Show POWELL POWWOW sickness tho the supervisor spent tho the first week of tho the now new year 1928 1028 it at lits hla homo home with tho the lagrippe wo we are arc hoping that this in ili no way indicates lie he Is to spond spend tho the year in such a n manner association meetings tho the dark valley Gra graders grazers Gr azora association hold held their annual meeting nt at Tc asdale on oil january 11 at tho the meet ing the association voted an assessment ot of 15 cents per liend of cattle tor for hiring a herder luring during the month of juno june it was also voted that till all bulls bo be turned into tho the association and tho permit tees owning no bulls buy direct from the association bull service at the rate of fifty cents per head of breeding cattle on oil Do december coniber ag the north slope glazers grazers Gra association hold their annual meeting at teasdale they also alao voted to have the association handle all bulls bulla in the same way as the dark valley association and in addition voted that taint only registered or somo some certified beet beef typos types of bulls be eligible for the range langor heywood and junior ranger examiner A L taylor attended the annual meeting ot of tho the east fork grazers glazers Gra association hold nt at tropic december 26 the forest service was waa well represented it at the annual meeting of the hatch and Hills hillsdale dalo grazers glazers Gra association held in hatch on the afternoon of january Jani iAry 26 that a good meeting was had Is evidenced by the fact that tho the association voted to postpone tho the may 15 opening date for fifty three head of cattle to june 1 tho the date the balance of tho the cattle represented b by y tho the association enter tile the forest annual statistical report the supervisors annual animal statistical report recently submitted to the district forester shows that there was removed from the rowell national forest during 1927 feet of timber freo free of charge by users timber surveys covered 1748 acres of land at a cost of grazing permits were issued allowing per to graze head of cattle and horses and permit tees to graze head of sheep during 1927 in addition owners grazed on the forest head of cattle and horses free at the close of the year december 31 thero there were in effect spec special lal use permits of of this number eighteen are charge while tho the remaining carry no charge fourteen lays days of annual leave february 6 to 21 inclusive have been granted the supervisor during tho the leave period ho he expects to visit relatives and friends in california weather extremely cold weather was experienced perien perlen ced throughout this locality from about january 10 to 25 for the past week however it has been pretty much like spring reports indicate that the depth of 0 snow in the mountains la Is considerably below normal farmers and stockmen stoc kmen are beginning to predict a bad year for 1928 there Is time yet however to receive a lot of precipitation and we are hoping it cornea comes |