Vernal Express | 1953-02-05 | Page 3 | Soil Savers Section

I 1 SOIL SAVERS the district supervisors prospective district supervisors county agents and unit conservationists of the soil conservation service attended a meeting at heber tuesday of last week this is one of the ten meetings being held throughout the state to coordinate the activities of the district supervisors ext extension en service and soil conservation service bill morgan soil conservation service engineer from moab will spend the next few weeks in roosevelt designing structures for the flood pr program bill is taking grant cruggs place temporarily grant la is on a short detail to the state office in salt lake city six names have been proposed for the district supervisors three of these men will be elected at a district election to be held some time ume in march each of these men will be contacted to determine whether or not he will let his name go on the ballot the pry dry gulch irrigation company and the soil conservation service are working out bans plans to clean and enlarge lake fork rk channel for about 1000 feet above the new diversion leslie goodrich your district supervisor visor from bluebell says Crr land dl leveling equipment will ba be scarce this year marvin smith district supervisor 0 from vernal said that better pasture management and the use of commercial fertilizer on these pastures Is necessary increase production your pasture into four or parts should increase production up to 25 per r cent cent rc D red stewart of vernal is progressing gressi i 9 ra rapidly id y with the construction st 0 of the e sunshine heading the excavation work Is about completed this construction st work Is partly financed by the production and marketing administration and partly I 1 by the canal company under IL the flood program the designs were prepared by the soil conservation service mr stewart plans to have the structure completed before irrigation starts in the spring the murray canal company under the direction of william karren is receiving bids this week for their new canal heading above jensen they estimate the structure will cost about the company hopes to complete construction before high water this spring