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Show SOUi SURVEYING UNIT NOW IX)CATK1 ' l ST. GEORGE Tho soil surveying unit of the special force of technicians now directing a land-and-water resource re-source study of Washington County arrived in St. G-eorge Tuisday and is now engaged in carrying out the survey according to the accepted standards of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture. The soil surveying party has been transferred to Washington County from Salt Lake County where the men have been working work-ing all summer. The party is comprised of F. O. Youngs, of the Bureau of Soils, Dr. D. S. Jennings of the Utah Agricultural Agricultur-al Experiment Station, I. D. Zo. bell, Lemoyne Wilson, and Mr. Wallace. The soil studies are being con-. con-. ducted simultaneously with the , water and economic studies pro-, pro-, vided under a project approved , recently by the Utah Emergency Relief Administration, on recom-. recom-. mendation of the State Planning , Board and other agencies of the . state government. The work is . being done under the immediate direction of the Agricultural Ex-i Ex-i periment Station of the Utah . State Agricultural College. r The Washington County study t is the first of the kind to be un-j un-j dertaken in Utah and it is be-i be-i lieved that, funds permitting, dt r may be extended to all other . counties of the state as a guide t to land use planning, rural rehabilitation, re-habilitation, agricultural, develop-s develop-s ment, and general rural welfare a activities. 3 Besides the supervisors en-3 en-3 gaged on this project, between seventy-five ajnd eighty residents j of the county are said to be de riving employment on it. |