| Show pa POWELL W LL P POWWOW i august 12 1030 1930 inspections assistant regional F forester or estor ernest winkler spent july 25 5 ag and 27 on the powell ills ilia time was wag given mainly to the examination ot of lands to lo be considered in connection with the preparation of the open public domain reports that are duo la in the regional office september 1 while here mr winkler R H n hill inspector of grazing from the washington office arnald R standing from the regional office supervisor olson and ranger hurst ot of the dixie supervisor riddle and clerk baker of the powell spent one day sunday july 27 looking over the fast east fork cattle division all agreed that a slow and gradual change tor for the better Is taking place on tho the range co vreed floods the old saying that one extreme follows another has been proven true to some extent at least the drousth that has continued over a period of six or seven years in this locality terminated about tour four weeks ago when it began to rain and wo have had rain in some part of 0 this neck or of tho the woods every day since in fact it has rained so much that we very fellows who were howling for a lot of it are beginning to wish it would stop farmers are sustaining heavy losses from hay spoiling in tho the fields bridges have been washed out canals broken and roads damaged on the afternoon of august 4 one end of tho the worst floods in the history of pan gultch camo came out of castro canyon the damage to crops canals bridges etc has been roughly estimated at from this flood alone even though losses run into considerable money everyone Is agreed that it has been the salvation of this part of the state sheep and cattle are getting tat fat and range conditions generally are good letter lette of appreciation A letter has just been received from forest supervisor C E favre of the wyoming national forest in which he expresses his appreciation tor for the services rendered them by ranger L D heywood during his detail to the wyoming forest during may and wyoming forest on insect control work ranger heywood spent about six weeks during may and june on the wyoming trespass on august 5 ranger wilford dentley bentley delivered to the at antimony seven head of horses found in trespass near lake philo ranger district no ND 1 I through the persistent efforts of ranger bentley the number of horses ranging in that vicinity a few years ago has been practically disposed of however it la Is gur surprising to know how soon a large number of such animals accumulate in the absence of a determination to keep them down for this reason all concerned ranger districts 1 2 and 3 should te be ready at any and all times to use the diggers when the ho need tor for doing so is evident new henry henry visited ranger heywoods Hey woods home recently and asked it he would be allowed to stay after a prolonged discussion as to rates etc heywood agreed to keep him its a four door beauty and the family items quite proud of it |
