Show OUR SOIL OUR STRENGTHS STRENGTH By Bp Carl Walker Wilker Unit Conservationist Soil Conservation Service Group Enterprise Work A considerable consid rable amount amount of personnel time and funds are spent with irrigation companies companies companies com com- and drainage districts The Records s and Reports Division Division Divi Divi- DivI 1 sion of classify this type of work as Group Enterprise Federal assistance t to groups both joth technical and monetary in Utah probably surpasses that of oi any other state in the union Because Because Be Bo- cause of the heavy demand for this assist assistance nce it has become necessary for district supervisors ors to set priorities on applications applications applications for assistance from companies companies companies com com- and groups Insufficient engineering and federal funds are available to do all the jobs at the time everyone would like to have them done It will be necessary for lor each cach irrigation company each drainage drainage drainage drain drain- age district and each unorganized unorganized unorganized group to place its improvements improvements improvements improve improve- ments for the rho next few years and pr present sent its plans to the local lo local local lo- lo cal office offic or district supervisor super super- supervisor supervisor visor if th they y desire federal assistance assistance as assistance as- as during 1958 1959 and 1960 I District Board Meets The Board of Supervisors of Sanpete will meet at the ManU Manti office next Monday evening January 27 at Films on watershed work a and n d publication of the district annual an- an annual annual an an- nual report will be two of the the- items on the program The district district district dis dis- board is panning to fo send each cooperator an illustrated copy of the 1957 progress progress' r re rc port I New Grass Wheatgrass ron is an improved strain of intermediate wheatgrass wheatgrass wheat- wheat grass may be used un under under under un- un der irrigation in a mixture with alfalfa for hay or pasture It may also be used on dryland at atthe atthe atthe the elevations with 14 inches or more mare of precipitation Snow School I ISnow Snow surveyors surveyors from in Utah and other western states are attending school in Jackson Wyoming this week Delmar Beck assigned to snow survey duties in this area is attending and expects to be back this weekend week weekend weekend end to begin l snow snow measurements measurements measurements measure measure- ments for the month of January Water S Supply ppl Outlook Gregory L. L Pearson hydraulic engineer Salt Lake City summarized the water outlook for the state as of January 1 1958 The water stored in inthe inthe inthe the the snow pack as measured near the first of Janu January ry varied from 95 per cent to per cent of average on the states state's water water- sheds The heaviest snow pack was in the north and south while in the center of the state it is near average Soil moisture is near average in the northern part of the state much above in the central and southern parts Reservoir storage is 55 per percent percent percent cent of capacity per cent of last y year ar and per cent cent of average n |