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October 28, 1958
Pr.lnor Alaska* bj copy
30 ACRE PROGRAM
The Alaska Rural Rehabilitation
Corporation is now ready to clear
all tracts up to thirty acres at
a minimum cost of slashing and
bulldozing. Applications have
been prepared and may be filled
out at the Rural Development
office.
It is desirable to have those
applications turned in at once
so that as much land as possible
may be stumped this fall.
Before anyone will be entitled
to participate in the 30 acre
. program, he must first hign an
application requesting additional
clearing up to 30 acres, and
second, he must hn\»c completed
his Security and Development
Program.
Charges for clearing -over and
above 15 acres will bo uniform
with those established by the
Realty Contracts. Rumorous
tracts ha-ve been charged $50,00
per acre for land cleared ready
for stumping. This land will
now be' stumped, for an addition
al $22,00 per acre. The Board
of Directors have authorized de
ferment of payment of principal
on this new clearing until 1945.
It is felt that this v/ill allow
each farmer sufficient time to
get his farm on a paying basis.
Additional clearing is entirely
optional. Since it ‘is readily
apparent that a farm with- thirty
acres can pay put more easily
than a farm with fifteen acres,
it is felt that a majority of
Colonists will avail themselves
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LAST BUDGET APPROPRIATION
When application was made for the
last funds in the amount of
:^500,000 to complete this Project
this was cut by the Washington
Office to $350,000 and wc were
instructed to prepare a budget
for this amount. After the bud
get was prepared and submitted
wo wore instructed that no budget
would be considered that did not
budget funds so that at least
35 acres were cleared. This was
deemed by the Board of Directors
to bo absolutely impossible and
was finally cut to 50 acres so
the funds were granted strictly
on the provision that an average
of' 30. acres would be cleared on
each tract.
Duo to ci short s.go of water in the
Civic Center, It will be necess
ary to Install a new water system
in orc!cr to properly operate the
processing and the various other
units of the Civic Center. This
unforeseen expenditure will have
to bp mot by the strictest economy
in other places. Collections
must be made on accounts due the
Corporation. The oxtenslcn~~of
credit, loans, etc. must be cur
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of- this opportunity.
Those desiring the full thirty
acre program will be givon firfet
consideration. However, arrange
ments will bo made l-ater whereby
clearing will be done to a lower
limit.