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Show Annual Meeting oi Area Soil Conservation Districts Features Conservation of Water ' Cedar City was the site Friday of last week for a day-long ai.-nual ai.-nual meeting of Area Soil Conservation Con-servation Districts. Bill Thorley of Cedar City was In charge of the event which drew 30 representatives from districts dis-tricts in the five-county area of Iron, Washington, Millard, Beaver Bea-ver and Kane. Storms, It was reported, re-ported, hampered attendance. One of the highlights of the meeting was a report made by Wayne Wilson, LaVerkin, who recently returned from Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, as a member of a delegation to promote congressional congres-sional interest in the pending Dixie Project in Washington county, and which will affect other counties of the area as well. Wilson indicated that the delegation dele-gation returned with high anticipation anti-cipation that the Dixie Project would receive the approval of congress in the present session. High encouragement, he reported, report-ed, was given the group by Sen. Carl Madden of Arizona, chairman chair-man of the Senate committee now handling the proposed legis- Gregory Pearson, director of vater Burveys for the SCS In the state of Utah, reported that as of March 1 of this year, winter win-ter sheds reports Indicate that present measurements are 50 per cent below the lowest year since records have been kept on the various sheds. He reported on water forecasts and precipitation tables and forewarned the group of the extended drouth conditions condi-tions that can be expected from the poor water year that has been recorded. A combined report on water conservation was presented to the delegation by Dan Lawrence, assistant director of the Utah Water and Power Board, and Bruce Anderson, Utah State University Uni-versity instructor who has Just returned from Iran to assist the Iranian nation in agricultural developments. They reported to the group that new water sources are practically prac-tically exhausted. As the result of this best source of water both for culinary and for agricultural use is the wise use of present water supplies. Complete utiliza-tion utiliza-tion of present water supplies remaining as the best methods of gaining greater water usage, they stressed. Status of the district Grass Roots Inventory being conducted by SC Districts throughout the United States was reported by Lawrence Thorderson, state coordinator co-ordinator of the Soil Conservation Conserva-tion Districts of Utah. Status of lands and land usage has been reported by the U. S. Forest service ser-vice and Bureau of Land Management, Man-agement, he reported. The survey sur-vey being made on the best suitable use of various private lands Is now being aecw.Yiplished to add to the Forest and BLM reports, he Indicated. When completed com-pleted the results will be assembled assem-bled to gether for constructive suggestions to the Department of Agriculture to determine wise expenditures of federal funds, he stated. i i |
