Show OUR SOIL OUR STRENGTH From Soil Conservation Office Watersheds The Mill 1 Sage Canyon Flat small watershed project in Sevier Sevier Se- Se vier County is now under way Chemical spraying of 2400 acres of sage brush is well under way This spraying is to remove competition com com- petition by brush to allow more beneficial grasses and forbes to grow thus providing more feed and better watershed protection Some of you may have heard about the small plane crash on this his project We Ve are glad to hear icar the pilot Is recovering James Gatherum of at Richfield reports good public cooperation on the work stating that one fellow in m that community communIty Ity ty walked in and donated 50 to help out entirely unsolicited Similar projects completed or near lear completion in the Texas- Texas Oklahoma flood areas passed their tests with flying colors where goose struck this spring Administrator D. D A A. Wiliams Wil- Wil limns iams reports that applications for or small watershed projects arenow are arenow now low pushing the 1000 mark and dirt is now flying on thirty of them in different parts of the U. U S S. S These projects are fin financed financed financed fin fin- 50 by local people and federal funds Equipment The Sanpete Soil Conservation Conserva- Conserva tion ion District has hired A Albert l 1 b e r rt t Antrei to drive the dump truck transferred from the army sur- sur plus r to In th the HIP distrIct Cox brothers will transport the army surplus cat from Salt Lake to Mt 1 Pleasant for the district this week The cat has been jeen at the Wheeler Machine l Co getting the hoist and tracks repaired Range Surveys s 's Walt Valt Ramsey Rumsey and Student Trainee Dean Harrison were making range site and condition condition condition condi condi- tion surveys on the Barton and G. G Aaron Hanson Hansen range on the West Vest Mountains last week These men are scheduled to begin watershed surveys on Six SixMile SixMile l 1 Mile le this week This survey will supplement engineering calculations calculations lions needed for Cor Sterling Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion Co proposed projects Topographic Surveys Delmar Beck and Edgar Mer- Mer 1 1 ream l lU began UC surveys Ul IU in lU ULl last Monday for the Manti 1 Irrigation Ir IrrIgation Irrigation Ir- Ir Company Soil Stewardship Sunday Soil Soil Stewardship Sunday was observed in nearly every church throughout the County this year yem We extend our congratulations to o the stake presidencies and the First Presbyterian Church in Mt 1 Pleasant for making this years year's program one well worth anyone's attendance to hear hem Learn safety by purpose not by accident |