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Show Soil Conservation Service Makes Activity Report According to D. Claude Urie, chairman of the District Board of Supet visors, applications for both technical assistance and heavy equipment continues to be submitted to the District Board. At the present time the District tractor is working sixteen hours .1 day helping to clear roads in the Beryl area and alleviate the livestock situation. The practices that appear to be in greatest demand at the present pres-ent time are land leveling, overnight over-night storage ponds, lieadgates, new canal and ditch construction, construc-tion, irriguted pastures, and dryland dry-land grass plantings. Thirty-two farm and ranch conservation plans, covering G2.1W1 acres, were developed this year, making mak-ing a total of 190 active plans embracing 2C2,5!tS acres Mr. Urie states that some of the conservation practices established estab-lished this year were 1,4!)7 acres of land leveling, ICS irrigation structures, .THS acres of irrigated pasture, 1 acres of range planted plant-ed to dryland grasses, 30 overnight over-night storage ponds, 5,826 acres cleared of brush. 213.330 linear feet of new canal or ditch construction. con-struction. Irrigation companies have been active In the past year improving im-proving their irrigation systems and developing designs for structures, struc-tures, in conjuction with the Soil Conservation Service, for construction con-struction in 1919. The Spring Creek-La Verkin Creek Irrigation company riprapried the face of its dam at Meadow Hollow, with rock. Taragonah Canal company installed three Parshall flumes to measure the water in the ditches dit-ches and insure' equal division. This same company also constructed con-structed a gravel trap to keep gravel and sand out of its ditches. The Soil Conservation Service has completed designs for a new concrete diversion and two concrete con-crete water division structures for the Coal Creek Irrigation company. com-pany. A new ruble masonry di-veslon di-veslon has also been designed for the Desert Reclamation company com-pany at Newcastle. The Tarowan Canal company Is planning to move Its main irrigation canal from the main part of the city to the north end of the city limits. li-mits. This will entail at least enlarging one mile of canal and constructing two concrete diversion diver-sion boxes. |