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Show Will Study Drain For Reclamation Of Alkali Areas Government officials are in Delta this week conducting preliminary surveys to set up a 3-year experimental experi-mental project for the study of the reclamation of alkali lands In I the Delta area. The purpose of ! til i s study is to determine practical and economical methods for bringing bring-ing non-productive alkali land into in-to production. Cooperating with the drainage districts of the Delta area in this reclamation program are D. O. W. lsraelson, Dr. D. W. Thome, Dr. Dean F. Peterson and Mr. Shaw of the Utah experiment station, Logan, Lo-gan, Utah, and J. E. Christensen, Dr. Allison and Ronald Reeve from the U. S. Regional Salinity Laboratory, Labor-atory, Riverside, Califarnia. Dr. Dean F. Peterson and Rodney Rick-enback Rick-enback will conduct the field work during the coming summer. |