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Show Manti Forest News The feed on the forest rang is exceptionally short for this lin.e' of the year. Because of the lateness of the season, cattle and sheep are entering en-tering the fores; from ten days u two weeks earlier than the development develop-ment of the forage warrants. People of Huntington are feeling-very feeling-very much elated over the prospect of a railroad building into Huntington Hunting-ton Canyon. It is reported that Del-bert Del-bert Pape and the Freed interests are planning the construction of a modern coal camp in Huntington Canyon, where, according to all re-' ports, some of the finest coal veins found in Utah are awaiting development. develop-ment. , The District Forester's office has advised that the forest service will be unable to maintain the Ephraim- j Orangeville' road this year. It will, therefore, be up to the state and ! counties to keep the road in repair. From the Emery county side cars have already been driven as far up as the big dugway, below Olson Can- j von. ! Ranger Olsen reports that sixteen i men and five teams are now working on Brown's Trail road. The citizens! of Indianola have agreed to donate I 533.00 each, while the woolgrowers j also have promised to contribute i some on this trail. The work start- j cd May 2G and is now Hearing com- i pleted all the way up Thistle creek j to the top of the mountain. j Ranger Olsen will leave the Manti in the near future to accept a depu-I tyship on one of the Idaho forests. Ranger Olerton wil likely be trans- j ferrcd to District No. 6 to take; Mr. Olsen's place, and a new man will be appointed on District No. I). According to Ranger Howard, only a smal part of the permitted cattle: that graze on the Gentry Mountain j have entered the forest , to date. The Castledale-Orangeville cattle, or at j least the principal part of them, have! been turned on. These stock were dipped, and in order to keep treated 1 and untreated cattle apart, they j were turned on the forest as they left the vat. At Ferron and at Em-: ery only a small portion of the per-1 mitted stock has as yet been placed on the forest. A number of our lambing herds that winter in Emery and Carbon counties have been exposed to scabies. scab-ies. These sheep must all be dipped before entering the higher summer range, where they mix to some extent ex-tent with the permitted stock entering enter-ing the forest from the west. The high waters, it would seem, are now beginning to recede, and while the highest point may have been reached, there is sufficient show yet to keep the creeks booming for several weeks. , Ranger Howard reports that the Eastern Utah Fish & Game Protective Protec-tive association has effected an or-, ganization, with headquarters at Huntington. W. A. Guymon, Jr., was elected president, Ira Brinker-hoff, Brinker-hoff, vice-president, and L. W. Leonard, Leon-ard, secretary. The board of directors direc-tors is made up of representatives, one each from Hiawatha, Mohrland, Cleveland, Elmo, and two from Huntington. Hunt-ington. The association has fifty charter members and expects to add to its membership right along. Ranger Williams reports that the work on the Ferron Canyon road is progressing nicely. The men are now camped near the narrows and within with-in a few days the road will be completed com-pleted over the most difficult section sec-tion to be encountered in its entire length. Ranger Cox rode to his station in the left hand fork of Twelve Mile last Saturday and found considerably consider-ably less snow than there was on rhe same date last year. The snow j '.s exceptionally soft this season. |