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Show used as a text book in many of the forestry schools throughout the country, coun-try, and since the book has a wealth of general information, every stockman stock-man should keep one in camp for the use of his employees. Ranger Cox reports that the improvement im-provement work on the Manti Canyon Can-yon driveway will likely be completed complet-ed before the end of June. Immediately Imme-diately after July 1 funds will be available for the clearing of brush out of the. Horseshoe driveway. Monday, June 25, was Canyon Road Day at Spring City. No report re-port as to the number of men taking part has as yet been received at the Supervisor's office. Mr. Forsling is asking for bids for the construction of a pasture fence south of the Alpine Station. The pasure will be used in connection with grazing experiments, and will contain something like ninety acres. MANTI NATIONAL FOREST NOTES. Deputy Supervisor Van Boskirk ' reports from Clear Creek that 10,-j 000 Eastern Brook trout fingerlings were planted in Nuck Woodard Creek on June 19. The Utah Fuel com-' pany furnished the men and trans-1 portation from Clear Creek to the point on the stream where the fish were turned loose. Forty cans ' of Rainbow trout fingerlings have been planted in Indian Creek in Upper Joe's Valley during the past few days. About twenty-five outfits are now engaged in timber work in the vicinity vicin-ity of Clear Creek, and the demand for mine props and saw-timber is quite brisk. I During the past week the weather j has been exceptionaly cold. On ; Wednesday and Thursday heavy . blizzards occured over the higher : ranges, freezing the elders and; other tender forage. The timbered side hills at the higher levations are ' full of snow and the forage is very backward, even on the sunny slopes. ; Sheep will not enter the Forest until the first day of July. C. L. Forsling, director of the Great Basin Experiment Station re- oorts having seen thirteen elk in one ' bunch in the head of Manti Canyon : one day last week. All the rangers report deer to be fairly numerous this season. Bear have been seen at a number of points throughout the Forest. It would seem that the j new law, which allows the hunting ; f bear during the period September j 1 to October 31, is not generally j understood. However, bear are yet j too scarce for us to expect many cases of violating the game laws so I far as these animals are concerned. The Ephraim-Orangeville road has j been dragged and put in shape all the way except a section of approxi- j mately three miles between Reek's I Creek and the switchback above i Knor's Dugway. I F. S. Baker, in charge of Public Relations, District office, is visiting at the Great Basin Experiment Station Sta-tion at the present time. He expects to go over Public Relations work in the Sueprvisor's office before return-1 ing to Ogdon. Copies of Dr. Sampson's new publication. pub-lication. "Range and Fasture Management," Man-agement," have been received at the Supervisor's office during the past ' week. This book will no doubt be |