

 A couple of their purposes will be to increase an 

 awareness of range development potential and 

 the beneficial effects on community and individual 

 incomes, to assist in obtaining and promoting 

 the coordination of activities of private, state 

 and federal organizations in range resource 

 development. 



The Recreation and Tourism subcommittee poss- 

 ibilities were reported. Many opportunities and 

 responsibilities present themselves. Mr. Cooney 

 told of an inventory that is needed of recreational 

 potential, present facilities available, and pro- 

 jected needs. He mentioned that the Stite Fish 

 and Game Department had recently created the 

 Recreation and Lands Division and that he is in 

 charge of this division. 



Mr. Roberts of State Parks pointed out that any 

 of the listed responsibilities of the subcommittee 

 would be a big job. He mentioned the survey 

 currently being made lay the Bureau of Business 

 and Economic Research at Montana State 

 University. 



Mr. Boile pointed out there will be some con- 

 flicts of interests as we move toward more 

 recreational development. However, he said, 

 "Montana is in a fortunate position as many of 

 our resources are uncommitted. " 



Membership for a recreation subcommittee shows 

 that many groups are concerned with recreation. 



An OEDP for Sanders County was reviewed and 

 seemed adequate. A Park County OEPD did not 

 adequately cover agriculture, mining recreation 

 and forestry. 



It was learned that an application for an ARA 

 loan for a Butte Feedyard did not meet USDA 

 approval as not meeting the concepts of the 

 Family Farm. 



The need for some guidelines to be developed to 

 help local groups prepare Overall Economic 

 Development Plans was discussed. A committee 

 composed of Ole Ueland, Sam Chapman, and 

 Ernest Ahrendes were asked to look into the 

 possibilities. 



Husband: "Are you ready yet, 

 -dear?" 



Wife: "I wish you'd stop nag- 

 g-injj me. I told you an hour ago 

 I'd he ready in a few minutes." 



160 ACRE LIMITATION 



Congressman Olson writes that he is arranging 

 a meeting of Assistant Secretary of Interior Holum, 

 the senators, and himself, sometime the middle 

 of June to further discuss Reclamation Law and 

 the 160 acre limitation and its effect on P. L. 566 

 proposed projects in Montana. 



This is being done at the request of the MASWCD 

 Watershed Committee, and the SSCC. Presently 

 all water development above Canyon Ferry in 

 Montana is subject to the Bureau's 160 acre 

 limitation. 



Previous attempts to set aside this limitation have 

 not been successful. 



AGRICULTURE IS A BIG BIG BUSINESS 



Farmers operate the biggest single industry in 

 the Nation. The investment in agriculture was 

 over 200 billion dollars in 1961. That's about 

 three-fourths of the value of current assets for 

 all corportation in the country. It is three -fifths 

 of the market value of all corporation stocks on 

 the New York Stock Exchange. 



FOOD AND THE MARKETING MARGIN 



Farmers sent more than $20 billion worth of 

 food to the domestic market in 1961. By the 

 time we paid for it, it was worh another $20 

 billion — twice again as much. About half of 

 that money was wages for the men and women who 

 process, store, ship, and finally sell our food 

 to us in the store. 



REPORT ON APRIL MEETING OF SSCC 



The State Soil Conservation Committee rnet in 

 Helena April 23. 



A delegation of water users from the Little 

 Blackfoot in Powell County met with the comm- 

 ittee in support of an application for assistance 

 to build a storage reservoir for supplementary 

 water for irrigation. The application was ap- 

 proved for preliminary planning. 



The matter of priorities for Watershed Applica- 

 tions was discussed. The following new pro- 

 cedure was adopted: That instead of holding a 

 priority all the way through that the Committee 

 sets at time of application based largely on a 

 first come, first serve bases, that a priority 

 for a preliminary investigation be given at tiine 

 of application, then when feasibility is determined 

 and after the establishment of a legal sponsoring 

 organization, a second priority be established 

 by the Committee. 



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