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Show Hanksville News By Barbara Ekker Fred Lindsey of the ' Wildlife Resburces in Logan, assisted by Arnold Button of Escalante, plan to begin a project in the Henry Mountains this week. They hope to trap mountain lions around the Cat Ranch area and put transmitters on them in order to study their traveling habits on the mountain during the winter. win-ter. They hope to have sufficient snow to make the captures this week. These transmitter equipped equip-ped cats will be trailed by backpackers who will keep track of their killing of deer and the number of young they are feeding. Reports were coming over the TV and radio Monday about the Dirty Devil flooding homes in Cainsville and Hanksville. I hope whoever sent that report in (and it was picked up by United Press International) realizes that the Dirty Devil River doesn't begin until after the Fremont and the Muddy Rivers join northeast north-east of town, therefore, making flooding of homes in Cainsville (30 miles West) impossible. Friends and relatives called Hanksville Sunday and Monday to check on family members. The Fremont Fre-mont did have a flood in it but it's never threatened the communities. A pole along the river which holds the Telephone lines of Mountain Bell washed loose and tipped over causing the community to be out of service from 8 p.m., Saturday night to 5 p.m. Sunday. Repairs were made by Art Bros, of Beehive Telephone and Mr. Olsen from Mt. Bell in Price. But in no way was Hanksville or Cainsville Cains-ville flooded and this erroneous report should have been checked out before becoming nationwide nation-wide news. Concerned callers in Indiana and California said the report was front page news in their papers. Snow began falling early ear-ly Tuesday morning and reached a depth of two inches by noon. ' |