Minutes of meeting at City Hall council chambers regarding the best ways to control flooding in Southern Nevada, March 7, 1950

MEETING OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MOAPA AND VIRGIN VALLEYS SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTS, P.m.A. CCMMITTEES, AND GRAZING DISTRICT NO. 5 MEMBERSHIP, IRRIGATIONI COMPANIES, WITH REPRSENTATIVES OF THE US. FOREST SERVICE ASSIGNED TO CONSERVATION AND FLOOD CONTROL SURVEYS OF THE VIRGIN RIVER WATERSHED AND A SPECIAL FIELD REPRESENTATIVE OF CHARLES A. BRANNAN, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, FOR THE SOUTHWEST. March 7, 1950 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Council Chambers, City Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada The meeting was called to order by J. H. Wittwer, County Agent, and all in attendance were introduced. Mr. Wittwer introduced Mr. H. Loben stein of the U. S. Forest Service. Attendees: Mr. Warren Murphy, Field Representative for the Secretary of Agriculture; Mr. Vince Toomey, survey party leader for this Virgin River survey; Slim Hansen, head of Watershed Surveys for the National Board; Mr. Ferron Bunker; Mrs. Hammond; Mrs. Warren; Mr. Jim Wadsworth; Mr. Magleby; Mr. Clarence Lewis; Mr. Turner; John Leavitt; George Hardman; Mr. Max Hafen; Roy Tobler, Mr. Adams; Mr. Pelham; Mr. Thorpe, Soil Conservation Service of Albuquerque; Mr. Sewell; Mr. Hollinger; Mr. Prunty; Locations: Virgin River Watershed, Meadow Valley Wash, Muddy Basin, Ogden, Lake Mead, Columbia Basin, Ursine Wash, Eagle Valley, Rose Valley, Panaca, Caliente, Pine, Mathews, Elgin, Moapa Soil Conservation Service, P.M.A., Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Forest Service, Extension Service, Department of Agriculture, Congress, flash storms, livestock, grazing, Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, National Parks Service Act of 1936-1938, flood control, watershed, soil conservation, dams, legislation, diversion channel, vegetative coverage, surface land surveys, sedimentation study,