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A large number of people made contributions to this study and the author 

 wishes to express his appreciation for their contributions. 



Special acknowledgment is due to the late Don Davidson, Farm Economics 

 Research Division. Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. Mr. Davidson began the work and compiled much of the Corps 

 of Engineers' data on purchase records and leases. This study makes ex- 

 tensive use of materials from his unpublished draft report on "Agricultural 

 Impacts of the Surry Mountain Reservoir."' 



Elco L. Greenshields, also of the A.R.S., coordinated investigation work. 

 Special acknowledgment is due Mr. Greenshields; William F. Henry, New 

 Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, and George E. Frick, Agri- 

 cultural Research Service, stationed at New Hampshire, for their critical 

 review of the manuscript and analysis of the methods used. 



Special acknowledgment is due Norris M. Humphrey (Franklin Falls), 

 Arthur Snodgrass (Blackwater ) , Harry A. Morrison (MacDowell), and 

 Harry G. Lawton (Surry Mountain), the Corps of Engineers' employees in 

 charge at the various projects, for making available extensive data con- 

 cerning leases and operations of the dams; to former appraisers Ben P. 

 Little, Webster, Sidney Clark, Salisbury, J. M. Shaw, Franklin, and H. 

 N. Colby, formerly with the Corps of Engineers and now with the New 

 Hampshire Extension Service, for their knowledge concerning pre-construc- 

 tion use of the lands and some of the problems of acquisition ; to T. G. 

 Dickerson, Hill, G. G. Cummings. Bristol, Harry A. Knight, Keene, for 

 their background information on the pre-construction and purchase years: 

 and to the present boards of selectmen of the towns of Hill, Bristol, San- 

 bornton, New Hampton, Webster, Salisbury, Surry, Peterborough, Hancock, 

 Harrisville, and Dublin, and to the assessors of the City of Franklin, for 

 furnishing detailed data on livestock numbers and farming activities of 

 individual operators. Many former owners of land in the reservoir areas, 

 and past and present lessees also supplied data on their farming operations. 



A project of the scope of this one involves considerable field work. The 

 following individuals rendered material assistance in that respect: William 

 P. Haubrich, E. T. Bardwell, Clark Burbee, Richard Blood, W. F. Henry, 

 G. E. Frick, and Paul Bascom. 



April 19.58 



