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Show Local Flood Area Inspected . (!) REGULATION OF CRAZING IS NEEDED Over - Grazing of Privately Owned Areas Is Found To Be Responsible Tor Flood Condition Near Springville. All the ingenuity of man cannot cope with nature in the matter of building up resistance re-sistance against canyon floods. Such is the unanimous le-licf le-licf of a group of men consisting consist-ing of members of the Utah flood commission. U S. forest officials, of-ficials, engineers, geologists and conservationists, who Tuesday made a careful survey of Little. Rock and Spring Creek canyons, east of Springville. The trip was made in connection with a flood control survey being made under the direction of the state land bonrd and in cooperation coopera-tion with the Utah experiment station sta-tion and forestry department. The study revealed a striking contrast in the conditions of tho two canyons. The watersheds of Little Rock is a privately, owned range, while a large portion of the Spring Creek is within a notional forest, and partially controlled by Springville City. Contrast Is Shown The contrast reveals that Lhti privately owned area Is practically barren because of ovor-grazing, while Spring Creek canypn has a substantial growth of vegetation, which has prevented floods since 1923. "Here is one of the finest examples exam-ples of the importance of public ownershiD of tho watersheds of this state," said Reed W. Bailey, a member of the flood commission, in addressing the group Tuesday. Mr. Bailey has been assigned to make a special study of all flood areas in Utah. "The privately ovncd rango Is terribly over-grazed, and there is no way of preventing the disastrous disas-trous flood that came out of Little Lit-tle Rock canyon last year, doing thousands of dollars worth of darnage to private property and to the state fish and game far," Mr. Bailey pointed out. Control Necessary-It Necessary-It is the hope of tho commission commis-sion that the state and federal gov-. gov-. ernmcnta will eventually, by purchase pur-chase or trade, come into poR.ies-sion poR.ies-sion of all of the state's important watersheds where- vegettUlon is essential es-sential to tho protection of life and property. Among thOHe in the group Tuesday Tues-day , were W. R. Chaplino, In charge of range icbtruicu, U. S. forest service, Washington, D. C; C. L. Forsling, director Great Basin forest experiment station ; Dr. George A. Anderson, Springville; William Whitehead of Sprlngvillo r city council; R. J. Iiecrnft, U. S. A. C. range expert, asHigned to flood investigations ; John F. Mendenhall, Menden-hall, executive secretary state land I board; Charles DeMolny, supervisor j Uintah National forest; L. L. Bunnell, Bun-nell, president Provo Conservation, anHOcialion; Prof. Gnorge Hanuon, geologist, Brigham Young university; univer-sity; Hugo Price, Utah county engineer; en-gineer; Mark Anderson, secret ary Provo Conservation association ; Reed Bailpy, geologist, U. S. A. C, assigned to special Htudy of flood, areas In Utah, and William Witney, superintendent of Utah stale f iah and game farm. . . i |