Show S soil 0 i I 1 conservation C 0 n s e r v a t ion news by kenneth williams supervisors meeting for he green river soil conservation district was held tuesday february 14 in the city hall delbert tidwell francis wilson boyd hunt don hatch ed win in wilcox and ken hen williams were in at A film showing how water could be saved both in arriga tion canals and on individual farms was shown mrs irene alien allen was appointed as the new secretary for thu sher she will replace ken Sil silliman linian who resign ed last december after serving as secretary for about 15 years mrs alien allen has generously offered to do nate her time to further the soil con program for green river we should all be proud of those who are willing to serve their community like mrs alien allen francis wilson has made arrange ments for the emery county committee to spend a day in green river on in february 27 they will as sits local farmers to sign up for fed eral cost share assistance for soil conservation work in 1956 livestock men can also apply for drought as si stance at this time tune the committee intends to be in green river by 10 00 A AT and will stay until 3 3 oo 00 P AT the sign up will be held at the old school house I 1 will be there to dis cuss your conservation problems wi wl th you so that you can get assistance for those practices you need the engineers have completed plans and specifications for two new sand gates on the gravity canal alfred king spent several hours with me last week developing an ov er all conservation plan for the can al several conservation measures are being installed on green river farms now nolan curtis is building a fl protection dam at the upper end of his island wilson produce co is installing a new pump and level ing about 15 acres of land the bris co wash siphon is nearing com comple ale tion the gravity canal has re align ed about i 1 feet of canal just be low wilson s pumping plant several other projects are pending and will start as soon as the engineering work can be completed ed |