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Show visor Van Boskirk and Ranger Nielsen. Niel-sen. Ranger Thursby is completing arrangements ar-rangements for tagging the Eph-laim Eph-laim cattle before they enter the Forest. This week, April 22 to 28 is Forest Protection Week. Here in the inter-mountain inter-mountain region but little attention is paid to this question, however, it is of vital i npoiance to the people of the United States. When we rcc alize that the United States started out with something like 822,000,000 acres of virgin forests at the time of its settlement, that of that amount we now have left only 138,000,000 acres and most of this timber in the northwest, we begin to wonder where our wood products are to come from in the future. It is true that a considerable con-siderable portion of our original for- i est area has been cleared and made into prosperous farms. Where this has been done and the lands placed to higher use there is no loss. It is the burned forest areas on which no leproduction is left and upon which nothing is produced, or only a small part of what the lands arc capable of producing, to which objection is viade. The people of the United States have been somewhat slow to realize just what Fe-rest Protection means and it is quite probable that they will not fully appreciate the timber shottagc until especially high prices for lumber and timber brings home to them the situation. It is true that many of the fires which consume our forest products can not be prevented, however, .something .some-thing like 'JO per cent of the annual loss from forest fires is due to human hum-an agencies, not maliciousness, for incendiaiy fires amount to only 12 per cent of the total; it is rather to carelessness that our fires are attributable. attri-butable. Each year something like 10.000 fires sweep through our forests for-ests destroying timber as well as promise of new forest crops. More than 2,000.000.000 feet of timber goes up in smoke each year. An average of 70 people lose their lives and a much larger number their homes through that source. For this reason the attention of the public pub-lic is continually being calhd to the seriousness of the situation. Let us all remember that National Forests are the source of the streams which supply the domestic and irrigation irri-gation water. The great menace to our Forests is fire which destroys tiie timber, drys up the streams, drives away wild life and leaves in its wake ruin and desolation, so, do not allow a blaze from your match to , start a blaze in the Forest. , j ! MANTI NATIONAL ' :- ' ; FOREST NOTES. if. if. if. if. 'f- i Ephraim Peterson and James P.as-j P.as-j mussen, two of our Ephraim ca'tle feeders, shipped four cars of cattle to Ogden last week. Their fat cows ' brought $4.75 to $5.00 while the ; steeis brought SoVlO. The cattle shtank six per cent between Ephraim 1 and Ogden, ordinarily buyers shrink ! cattle 4 -per cent at the time of load-j load-j irg, so that shrinkage between Eph-jiaim Eph-jiaim and Ogden really amounted to ' about 2 per cent over and above the j usual shrinkage allowed at the time stck are sold from the feed lots. -Supervisor Humphrey and Ranger Thursby have returned from the : boundary survey work on the north end of the Forest, their places hav-I hav-I ing been taken by Deputy Super- |