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Show I Soil Conservationists i Meet in Beaver Developement and proper utilization of our resources are the ultimate goals of the Beaver County Soil Conservation District, Dist-rict, declared Fred Harris, Chairman of the District Board of Supervisors, at a meeting of conservation agencies in Beaver. Each agency has a challenge to develop a conservation program which vill allow the people of the community to realize a permanent per-manent benefit, Mr. Harris stated. He pointed out that the Beaver Pilot District program was developed in 1954 with this in mind. Each conservation or land administering agency was invited to participate in the Pilot District program in an effort to show that a coordinated program pro-gram of conservation was more effective. The SCD board asked each of the cooperating agencies to report on their accomplishments accomplish-ments since the Pilot District Program was developed. Mr. J. Pratt Allred, Range Manager, U. S. Bureau of Land Management, reported the following activities in the Pilot LMstrict since 1954: Clearing and seeding operations performed ion 4,841 acres; twenty miles of fences constructed!; six. cattle guards installed, and one water developement project involving four miles of pipe line and three water troughs. Total cost of developement de-velopement on the BLM lands was $70,206.00. Local contributions con-tributions from livestock men was $7,2(12.00. The remaining $62,726.00 was paid from Federal Fed-eral funds. The Forest Service has reseed-ed reseed-ed 1300 acres of range land, constructed three miles of fence, and two stock ponds, according to Don Seaman, District Ranger. They have plans to begin work on conservation measures on the Beaver River - North Fork sub-watershed sub-watershed in 1958. Bud Phelps reported 532 acres of clearing and seeding and ZVz miles of deer access roads completed by the Utah State Fish & Game Commission. Commis-sion. They hope to complete construction of a fish pond at Anderson Meadows in 1958, Mr. Phelps stated. Considerable local interest in the Beaver Pilot District was reported by Grant Esplin, Beaver Bea-ver County Agent. He said that the conservation program would move 'faster if the local farmers were fully aware of the agricultural agri-cultural potential of lands in the Beaver district. Increased technical assistance assist-ance to help farmers and ranchers ranch-ers apply conservation practices prac-tices on their lands has been provided by the Soil Conservation Conserva-tion Service, according to Thomas B. Evans of the U S Soil Conservation Service. Farmers are receiving approximately ap-proximately 50 Federal cost-sharing cost-sharing for installing approved conservation measures, according accord-ing to Keith Barton, office manager man-ager for the Agricultural Stabilization Sta-bilization and Conservation Service Ser-vice at Beaver. |