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Show f fc ' MANTI NATIONAL FOREST NOTES. If. If. if, i if. if, if. A meeting of the rangers of the Manti National Forest was held on District 5 at the Canyon View Ranger Rang-er tation on August 13 to 16, inclusive. inclus-ive. S. S. Stewart, of the District office, Supervisor Humphrey and Deputy De-puty Seupervisor Van Boskirk were present. A sample area was cruised and marked in the vicinity of the Larson mill in Lake Canyon. For the purpose of estimating the cost of piling and burning, and to determine deter-mine whether or not it was practicable practic-able to pile and burn on some of the areas where considerable dry timber occurs, trees were cut, trimmed and logged up and the brush burned by the rangers. Owing to favorable weather conditions, it was possible to burn without injury to standing timber tim-ber or danger from fire. The cost varied from 60c to $2 per M. feet for this work. If the timber is to be piled only and burned, the cost will be somewhat less. In the Xuture contracts con-tracts it is quite . probable that provision pro-vision for piling and 'burning on many of the areas will be required. Mr. Stewart looked over the timber operations in Huntington Canyon and continued south over the Forest, visiting vis-iting nearly all cutting operations on rii'sHrin)- 1 9. 3 snd 4. Mr. Forsling, director of the Great Basin Experiment Station, reports IV2 inches of rainfall during the afternoon af-ternoon of August 13. This storm, coming as it did in so short a period, produced considerable runoff, which filled the erosion tanks for the first time this season. Small floods oc-cured oc-cured at Ephraim and Mt. Pleasant the same day. Although little damage dam-age was reported from the floods, v considerable damage to standing grain throughout the valley was caused by the heavy wind and rain. Trespassing cattle are causing the rangers considerable extra work this season. However, if reductions are (Continued on page 8) MANTI NATIONAL FOREST NEWS NOTES. (Continued from page 1) applied in all cases for exceeding permit numbers, it is quite likely that less trouble from that source will be experienced another season. Range conditions up to the present pres-ent time on both cattle and sheep assignments are exceptionally good. At the recent rangers' meeting it would have been somewhat difficult to learn from the officers gathered there just where the best feed grows on the Ivianti Forest, since each ranger rang-er could remember only the choice areas on his district. Miss Luella Christensen, who has been connected with the Supervisor's oifice of the Manti Forest for the past fourteen years left Ephraim on August 15 to accept a position in the ojee of accounts in the District office at Ogden. Miss Christensen has practically grown up with the Manti Forest and knows all of the more than 2,000 permittees by their f:rst names. In fact, whether they cold a permit for cattle or sheep and the approximate number. In addition to this, she was weil acquainted with all branches of Forest service work. The best wishes of the entire force follow Miss Christensen to her new assignment. Miss Alta M. Coo'.ey, from the District office, has been temporarily assigned to the Manti Forest until a permanent clerk can be secured. Miss Couley has had a wide experience in Forest Service work, so things arc moving right along. It is reported that wool growers of Grand and San Juan counties have contracted their lambs for fa!! delivery de-livery at 10c per lb. Local buyers are offering from 6c to 0',ic for grass-fat steers and from 3!,ic Ij 4c for beef cows. It looks as though we will have to cat more cow 'jeef if we expect to cut down the number of bleeding cattle usir.g our summer ranges. One of the large cattle growers reports that lo add to an already difficult situation, he has branded and marked 6l per cent heifer heif-er calves so far this year. Some of the Manti rangers are weighing lambs to determine tiie most profitable time to market them. In the weighing; of August 10, Ranger Williams reports that lambs from one of his herds averaged 52 lbs. on that date. They will be weighed cve-y ten days hereafter until the close of the season. |