Show on Z NOTES ROM ole ear LA SAL FOREST REST I 1 1 contributed by forest office I 1 storm clouds gather and hr eaten but never a shower be e forage wh which ich made good NIT h from the winters mois are and warm spring weather i now DOW generally drying up and find S timing especially is this true A the south division on the D mountains many springs spring aich h usually flow throughout kew e liole year are now dry we wl that the st ock men eh of the south th are crossing their cattle etli musk ox to obtain a type abich ich will be immune from mosquito bites locally a ss with the hereford and nel ea would seem proper chese ese sahara like ranges forest guard scotty states that a brown bear paid him a visit at the la sal mger station last wednesday afternoon scotty regrets that jin was not a ferocious stock her as he coveted the skin for i trophy young bruin seemed to 10 realize his legal limits and stained nta ined good behavior thus ming scotty no justification to M P down the old musket the ar caused a heap of excite t among the saddle horses OA scotty says it rave gave turn hini a peat treat thell AI assistant stant district forester spent the last two eels giving the south divi ill A 8 general beener inspection with lal attention to range con ma timber sales and trail ork work ranger hunt has finished up the work on the Wing Natural bridges road t rom allan alla n ca canyon nyon to figalia Ki galia 1 is now low possible for autos to lm tet from icom blanding to the elk 4 stains the road cannot considered a boulevard how afi foists te report that t nc no difficulty aulty is encountered in mak vb Z the trip cars heat ui up nen climbing the moun tair lad stretches make trav tray iff guedon on page eight NEWS NOTES risom OVER LA SAL continued from first pace page els ell 10 low speed cops arc are not needed I 1 superintendent mckeen of the indian agency the people of blanding cind and the commis I 1 loners of san juan county arc are each giving 1000 toward the maintenance and construction 1 I 1 of the blanding natural bridges e road it is planned to spend 1000 reducing some of the grades grade q between bland blanding ing and allan cannon the ute indian reber res aaion the other 2 2000 0 0 will be used med to construct a road from kikaha to the bridges Br idze I 1 J B harris harri zeke johnson morley black and ind walfer C lyman all veteran road last week laid out the new road work and estimated that a fairly good road for auto grael could be built at a arv varv reao reasonable cost this road means a good deal to this section of the country count irv and the leovie of blanding are especial 1 iv emree tic in pushing it to completion H M shank from the ogden office who is in charge of maps and surveys was with us from may IS 18 to june 2 establishing control points on the forest and collecting data for the compilation of a new map of the forest the rangers during the present field season will complete the work and by fall wie VM expect to have a good up to date map of the whole forest ranger quigley states that all ail herds lambing on his district are getting excellent iamb lam crops some herds going ping as high as per cent local wool growers aho ho did lid not contract their clips clip sare are now comi consigning gning it and receiving an advance advance of of per pound cattlemen are all bus these days dais de delivering liering their steers which were nere contracted during the winter minter the prices received for ear lings range from 29 to 31 per head while tn twos 09 bring 15 the stockmen state that the cattle are in ery good condition considering the lack of winter feed and the dry spring pring while spring found most of the cattle in poor shape N e ct t losses are reported to have been not more than S C smith of logan utah arm arri ed ala may 4 to take ov on er the position of ranger on the monticello division mr smith is a graduate of the utah agriculture college majoring in range management and animal hus banan ranger smith is very much taken up NN with ith the country tr and emijo enjoys s the vork mork immensely allan J germaine of or ogden took up the duties of assistant forest ranger on may 1 he will help ranger hunt in the administration of district 4 he is stationed at grayson and is making ma king a very good addition to ou our r ranger force A party of monticello people passed through moab thursday en route to zion national national park where they will spend a two weeks vacation included in the party were mr air and mrs airs jay redd mr air and mrs H L hansen mrs airs zola nielsen mrs maude A palmer and miss elsie edwards |