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Show Billionth Acre Placed In Conservation Plan The southwest region of the Soil Conservation Service, made up of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, has the honor of having organized or-ganized the "blllionth-acre" soil conservation district In the nation, W. M. Hasfurther, District Conser-atlonlst, Conser-atlonlst, working with the Iron county Soil Conservation District ui Iron county, was notified today by Ray Walker, 6Ute conservationist for Utah This Is th 1,172.000 acre San Juan Soil Conservation District Dist-rict in South-western Colorado. This announcement was made, in connection with the tenth anniversary anniver-sary of the first soil conservation district In the country In Anson County, North Carolina, home county coun-ty of Dr. H. H. Bennett, recognized world leader In the Soil Conserva- tion movement and chief of the Soil Conservation Service In ths United States. |