| Show S 0 oil i I 1 I 1 conservation co n s er news by kenneth williams snow course measurements for february have been completed in utah generally speaking the water outlook for the 1956 irrigation sea son is good water content on mast of the green river drainage is above aver age lake fork creek on the uinta mountains showed a water content per cent of normal the price river watershed averaged about per cent of normal measurements on the san rafael river watershed was about per cent of normal all in all this points to a much b righter water outlook for drought riddles eastern utah A few watersheds in northern utah are enough above average that spring floods are possible of course the amount of moisture we get the next two months will have a quite an influence on the over all water picture snow surveys in utah are meas ared by technicians of the sod soil con service in cooperation wi th several other agencies snow measuring is ib considered one of the for soil conservation pers onel A person mast learn to take pare care of himself under the worst of condit ions when working on snow soil conservation service ians making in this area include scott herman blaser richard call and harland stewart snow surveys pers onel for utah recently attended a school at alta where they were shown how to pro perly sample snow depths and re cord the correct data they were al so instructed on how to survive in the mountains in the winter in case of accident those attending the sc so hool claimed that they really put in a days work every day soil sod conservation service engineer bill morgan and harl stewart spent more time in green river last week on briscol wash siphon and sand gates for the gravity canal big irrigation company projects are pr keeping our engineers bu sy the district supervisors have div en canal company projects priority for assi assistance this means that a few individual farmers may have to wait a while for soil conservation service help again I 1 say it will pay you to plan to do and let me know what you plan to do and I 1 H try and have you some help when you need it |
