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Show Evan Lee Signs Soil Conservation Agreement Conservation work on more than two miles of the Virgin River will be accomplished under the Cooperative Co-operative Agreement signed Saturday Sat-urday by Evan Lee, Virgin farmer, far-mer, reports A. J. Webber of the St. George SCS office. Mr. Lee's 340-acre farm located three miles east of Virgin City, is composed of narrow strips of irrigated ir-rigated crop land adjacent to the Virgin River, and also sparsely vegetated mountainous land above the cultivated fields. Runoff from these steeply sloping waste areas has resulted in considerable (Continued on page four) Lee Signs Agreement (Continued from first page) erosion and deposition on the cul-j tivated fields and irrigation laterals. later-als. The Virgin River has also caused bank cutting along the valuable cultivated fields. In the flood of 1938, a tractor and several acres of Mr. Lee's limited irrigated land were washed away. In addition lo the approved cropping practices and better management of waste areas to control erosion, this agreement calls for the construction of soil-saving soil-saving dikes with controlled outlets, out-lets, bank protection work, tree plantings for permanent vegetative vegeta-tive cover of banks, and bypass of flood waters from range land to the river. ' Valuable cultivated fields on the lower portions of the Virgin River will also be protected from erosion and silting problems by the erosion control measures instituted institut-ed on this farm. Plans are ready for construction work to begin on Mr. Lee's farm very shortly. |