Show C C C BoYs BoY's Boys Bo s Building I s in Top Of Mountains I I Few p people ople of Dvis D county h he have e opportunity tp to actually Pee shat the camp of SI Cross is doing at heIr encamp encamp- encampment encampment ment nt at the head hend o 0 Parrish car caron carvon carvon von on It is general knowledge that the entire pro program am of this thiB 18 camp campis IS to aid in the con rol of oC erosIOn and floo flood and Vi k gr at nt amount of work ork toward this owl oil V was vis s ac accompli hed last wint mt r 1 in m the bUild building building mg ing of dykes check dams spill spill- spillways ways S was SW etc i 1 11 the tte main mam part of the count county j I IThe The work bem being don done in the mountains bor bordering dering the east cist of the t the county Is however the most important work ork toward to flood kind strange e eh I It h enough the least known to the tho resident of the town and ind count county We We of of the camp therefore feel I that as the work is for fo for the interest t and benefit of the people they should become more closelY closely nc ac with Ith it As the water causing causing the floo floods 3 comes from these thee mountains it IS only lo logically assumed that the main mam pre preventive e to 10 there then This p preventive e a is set up in a ser serles serres series res les of what are arc called s These terraces are slanting slanting- ditches parallel to each othet othel and graduating m ing to the base blIe of the mountain to the top horizontal to the base of I It They are arc spaced at an inter inter- interval interval alof val al of ten feet from terrace to I terrace Of course in sections thickly covered coffered CO ered with quaking as aspens aspens aspens pens scrub oak and other note floral these terraces are arc not need needed needed needed ed as a rule because the water of running down clown the slope wIll wall seep into the roots and leave around the plants How However However ever eHr in thickly wooded areas m here where here the ground surface ha has the appearance of being to erosIOn narrow hand made mide terraces are constructed These may be In short chort disconnected len lengths thc called or one terrace caved pl It is generally in iii regions or- or du or arlly roel rocky rock where ilant life IS that terraces terrace area arel needed The theory of the whole hole plan IS that the falling v water ater or know mel melling ling between bet those these terraces wIll run into the terrace directly below belo and being stopped there will cither er cr run tun along the terrace 01 of seep nto the ground Thu Tho Th ater seep seeping m ing into the ground IS 13 not only arrestEd from pouring down doV mb the bailey v alley below and flood flooding mg but It also stored later to 1 run iun un into sprigs an and to be used for v or culinary purposes in m thelley the valley The Theater water ater running alone alone- the ter terI I faces aces is guided into old wash ash outs or gullies and is taken care of ot by bycheck check dams These check dams al ai e bUilt of roc rock and heavy steel teel wire and andare are arc given an nn estimated life of thirty tears cars ears I The water Hater hiving having been turned from terrace to gully runs run runs to these methodically lly placed d chi chick k dams dame and drops over them on to i a level rod rock In this way all fore foreign foreign ln ign matter picked up b by the water lter IS deposited on the iv lV and the theater water ater is slowed up In its race do down racedo hill hIlI t tie the e water ater I leaches eaches a regular creek cicek CI eek bed and continues its way down the canyon can on not in m a n rushing muddy torrent but in m an orderly manner helping to mike make the clear creel coId cold creel wa a water ater ter for which Davis county is 15 known I Many people wonder if these terraces do not cut up and spoil the attractiveness of the tho mountains It Y In rather be said ald that they add beauty to the more barren places in m which th are made Grass Grase is sown in allot all of ot these ter- ter terraces terraces ter terraces races not only making a trap to beautiful catch water but also beau green mounds what would othern otherwise Ise be he ugly ditches When one orl originally saw barren rocky slopes lopes he will III now see sec broad green belts running In methodical order for hundreds pf feet fed long along m mountain sides After seeing them one could only sav say I Ithe f the no ie 1 e a beautifier a credit and a boon to DavIs count I Experiment his has proved p proved oved that tIlls thus plan of erosion co control rol is one of the best and accomplishes li hes that for which it is intended This work It ItIS itis itis IS estimated will c extend tend over o a perIod completion of years an and at It its comple comple- tion the thc floods wh chi have harried the towns people and farmers of David county shill shall have been done away with along with the fear which often time accompanies mes a spring after a hard winter vs inter I OLIN mN P C BAIN ERR |