Show I OUR SOIL OUR STRENGTH From Soil Conservation Office Manti Mantl The Board of District Supervisors Supervisors Supervisors Super Super- visors Soil Conservation Service Service Service Ser Ser- vice and and Forest Service personnel personnel personnel person person- nel met last Monday londay evening Supervisors took under consideration consideration consideration consid consid- a Memorandum of Understanding Understanding Understanding Un Un- with the Forest Service The Forest Service will furnish to the district technical assistance equipment materials r and nd labor when needed If available available available a- a under this dum The district will determine determine determine deter deter- mine priorities for work on r ate land submit plans for work I involving Forest land and co cooperate cooperate cooperate co- co operate with the Forest Service i in educational work fire prevention prevention prevention pre pre- and fire suppression A 1 very interesting tour was conducted last Monday with Sanpete Extension Service and U US USA S A AC C Experimental Farm at Ephraim cooperating The tour included Canadian thistle thistle thistle this this- tle control on the Frank Wan Wan- lass farm phosphate treatments I on the Valton farm meadow improvements on the Curt farm varieties and md planting methods on the Roscoe Cox and Alonzo Hansen Hanson farms tall fescue pastures in inthe inthe inthe the Chester area phosphate and barnyard manure on the Elden farm and quack grass control on the Ralph Blackham farm Sterling Farrell Funk Funk- and Lindon Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson report the Blue Meadow mea area accessible to a jeep now will will- make surveys in the Blue Meadow Mcadow area aren in the near I future Ephraim Dean Folster FoIster has completed 6 G acres of land leveling technicians made a trip to Horseshoe Flats last Friday to evaluate work on the trans- trans mountain diversions Lots of water is running from the melting melting melting melt melt- ing snow and many good deep drifts remain The drifts in Ol- Ol Olsen's Olsen's sens sen's Canyon were estimated at 15 to 20 feet deep in places The yellow dogtooth violet now in bloom was about the o 0 only n 1 y noticeable vegetation growing at this time Recent storms have done wonders wonders wonders won won- ders for this area Below are arc the recordings taken recently by Delmar Beck of Precipitation for May lay I Gooseberry Reservoir Fair- Fair view April 27 to June 2 29 Beaver Deaver Dams Mayfield April 25 to June 4 26 Farnsworth Lake Salina April April April A- A 25 to June 4 25 Meadows Ephraim April 29 to May 31 Headquarters Ephraim April 29 to May 31 Oaks Ephraim April 29 to toMay toMay May 31 Majors Flat Ephraim April 29 to May 31 Box Creek Koosharem April 24 to May 31 16 Blacks Black's Flat U. Flat U. U M. M Creek Fish FishLake FishLake Lake April 23 to May 31 20 Manti Calvin and Ray flay Keller and Claud Maylett 1 are building ac access access ac- ac cess roads and developing water for livestock on t the their h e i r West mountain range land The water is being developed from small seeps which many times prove I very valuable to stockmen when II I properly developed Small seeps such as these are in most cases cases I Ithe the only source of water for fort stockmen on the West Vest mountain I range James Jorgensen is do doing doing do- do ing the dozer work I Clay Madsen plans to start fencing soon preparatory to a fall program on his his his' i West Vest mountain range land The new fence will protect the re- re seeded area until the new seedlings seedlings seedlings seed seed- lings become established Seed Seeding Seed Seed-I ing irig will begin this fall on at least t acres |