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Show Fork from Manti. This will give Manti people a chance to get into their canyon from the upper side. Ranger Williams reports the Perron Per-ron Canyon road completed to the top of the dugway above the narrows. From this point on the work will be comparatively easy and the roar! should soon be finished to the Perron Per-ron reservoir, where a great many people spend their summer vacations. Lamb buyers are still active in contracting lambs for fall delivery. Dr. Frank A. Waugh, Professor of Landscape Engineering at. the Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts Agricultural college, Amherst. Am-herst. Mass., has been appointed recreation re-creation engineer in the Forest service. ser-vice. Dr. Waugh, a noted author and one of the leading architects in this country, will spend the summer formulating for-mulating plans for the development of public camp grounds and summer home sites in the National Forests of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and other western states. This study is a part of the established p'an of the Forest service toward providing adequate camp and sanitation facilities facili-ties for the five and one-half million mil-lion people who yearly seek rest, health and enjoyment in our National Forests. MANTI NATIONAL . FOREST NOTES. With light showers occurring here and there over the Forest, the danger dan-ger fiom fire is somewhat reduced. However, a few hot' days are all that is necessary to again increase the danger to the maximum. Forest of-ficers of-ficers will have to keep a sharp lookout look-out for fires until more rain reaches us, and the public should cooperate with them as fully as possible by using us-ing utmost care with fire, both within and adjacent to the forests. D. A. Shoemaker, of the Ogden office, spent the 24th in the Supervisor's Super-visor's office going over our range-appraisals range-appraisals report, covering the cattle units. Mr. Shoemaker was not scheduled to visit Manti but dropped in on his way to Richfield, where he expects to spend some time with the reconnoissance crew working there. A doe and two last year's fawns have been running in the fields north and west of Mt. Pleasant for some time. On July 15 some boys with dogs got after one of these young deer and drove it toward town. After Af-ter running it around considerably, the deer jumped over a fence near Ranger Ollerton's and injured itself Nto such an extent that the local game warden, who was notified of the affair, af-fair, decided it could not recover, so he dressed it and shipped it to Salt Lake. Some of the neighbors jokingly jok-ingly said that the deer was hunting the ranger, to which Mrs. Ollerton replied: "Yes. the deer knew the one place where it could secure protection, protec-tion, but unfortunately, in its hurry to reach that place, it broke its neck." Ranger Cox is busy installing a water system at the Mount Baldy Ranger Station. The water is being piped approximately 1500 feet. This I project, when completed, will save I the ranger a great many steps each j day. j Ranger Anderson advises that the i Uppei'jJoc's Valley road is in good I shape for auto travel up as far as the old reservoir. The North Creek road has been completed from Mt. Pleasant to the Huntington reservoir. The Larson brothers did most of the work, the Forest service spending approximately approximate-ly $100 on the project. It is reported that from 50 to 100 loads of coal are daily coming over the Fairview road from the coal mines in the head of Huntington Canyon. This coal is going into Sanpete and Juab counties.. Ranger Thursby has completed approximately ap-proximately four miles of the road en the top of the mountain along the Sky Line drive. Beginning July 31, work will be resumed, and by August Aug-ust 10 the road should be ready foi'j car travel from the Eph raim-Orangc-) ville road south to connect with Hit) saw mill road leading into Duck ' |