Show COUNTY ASKS THAT CAMPS BE USED TO CONTROL EROSION MASS MEETING MEL ring ADOPTS resolutions ASKING GOVERN MENT TO ERADICATE DOGS IN EROSION CONTROL I 1 on a call by the county commis I 1 boners sio ners a mass meeting of the people I 1 of the county was held in monticello thursday last for the purpose of adopting resolutions setting forth to I 1 the administrators of the taylor grazing act the utility of using the in erosion control heber frost chairman of the board of county commissioners called ailed the meeting to t order and geo ceo 1 M I palmer was made secretary mr frost explained the objects of the meeting atter after which a general discussion of the best method of om em hoying the for effect effective ve arcon control i took place atter after discussion the following committee was named to draw up a letter of becom recommendations mend aaion s herbert red shaw haw lockerby paul alack geo A hurst B F lyman blanding frank holls chas A burr goa go W dalton I 1 eland W F di dd ln la sal marion aarion hr i bluff A letter was draff drafted ed and forward lod to washington on friday s wail which asked in view of the erosion erosion control program about to be put in into operation that at least two man camps be e established in san juan county to carry on the work attention was called to the tact fact that san sail juan county comprises comprise orl e tenth of the entire state of utah and contains four times time the grazing area of public land than any other county in the state the county covers them the entire southeastern corner of the state tag form of 1 k miles from the north to tile sol boundary and a hundred and twenty miles from east to west along the south boundary it I 1 contonis nis an area at 0 acres 4 acres ot of which idich Ii ich are contained in i ahe e public do jiin aln rid nd of cf which the greater por ion will always be public domain on ot of physical conditions the rai nape of this area is discharged into the Col colorado crado and san juan rivers through practically all dry except dorir flood season it was hupf puffed that one camp be established in the south middle section of the county and one in the north middle section and that hat the matter of prairie dor dog extermination be considered in the plan of py pr sion rion control it was tad that a far reach int beram TOz n ram of flood and erosion control b be c set with the ahr view of to silt sl it flow through the build in ot of reservoirs of vardine nir size be inning pt the heads of 0 water courses on the high plateau lands land with smaller reservoirs which wil will 1 serve the double purpose of if sto stomping ston ping loring eros ero i ion and at the same time create water sunn Runn lles lies on the is isolated isso soc see arno of the ran lre with ath layer aber cres inn n the lower levels that will in fu 1111 cirp 0 anake for and libation liza tion ot of the ane lands below them |