In any situatiuii where private holdings are acquired under the rights 

 of eminent domain, feelings against this invasion of the established order 

 can run high. However, time has a way of softening these feelings, especially 

 if most people become convinced that just compensation has been received. 

 But a number of individuals involved with the projects under study, either 



Table 19. Purchases of Real Estate for the Franklin Falls, Blackwater, 

 and Surry Mountain Flood Control Reservoirs^ 



1 Compiled by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Pro- 

 duction Economics Research Branch, and N. H. Agricultural Experiment Station, from 

 land appraisal and land acquisition records of the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army. 



2 In some instances, two or more parcels in the same ownership were appraised 

 together. 



** Includes severance damages and deficiency and interest payments on real estate 

 acquired by condemnation. Does not include $14,695 paid for removal of bodies from 

 seven cemeteries. Does not include $94,055 paid for town and public service properties 

 that did not involve fee-simple real estate. 



■* As classified by the land appraisers. 



^ Plowable land (used for crops, hay, rotation pasture or idle). 



*J Non-plowable, or stony, brushy and woodland pasture. 



"* Includes deficiences and interest payments allowed by courts in condemnation cases. 



'^ Includes the appraisers' estimates of reasonable severance damages in cases in- 

 volving parcelization. 



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