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Show , Mountainside Terracing For Conservation c A'K'fA) WithoutVegetationGushingWaterCut vr Into Bedrock When Cloudbursts Hit t 1 Continued From ? o Preceding Page tain side so that it wuld again until 'rv?-- ; s'nsvtA tv Xr V r, and annual perennial wheat could absorb Che most violent down- plants and crested be grown. more. ask for and pour Fifteen hundred acres of land Grazed bare, the pounding with 700 miles of rain drops would seal the earth were terraced construction followas solidly as an asphalt high- deep theditch contour of the mounway and turn the entire rain- ing They were dug deep so fall down the canyon. The tains. water would be that run-of- f gushing stream could cut the in them and held. In canyon slopes to the bedrock caught terrace a dam was built and shoot the top soil and boul- each it every 15 feet so that ders out of the canyon into the across terrace would not a mile-lonvalley. down the hill if one secThat is exactly what happen- empty tion were to burst. The entire ed for the second time in 1936. 3,000 acre area that was the v were no lost, lives Fortunately crux of trouble was fenced off but again homes were hurled so that cattle and sheep could away, buried in mud or crushed. not chop down the vegetation. Now the loss in flood damage in Today, with the .exception of 13 years had mounted to more than $350,000 the people of a few small spots, 'the area is sodded with thick grass and has Willard had been a grass covering. Only twice. moved into wildlife feed from it. The community Now almost completely reaction. With Robert Stewart, Box Elder county agricultural! stored to its original condition, of agent, and A. G. Nard, superin- it is probably the best "piece tendent of Cache National Fo- land, from the viewpoint of A or somerest leading the way, a Citizens soil conservationist Ccmeervation Corp3 (OCC) groiip one looking at it from a home was secured to work in the rav- on the mountains foothills, than any section along the Waaged area. . satch . range. ,, deVisioning greater flood Private land across the fence struction in future- years. Wil- from Forest Service adminlard City levied a tax to raise isteredthearea looks like a stretch of the for the purchase money of the Sahara desert compared with funnel land and the to it, the people of Willard state road commission and Box can now feel reasonably safe Elder county helping, bought it that half of a mountain wont from the private owners. They fall- - on them 'in the middle of turned the land over to the For- a dark rainy night. est Service to be administered. After more than a quarter of A program of. soil .conserva- a century--and- a cost- of- - half a , tion was inaugurated as a mat- million dollars, the Willard ' ter of necessity that in 18 years creek is again crystal clear. has proven the wisdom of treating your, land at least as fairly Welcome At Refuge as it provides for you. s Visitors' are welcome at the With the close cooperation of 64,000 acre Bear River Migratory the soil conservation service, Bird Refuge. There are 200 spethe CUC boys treated 40 acres of cies of birds to be seen; youve land in 1936, the year of the never seen anything like itJ If you want the finest duck last great flood. It was completed five years later, In 1941, and goose hunting in the entire and had cost $150,000, less than U.S.A., be in Box Elder county half the amount of property in November or December. There are thousands of acres of marshdamage caused by floods. The skinned area was first es, fields and ponds supporting seeded with rye as a temporary an enormous duck and goose cover to hold the soil remaining population. . 4 g jkj" vrtV or , j?E? C1 4i" ' vV- f ;t - r, Er r c.y 4 sledge-hammere- hip-hig- TW irr J !! Part Of 700 Miles Of Terracing . done on 1500 acres of land in the Willard Basin area to keep the sod solid and hold , water. Once bare, the mountainside funneled dangerous flood waters towards Willard , Do You Know ' That the mountains traversing the center of Utah, from north to south, consist of - four distinct mountain ranges? The Wasatch Mountains from Idaho south to Mt. Nebo. Then follow the Sanpltch, the Pahvant, and Tushar. Each one is dissimiliar to the others. xtend ELECTRIC GENERAL APPUfiMCE ' the first time, Utah led 'the United States in the production of gold? , In that. year Utah produced 28 percent of the Nations gold , - . That part of Utahs farming land lies in the Columbia River drainage system? 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