Show SOIL CONSERVATION By Justin Somewhere between and Boulder is a large expanse ot bare at various angle and There In only a little vegetation growing In the small collections or wind blown sand in wane oi the una Even this area is called Three ol our Soil Conservation Fran Miller and Ivan on their way home from were caught in ar downpour in They reported that the was the dream of perfection ot the lower valley for a very little moisture held by the patches of all the water ran off at once in c great white loamy sheet three or lour Inches In a few minutes all the gullies were And In smother few minutes they wen practically All the water had gone down to the reservoirs of tho lower valley there was no Boll The rooks erode If more of the county were underlain with that might be a solution to our erosion Except that has gone out of the livestock business on and we don't want to tollow Of course It wasn't 1 am inclined to blame It on the exploiters that Mormon referred to in tho book of chapter verses and The next time you take anyone Boulder to show them the time your trip to coincide a downpour on There Is nothing like except rain water running off a tin Tho Escalante River Soil Conservation District's heavy equipment has been clearing land of brush and small trees on the farms of Hazel Eph and Leland and Is now making a small storage pond for Irrigation water on Ivan Lyman's These are all in The Upper Sevier Soil Conservation District's is working double with Gerald Veator taking turns with the regular Mack It has plowed a lot of land for planting to dryland pasture for spring and fall use between here and Hatch on Paul Jay Proctor's and Usher And in the last few days has made Irrigation water storage ponds for Henry Hughes and Ruland |