Show FOREST SERVICE TO TAKE TAKEI I CHARGE CIRG OF oi WATER SHED l j I City to Complete Contract Long Held 1 Up Government Better Able to Control It is if probable W that V the cit Ott A will Rill mill at I once complete comp t the he contract with the tAe Unit United United ed States by b which the 1 watershed belonging to Salt Lake will be beI I i under the care lare of th the forest service This 1 contract was Vas drawn a long time ago and 1 w WU as placed In the hands bands of the city cUy eni en n ni i i ginter Its completion was delayed dela ed by byI i I some technicalities Now ow the forest re reserve reserve serve people are anxious to take over oer I II the watershed waterbed and it will probably be I I handed over to them th m without further delay de delay lay i T CI jl or rd received a aMter aletter letter from Robert R Reynolds acting I II forest supervisor stating statin that on taking I charge of or the tIt office eUke he had bd found this uncompleted contract providing for the transfer to the service of ot the control of oC all an city lands within the general out outlines outlines outlines lines of the Wasatch national forest for purposes of tiN fir tire protection and eventual reforestation The contract he says sas has hasmet hasmet met mM with the approval of ot the officials at Washington and lacks only ratification on onby b by th the city ell Gifford Pinchot head of the service on his hie trip to Utah recent recently I ly b urged that this be obtained The present broken boundaries of ot the th thI I Salt Lake division of the forest Mr Ir Iri i Reynolds says M are Inconvenient and it 1 would be better for both the city and the service to handle the whole as a aI ai I unit City Cit En er L C Kelsey says nys that the contract had bad been Men In the tho hands of oC ofA oCI ofA I A F 1 Doremus assistant tant engineer and had be been n referred le d back bade for some minor changes It Is te thought by b him to be emi em eminently emlI neatly to the advantage advant e of the city as tb tile the js is sin in a much better po position I wt Its Us larger cope cepe and aut anther Gr t 11 n in tr j har arfi ih th V 1 T r riK rk o ot of fire tir t n am and take rake ae a e of r th hI watershed r f |