Show I I 1 I 1 1 I I I MORE LA VERKIN CREEK CONSERVATION WORK APPROVED I t Another unit of soil aU conservation work along La Verkin Creek was ap approved rOVed with the signing last lut week of a cooperative agreement Between Benjamin and William Bringhurst and the La Ash Verkin-Ash Creek Soil SOU Conservation District The property consisting of acres Is located one mile southeast of and will be a continuance continuance continuance con con- of the soU soil conservation work recently completed on the Martin Martin Mar Mar- tin Anderson Leland Bringhurst Archie Bringhurst and L L. C. C Pendleton Pendleton Pend Pend- leton farms This unit of work is Ls a Ii portion of a a complete erosion control con con- control program along La Verkin Creek and in addition to protecting these lands will reduce erosion and tie tie- de deposition position on farms Protection to lands bordering La Verkin Creek will 1 consist of cabled cottonwood trees and log lOi and rock Jetties which will protect willow plantings until they become established established for permanent bank tion Soil Soli saving dikes with controlled control control- led outlets wUl will be built along th the lower field to prevent ex excess elt cess Irrigation water from cutting deep gullies Rain runoff from nearly barren range lands above this farm has haa de deposited deposited de de- posited sand wand and debris on the valuable val val val- cultivated fields and In the Irrigation canal that furnishes water to this and six 1 other farms below To allow the vegetative cover conr on these range lands to develop the range land will wUl be grated grazed To further assist the development devel of grass the range lands willbe will willbe b be fenced to exclude all trespass stock This Ibis is the second soil conservation conserva col tion cooperative agreement to be signed sll between the recent organized La Ash Verkin-Ash Creek Soil SoU Conservation Conser District and farm owners in to the District |