Show biological SURVEY IS WILLING TO COOPERATE rodent control lender leader realys to countes Coun lya tys plea ilea for in kill ing prairie dogs in reply to a letter from county clerk clark frank halls stating that the farmers of the county are ready to cooperate in a prairie log dog campi campaign ign R scott zimmerman Zimmer nian leader of rodent cont control r ol 01 for the biological SY survey writes for further particulars about ahat can be expected of the farmers and the county he says march 9 1931 mr frank hall county clerk monticello utah door dear mr hall your letter of march ath has as been received and I 1 have conferred with I 1 mr black of blanding who ft ho is rc presenting your section at the state legislature 1 I have also beld old a conference with mr Bo blonton boonton Benn onton lon your ae letter tier as a whole seems to ti bo be somewhat general gene ial on the subject and for that reason it is rather ha hard rd for me to pay lay j just 6 st what iw steps to take as aa I 1 do not 1 K abw now how ow far the commie will go in a campaign for the control of prairie dogs the third paragraph in your letter states that the commissioners want to krow know what my department is willing to do and also states that the people are now ready to give their support to any program that I 1 may suggest in going aver over the matter with mr black h he a reema to be of the opinion that a very careful program should be worked out and that we should come to some agi cement ali as to the nature of procedures ce dures and also have necessary cooperating agencies enter into lio some me sort of definite agreement mr black is also of the opinion that we should rave a squad of men hired by the county to treat infested private owned areas area slid arid that this crew should be supervised by the federal government in previous correspondence correspond enca biti he hii juan county officials S last fill we outlined a program ot of procedure proc eduie for the pur purchase clase of roden loden knit l tit the county was unable to go abend because of lack of nf funds 01 perhaps because they felt the season was too far advanced and therefore nothing definite was worked outi it would surely be ref refreshing resMi nar to mp me to know exactly what the counte is in p haq position mon to do and what advancement manit they can make and what assurance they cap can give us as 88 to tn the cooperation in the future mv department has bas always been willing to assist and has we hive sent sr clel as in there to determine the it I 1 cst t kind of half hait not boniv once but 1 tiree different times time and I 1 have had in mv y asRi assistants stants as well as myself on the job to work un no e we stand ready reads to assist hut but we firt first wont to 6 know 0 v phat ahat the count v arn do and will do by bv bov of nf a definite appropriation or arl arrangements to go ahead with a definite tn the maff i over with mr he feels that son san juan fount raould assume the 0 treating private priva te owned areas either as a county project or that individuals hould be converted to all the iden ideas of taking care of their own awn problems on gieir holdings mr air bennion states fint alb state of utah through the land board has the right light to proad brov d for the control find and destruction dest of rests pests on land owned hv bv the state I 1 ill have pot not vet vat flip lund J pank ank of officers ficeri at berkeley hut but refer ti a statement they milde to me in their communication of some three felirs airo in which they stated that they were ready to take core 4 f 11 4 holdin pi if tle county and other interested parties would control rests nests on land to federal land bank property pio perty the federal government is not in in ft to treat all abo th federal ferl pral land in son san juan counte JAV wo horev r will do our sarr if the people show a real spirit of cooperation we flip willina will liK to take on nn ltv if and fellow rh dillner want w wo can call for foi the present and continuing on 0 hors in a full spirit nimit of but att we mut have so deficit nit n ark to and comet tangible to tie to kindly refer this leff lestr f tn amir find and have hav them pt on nn fl alp dipti mitter I 1 have already my mv nn atlon oa as weil ns mv 1 for fer yerk wik in im enfil jelv 10 I 1 bov e not included san junr county in the budget as the ilia people rave be ben n slow elow in acting but if san juan county t y foa bows the right light atti attitude tilde perhaps we c tan an adjust the matter very truly houis R SCOTT ZIMMERMAN leader rodent control Cunti ol the county commissioners held an informal conference yesterday yeste iday at alich which time billic it wa was decided to call the people of the various vadious communities together for the purpose of getting them organized to properly help and r support the rodent control directors when they come here heie to the campaign the following places and dates were set for mee meetings sunday march 22 e f lockerby Lock eiby Hoise Horse hoad licad ginger ild hill and ducolo ucolo at lockerby Lock eiby sunday march 22 blanding tuesday in the the after I 1 march 17 monticello wednesday march maich 18 in the evening the district between monticello creek and devil canyon thursday march 19 la sal not later than march 22 |