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Show SOIL" AVEE.S By Howard M. Ivory Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District News Ouray Park Canal company has installed three divider head-gates head-gates and two large drop structures struc-tures in their system. Two more drops will be installed this fall. B. O. Cotton was engineer tor these jobs. t g Q g Gordon Marsh expects to install in-stall a pump to irrigate about 80 acres above the canal. An over-night reservoir will be constructed con-structed to hold the water for 14 to 18 hours. Grant Chugg, SCS engineer, is working out the details. I . sCs George Rawlings, Pete Hunt and Lynn Whitlock stocked then-farm then-farm ponds with bass and blue gill this week. S C S I A. R. Shulthes has purchased the Art Graham equipment. He expects to do land leveling, build farm ponds and other construction con-struction jobs for farmers here , in the Basin. SCS I Don Allred plowed under 10 1 acres of sweet clover as green 1 manure on his farm this fall. I s C s I The Bleazard Brothers of Tal-image Tal-image are in the process of 'planning a large irrigation stor-I stor-I age reservoir to insure ample irrigation ir-rigation water for their Blue i Bench holdings. Grant Chugg, ! SCS engineer, and John Strang, farm planner, are assisting them with preliminary investigations. s C s Conservation plans are being drawn up for Alfred Giles, o? Tabiona. and for the Diamond S ranch on Red Creek. I s C s I Members of the Sowers-An-j telope Reservoir company are being contacted by Secretary W. jC. Foy in regard to the proposed Sowers Canyon dam. Preliminary Prelimin-ary cost estimates have bee i submitted to Mr. Foy by SCS technicians. s C s I SCS personnel of the Du-' Du-' chesne office are spending most 'of their time in doing field work. Anyone wishing- to con-itact con-itact them should leave a note I on the office door. (A memo j sheet is always left for that pur-'pose.) |