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Show o)AVEEtS Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District News Dick and Ned Coltharp have started work on the final stages of reorganizing the irrigation system on their 640 acre ranch at Hayden. Ditches were completed com-pleted on about 80 acres during 1951. Ned and Dick hope to put ditches on the other 560 acres this spring with the help of engineers en-gineers from the Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service. These ditches will be 330 feet apart to permit better and more efficient use of irrigation water. Dick and Ned are following a farm plan which was devel-oped devel-oped by them with the help of , the Unitah Basin Soil Conservation Conser-vation District. In addition to the ditches, the plan calls for the use of phosphate fertilizer on every acre, draining th water-logged areas, planting im proved pasture mixtures on land which can be plowed and the construction of division fences so that rotation grazing of cattle can be established. SCD Floyd Case, president of the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company, reports that Clyde Kelsey is nearing completion of the Lake Fork diversion near Altonah. Steel is in place and farms are ready to be set in place. More than 150 farmers will be helped by the completion of the structure. struc-ture. SCD Darrell Lambert has started the construction of two stock ponds on his rangeland west of Roosevelt. Darrell is building these ponds so the livestock can use the range grasses more uniformly uni-formly and to prevent over use of the range near water , holes. SCD Marvin Smith, president of the Ashley Upper Canal Company, Com-pany, reports that bids will be '. let on the canal heading on ', Ashley Creek in the near future. fu-ture. The Soil Conservation Service Ser-vice prepared a design for the heading more than a year ago. They hope to complete construction construc-tion before high water this spring. The River Irrigation Company in lower Ashley Valley has asked the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District and PMA for help in the design and construction con-struction of an overflow for ' their canal. The overflow drops more than 30 feet in returning to Ashley Creek, according to Arlie Murray, president of the company. |