Melvin Brown, a mapping specialist with the Soil conservation service, conducted the Des Moines county standard soil survey over four years beginning in 1975. There were 263,000 acres to survey and Melvin Brown was in charge of it. He is holding up…
In the first photo are from left to right are Commissioners Ray Pilling, Harold Linder, Secretary Dorothy Davis, Bill Vierling, Chairman, and Commissioners Joe Beckman, Dwight Stucker and Clyde Sherer. The second photo shows Harold Linder, Secretary…