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Show ii m I' ill ippBjjwiM iiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiii ilium Dr. Edwin L. Peterson Narrative Report . . . WATER PICTURE LOOKS BRIGHTER By Max L. Phillips Hopes for a fairly good water year are mounting. The snow survey for May 1 indicated that our Beaver Mountain snow courses are about 90 of average. aver-age. The ditch lining program is moving along, wtih over 11,000 linear feet of concrete ditch lining installed on the farms of Oren Puffer, Ross Marshall, McCoy Williams, L. D. Tonn, C. R. Wiseman, Clarence and Wayne Gillins, and R. A. Hilde-brand. Hilde-brand. Another 4,000 feet of lining is about complete on the Leland Dalton and E. N. Davie farms. . Land leveling jobs have been completed on the farms of Clark Smith, Delvin Smith, Les White, Vivian Edwards, Fay Ashworth, LaVar Gale, Bernard Walker, Dan Joseph, Morton Smith, Ora and Ike Hofheins, Dale Harris, Wendell Green, Bob Brown and Kenneth Yard-lty. Yard-lty. A number of jobs are surveyed, sur-veyed, designed and ready for construction and there are cjuite a few jobs approved for ASC cost sharing which . need surveys and designs. Anyone needing technical assistance from the Soil Conservation Service Ser-vice should make request thru the Twin-M or Beaver SCS districts, dis-tricts, or direct to the SCS office of-fice in Beaver, at least a week in advance. George A. (Art) Peck, who has been with us almost two years, has been transferred to Mt. Pleasant, where he will be Work Unit Conservationist for the SCS. Transfer is effective May 8. We appreciate very much the capable help he has given to the district cooperat-crs cooperat-crs in Beaver County, and wish him success and happiness in his new assignment. |