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Show PIPE TIES Pil Forester Solves Problem of Reaching Outside World During Winter's Reign. Speclnl to The Tribune. OGDEN, Dec. 6. The construction of 900 foot of thrco-fourthfl-inch pipe containing con-taining an' insula tod telephone wire Is tha unique plan which has boon carried car-ried Into mccesafnl opo ration by Supervisor Su-pervisor A. W. JonHCre of tho Manti national forest, to conquer tho elements ele-ments which, rage nt tho top of Horse-shoo Horse-shoo mountain in the Wasatch range 'during the winter months. According to Mr. Jenen. who is now at th Fourth district headquarters in this city, the lino ovor the mountain top was completed during the past season and has been in euccoesful operation. Tho famous Horaoahoe mountain, 10,500 foet altitude, is ono of the landmarks of tho lower "Wasatch rango and from its rim a view Is obtainod that would repay a stiff olimbj such a climb is necessary, howovox, since the trip can bo mndo from Epkroiin I by easy grades on horseback. Tho I dlvido to tho north of thi3 mountain, I however, has proved a decided obsta- G cle to the maintonanco of telophone I communication through the winter. Tho i wiro becomes encrusted with coats of E frost, ico and enow until its diameter fl is as great as throo inchos. Then a strong northwest wind boara down upon it, breaking wire, brackets, and if those fail to give way, even poles eight Inches In diamotor, Supervisor Jonson of the Manti forest, for-est, who is ltimself a lawyor and was for two yonrs in chargo of tho legal work of District 4, was not to ne deprived of kia say to tne poople of Orangoville, even in cold weather, and so during tho paRt summer installed across tho troublesome summit 900 foet of threo-fourth-inch pipe containing contain-ing an insulated wire. On account of t.ho severity of thunder storniB in Bummer, Bum-mer, tho air lino Ib repaired and the G underground lino disconnected for the I months of July, August and Septem- I bnr. r. Mr. Jensen, who is attending a con- ferenco at the district office, speaks I appreciatively of tho cordial eo-opera- tion on the part of the thirteen advi- I sory boards of the Manti forest in the I solution of grazing questions. B Tho thiclcly populated' Sanpete and 1 Castlo vallo3;8 depond in a vital wav I on tho Manti forest areas for water, rango nnd wood. Sanpete county ha9 g a population of 16,000. Emery county, ' 8000, and 5000 persons in the ooal g camps and 2000 in Utah, county use the 1 Manti forest. Tuub on throe-quarters I of a million acres of forest land there K aro 2000 grazing permit; 000 timber M permits, and numerous Bpeclal uses 1 fortv-oighfc In the one town of Hia- B watha, . K Vhoro so many different intoresto in- E termingle and overlap It Is but natural that some must in cases share with or givo way to othors, and Mr. Jonson praises the splendid co-onerntion of tho members of the boards, who go with him or his rangora to tho flold and upon a thorough knowledge of the conditions always bco and magnanimously magnani-mously agreo to Iho necessary arrangements, arrange-ments, that all mav ahare in the benefits. |