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Show NOTES FROM WASHINGTON Water developments and seed-to seed-to increase pasturage and improve im-prove range conditions are being emphasized in soil conservation work on Indian Reservations in Nevada, Idaho, Utah and California, Cali-fornia, according to a report submitted sub-mitted today by the Indian Service Ser-vice to Lee Muck, Assistant to the Secretary in Charge of land Utilization. This increases conservation con-servation activity on Indian lands is a part of the coordinated program pro-gram of better land use and man-agment man-agment being directed by the Land Utilization and carried out by action agencies of the Department Depart-ment of Interior cn the public domain of the West. Late snows in the high mountains moun-tains of the Colorado River watershed wat-ershed have altered conditions so that Lake Mead is expected to spill through the spillways at Boulder Dam for the first time this year. Only about 14,000 bighorn sheep are left in the United States today although these mountain climbers once flurished in msot mountain ranges of the West, according to a recent Fish and Wildlife Service Ser-vice report to Secretary of Interior. Shooting robins, bluebirds, woodpeckers, wood-peckers, and other song and insectivorous in-sectivorous birds with BB guns air rifles, or other weapons is a Federal offense bringing a maximum max-imum sentence of $500 in fines 6 months in jail, or both, accard-ing accard-ing to officials of the Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior. Motorists throughout the country coun-try are getting the finest grades of gasoline in the history of the gasoline age, according to a survey sur-vey of over 2,000 commercial motor mo-tor fuel samples just completed by the Bureau of mines, U. S. Deparment of the Interior. The Bituminous Coal Division of the Department of the Interior Inter-ior has cancelled a compliance hearing set for Lawrence Paul (Glenn Coal Co.), a registered coal distributor, Salt Lake City, Utah. The hearing was to have opened June 6 at Salt Lake City to determine whether or not the distributor had committed violations vio-lations of the Coal Act and regulations. re-gulations. The order stated that there appeared to be good cause for cancelling the hearing, subject sub-ject to renewal of it at any time. |