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Show Manti Forest News Ranger Olsen reports that Earl i Christensen, of Fairview, who has just returned from the coal mine near the head of Huntington canyon. 1 has informed him that the snow is: 54 inches deep at the Huntington' canyon coal mines and at the Forks I in Cottonwood canyon, while in Gooseberry and Flat canyon the snow ; is 72 inches deep. Next to food, wood is the most im-potant im-potant commodity in human economy. econo-my. The United States, messed originally orig-inally with a very generous portion of the finest conifer timber in the world, has now reached the point where it is necessary to spend $191,-000,000 $191,-000,000 annually for pulp wood, wood pulp and paper, imported from foreign markets. At the present time timber is being cut in the United States six times as fast as it can grow, and there is little chance to remedy this condition, due to the fact that so much of our timber lands have passed into private ownership, where but little consideration is given giv-en to a future crop of timber by the owners, who are too often interested solely in realizing on the present crop. The cattle scab situation In Emery county, according to reports, has developed de-veloped until it is now a serious menace men-ace to the industry. Dipping vats for treating infected cattle are being constructed at some of the other towns hesidesHuntington and Cleveland. Cleve-land. Hanger Howard reports the dipping of from five to six hundred cattle daily at the Huntington dipping dip-ping vat, and since all corrals must be cleaned up and disinfected, the outbreak has caused no end of trouble trou-ble to the people residing in that section. Forest Rangers Olsen and Cox gave an illustrated talk on "Forestry in Agriculture" before the Manti High school and the Manti Commercial club on March 23. On March 25 they gave the same talk to the Gunnison-Centerfield Gunnison-Centerfield High school students in the moving picture house in Gunnison. Gunni-son. Forest Superrvisor Humphrey and Ranger Anderson left Ephraim on March 31 for Orangeville over the Ephraim-Orangeville road, incidentally incident-ally to make necessary repairs to the telephone line and to . take snow measurements. They report the snow as Gl inches deep at the experiment station, with a water content of 17 inches; 7 0 inches deep at the Meadows, Mead-ows, with a water content of 19 inches; 72 inches deep at Seely Creek. They report the snow as fully ful-ly up to the average for other years. |