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Show Study Erosion , On Day s Tour Of Watersheds A tour was made last week of erosion control projects in Sevier county above Salina by Sevier river riv-er canal companies and foresters of the area. Forest rangers Victor Stokes and G. Lancaster of Fillmore Fill-more guided the group. Attending from Delta were Le Roy B. Smith, president of Delta Canal Company; A. O. Gardner, president, Melville Irrigation Company, Com-pany, Robert Robinson, vice-president,' Deseret Irrigation Company; and Clark Bliss, vice-president, Abraham Ab-raham Irrigation Company. With triem were Reed Gates and Orval E Winkler, Salina, and Juneius Metcalf, Gunnison. Among their findings were loss of land and vegetation on the Salina Sal-ina creek drainage, the problem of deposition of silt in canals and dams of the Redmond project. Pre vention of such wasting away of the soil was observed at the Soldier Sol-dier canyon reseeded area. On the Black mountain forage t area deer are browsing away ed-I ed-I ible plants, leaving an increasingly increasing-ly strong stand of inedible native grasses indicating a diminishing deer population. Around Gooseberry Goose-berry ranger station varying degrees de-grees of soil loss and flood hazard were noted. The tour was completed com-pleted after an inspection of Salina Sal-ina canyon watersheds. |