Show S soil 0 i conservation C 0 n s er news by kenneth williams last week I 1 had the ledge of attending this years annual conven tion of the utah state association of soil conservation districts approximately farmers and ran chers who are leaders in utah s soil conservation program attended this convention the entire two days of meetings were devoted to conser problems facing american agriculture today the thing that really impressed me through this entire convention was the way these common every day farmers led this important problem of soil conservation A few members from each governmental agency interested in conservation attended these meetings but we were only spectators the farmers were dealing with their own problems of getting more conservation applied on our farm lands they were working on what they can do to speed up this vital program in our state I 1 came from that meeting proud to be associated with such men men who took time out of their busy lives at their own expense to see what could be done to help their neighbor conserve his soil it is one of the most gratifying movements in the world today conserving our soil that we might prosper tomor row pastern eastern utah had some cepres enta tives at these meetings law rence of cleveland em ery county was there grand county was represented by george white and 0 E boulden of moab alfred frost and two of his associates at tended from san juan county A special program has been arran ged for at the next soil conservation district supervisors meeting in gr een river thursday march at 7 30 p m in the city hall law rence of cleveland utah will be there to speak on the nat lonal soil conservation picture law rence rene has served as a grass roots leader in soil con conservation ion or organ g an izat ions for the past ten years he is sure to have an inter interesting s at in dis ds i is cassion everyone is invited to at tend this meeting the brisco wash siphon is installed insall ed the S C S engineers have now turned their attention to getting the new sand gates at bris co wash and jess powells installed they are also working with wilsons on the installation of a new pump at the old 42 plant all of this work must be completed before the irn gating season begins this will pr use all of the engineering time allotted to green river for the next several weeks requests for technical assistance are still pouring in the supervisors have found it necessary to lish a priority list for the tech nici ans to work by anyone desiring technical help this year should get this information to the district sup so that they will be consid ered an assigning work priorities supervisors of your green river soil conservation district are del bert tidwell boyd hunt francis wilson chad moore and don hatch |