Show 44 Million Worth of Crops By Reclamation A record high of more than worth of irrigated irrigated ed crops was raised in 1962 on 20 Federal Reclamation projects in Region 4 Region Region- Regional al Director F M Clinton of Salt Sait Lake City said this week This is an increase of about over 1961 Part of the increase is accounted for forby forby by about acres of land supplied with water from new project works on the th e Collbran Colo Hammond Hammon N Mex and Weber Basin utah Projects ABOUT 70 PERCENT of o f all the crops grown on irrigated acres were for for- forage age crops mainly alfalfa hay hayand ha y and irrigated pasture The end products from forage are are the meat and dairy supplies so essential to balanced diets The gross value of Region 4 Reclamation crops averaged 92 per acre The most lucra tive crops were the fruit crops Fruit crops accounted for 26 percent of the gross crop value although only a little littlemore littlemore more than 4 percent of the cropped land is in fruits Vegetables field crops dry beans and sugar beets and cereal crops complete the list of crops grown on the Region 4 Federal Reclamation pro pro- projects Region 4 covers western Colorado northwestern New Ne w Mexico southwestern Wyom Wyom- Wyoming fog ing and nearly all of the th e State of Utah the self dumping system system tem for unloading overburden in the quarryIng operation Also at previous staff meet meet- meetings meetIngs ings Mr Wilkins and Mr Ad- Ad Adams Adams ams both were presented a 10 year length of servIce emblem bY Museum Geologist Theo Theo- Theodore lore dore White |