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Show (qBL- S)AVEEL Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District News The district supervisors, county coun-ty agents, and unit conservationists conservation-ists of the Soil Conservation Service Ser-vice attended a meeting at Heb-er, Heb-er, Tuesday. This is one of ten meetings being held throughout the state to coordinate the activities ac-tivities of the district supervisors, supervis-ors, Extension Service and Soil Conservation Service. It is expected that your district dis-trict activities will be enlarged and improved as a result of these discussions. SCD Bill Morgan, Soil Conservation Conserva-tion Service engineer from Moab will spend the next few weeks in Roosevelt designing structures struc-tures for the flood program. Bill is taking Grant Chugg's place temporarily. Grant is on a short detail to' the State Office in Salt Lake City to do some special work. j SCD' I Six names have been proposed for district supervisors. Three of these men will be elected at a district election to be held some time in March. Each of these men will be contacted to determine whether or not he will let his name go on the ballot. bal-lot. SCD You farmers who have signed up with PMA for headgates or ditches can help by stopping at your Soil Conservation Service office. The location of ditches and headgates must be shown on your map. These maps are quickly and easily prepared at the office. Tracings can be made from aerial pictures more accurately accur-ately than they can out in your field. SCD Clyde Kelsey has poured some concrete on the Lake Fork No. 1 diversion dam. Clyde is hoping hop-ing for continued mild weather, so he can complete the job soon. SCD The Dry Gulch Irrigation Co. and the Soil Conservation Service Ser-vice are working out plans to clean and enlarge Lake Fork channel for about 1.000 feet above the new diversion. SCD Leslie Goodrich, your district supervisor from Bluebell, says land leveling equipment will be scarce this year. He advises you to get in touch with your contractor con-tractor now. SCD Marvin Smith, district supervisor super-visor from Vernal, ?aid that better bet-ter pasture management and the use of commercial fertilizer on these pastures is necessary to increase in-crease production. Dividing your pasture into four or more parts should increase production up to 25 per cent. SCD Red Stewart, of Vernal, js progressing rapidly with the construction of the Sunshine canal ca-nal heading. The excavation work is about completed. This construction work is partly ti-nanced ti-nanced by the Production and Marketing Administration and partly by the canal company under the flood program. The designs were prepared by the Soil Conservation Service. Mr. Stewart plans to have the structure struc-ture completed before irrigation starts in the spring. ' |