Show RESTRICTIONS ON GRAZING LAND It Is Claimed That Consider Considerable Considerable able Damage Has Been Done in ManU Manti Forest apet to The Tb l lIean Ephraim Dee Dec upon ed dance which h has been mid before the cretal of agriculture of damage mace to agricultural and oth other Inte through too heavy grazing on certain In watersheds In the ManU forest I In Utah Secretary WilSon has redU reduced fl I the aMOunt of t k which will be al allowed 1 lowed to geese Oft on th this lor forest next nert yr year to I e h head of nr cattle and Antl ho horses and 15 head hd or of sheep ml I a reduction of M In the number or of cattle and horses and Z 27 j In the number of sheep hp There Then boA been great apprehension among mong the farmers farmr and townspeople who II live alone Ione the streams red fed from these the watershed waleed I lest I should seriously their inter interest est TIt The raue wa wan badly overcrowded ed 1 and a abused 1 with the results that the natural covering of was wa largely largel deet destroyed the nil was and conditions favorable to rapid ero slon were created r The Tho high slope be bep p to gully tIO so that when thE hea rainstorms broke upon the mountains the canyons poured down wat water upon Ute the towns And farms With these flood streams were ere cr car nod down heavy boul boulders en logs nd driftwood Not only was standing grain washed down and fields covered with pike or of gravel and other debris but streets and anel 1 lawns were re overflowed with Ith water which on It Its left behind It a thick layer of sediment Water Wat supplies ppl for domestic use were contaminated from the tho p presence nf o tock stock on the watersheds lUll am well as from the soft eoll washed down The towns of Ephraim alt Hu Ora I F n mud and all were wen damaged and no It Itis I is III estimated that MenU lanU Ire to the extent of front from 1 to Last spring Chief Forester Graves visited ted Ephraim and AAd was by bythe the of the condItIon on the lanU forest The prohibitions prohibition of grazing In ManU Manti canyon eanon In illS had hael apparently contributed to Ute the great of damage by to the tho rib city of ManU Manti it was a found that In parts part of the forest surface conditions conditio are re tr far from rom satisfactory t and that some are arena have hav reached a point at which erosion rolon will become more ore and nd more serious rlou It If the vegetation I is not given a chance to re retura return turn tura Th The experience x rIen In ManU Mantl canyon canon Is believed to Indicate that the proper re ft deletion ol of grazing will diminish the volume of 1 flood waters r reduce uce the an anal 1 property boo sad add to Ute the gen n oral enl or of Ute the country It has hall keen decided to restrict the grasing g upon the a ares surround lag Ine the headwaters of tt various streams by setting amid a strip ap approximately proximately two mn miles In width from which stock Mock will be ed except for limited periods period In order r to take th this st step p It hu has been necessary I to reduce th the total number ot of stock k grazed upon the forest and while reduction will en tan tall some ome and Incon to tn a number of stock grow en 18 its Ita general result L I expected to bf be or elf great benefit to th the |