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<br />Meetings of county officials with Highway Department rep~e3entatives, held
<br />according to the new Highway law which became o,er<t':;iv'3 Jal"aary J., to exchange
<br />information regarding construction and maintenance procedures, have been
<br />scheduled for Aprih and May, according to William Lamberth, Department Second'l:'y
<br />Highway Engineer.
<br />Meetings will be held at the following places, with dates and combined
<br />meetings of counties as noted, All meetings start at 9 a,m.1
<br />Denver Warehouse, April 7, Greeley Sh~ps, April 12 (Weld, Boulder, Larimer).
<br />Sterling Courthouse, April 14 (Log~n, Morgan, Sedgwick). Wray Courthouse, April
<br />16 (Phillips, Washington, Yuma)"
<br />Pueblo Shops, April 20. Alamosa Shops, April 22. Grand Junction Shops,
<br />April 27.
<br />Craig Shops, April 29. Dur~ngo Shop", May 5.
<br />County delegations will conoist of Cowmissioners and road supervisors or
<br />engineers. Dist,'ict and construction engineers and maintenance supervisors wIll
<br />represent the department of highways.
<br />The meetings are intended to give counties
<br />, care of road mileage which has come uniler their
<br />highway system.
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<br />technioal assistqnoe in taking
<br />oare by the redrawing of Colorado's
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<br />Hunters, ;~;~:~:~-~~~-;;~:;;-~~~i-~:~:;~~-;~~;-~~-:~;:;~:~~;l flood ~\
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<br />;.: prevention projeot soon to get underway on the Kiowa Creek drainage in Elbert an d "
<br />,il El Paso counties, according to the "Colorado Conservation" magazine for Maroh- "~
<br />I April. The magazine is offioial publication for the Game and Fish Department of
<br />the state.
<br />The idea of preventing floods by stopping water where it falls is desoribed
<br />in an artiole by Joseph W. Penfold, western representative of the Icaak Walton
<br />league, as holding great promise for sav~ng soil and water and improving fish,
<br />waterfowl and game habitat. The Kiowa Creek projeot is one of 50 pilot watershed' I
<br />treatment projects authorized by a $5,000,000 appropriation in the last session
<br />of the U.S. Congress. About $800,000 will be ~pent in trying to keep water &nu I
<br />topsoil from washing away in fl06ds with looal people paying at least half the oost
<br />Plug~ing and sodding of gullies, use of fills instead of bridges for highways,.
<br />oonstruot10n of farm ponds and enoouragement of good soil oonservation practices
<br />are among techniques that local farmers will adop1;'.
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<br />Plans for administrative reorganization, involving four new regional offices
<br />and deoentralization of authority have been announoed blf the game and fish
<br />department. Plans have been approved by both the legislature and the game and
<br />fish oommission, and the program will be in operation by July 1.
<br />The new field offices will be set up in Fort Collins, Pueblo, Montrose, and
<br />Glenwood Springs. The purpose of the deo~tralization is to return the game
<br />and fish program to the grass-root level, Thomas L. Kimball, game and fish
<br />direotor, said.
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<br />Colorado Projeot No. F 017-3(2), consisting of grading, stabilization,
<br />structures and plant mixed asphaltio surfaoing, 7.154 miles, on ctate Highway 8,
<br />between Limon and Hugo in Linooln County----also, Colorado Projeot No. C 19-0054-
<br />13, grading, structures, and plant mixed asphaltic surfaoing, 2.382 miles in
<br />Wray, yuma. County have been advertised. Proposals on first aooepted to Maroh 6;
<br />on second to Maroh 11. Bids to be read on Maroh lIon first; on Maroh 16, seoond.
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