Show soil conservation equipment supervisors hold meeting equipment supervisors of four northern utah soil conservation districts met monday august 14 at the S C S office in ili morgan to reallocate heavy duty duly equipment on loan from the he so soil I 1 conservation service and to work out other problems concerned with etli tile the operation of 0 equipment used in performing work ork on oil farms in morgan arid and summit counties T E moore of summit county district was chairman with the following representatives ives participating C E rich of morgan draton Braxto ii puller fuller of ogden valley and hugh erekson of ramas valley supervisors expressed regret that heavy beavy equipment shortages break downs and emergency work had delayed regular land leveling irrigation and sage plowing operations C E rich stated that there Is now a shortage short age of both government and lie heavy equip equipment men t sul suitable tab I 1 e for land leveling drainage irrigation and reservoir work to overcome these difficulties says rich we have adopted the follow following ing program encourage pronte te equipment oper operators a tors to movi into burn brens by having work all lined up lor them with complete spec district purchases of smaller earthmoving earth moving equipment capable of being used with f faim ar n i tractors tractor cooperation with county commissioners and civic groups encourage farmers to make use of and trade equipment which is already on farms try to obtain surplus army and navy equipment by purchase or grant chairman moore pointed out ahat it hat each district has more requests for soil and winter water conqer conservation work from farmers lancheros lan chers and irrigation companies than can call he handled with present facil illes ench each district now has an all inventory of the amount of work t needed by both farmers and ranchers 0 C E rich emphasized the import anve aico of the conservation program and joly job proposals ns ins an outlet for postwar labor and equipment hugh erekson of ramas kamas stated that if farmers and ranchers expect soil conservation districts to obtain surplus army and navy construction equipment for conservation work they hall had better make their wants known now by b informing their heir senators and conri congi eismen casmen |