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Show ! I MANTI NATIONAL j I FOREST NOTES -I j The engineers of the Utah Construction Con-struction Co. are camped in Gooseberry, Goose-berry, where they are making a survey of the water sheds and canals leading into the proposed Gooseberry reservoir project. On November 30th they reported 30 inches of snow on the level. On the 26th of November the Fair-view Fair-view Coal Mine officials had the snow-dragged snow-dragged from the road from the head of Cottonwood Canyon to the Coal Mine. There was about a foot of hard snow on the ground at that time and the ground underneath had not frozen at all. Ranger Thursby plans on attending the meetings of the Society of American Am-erican Foresters, which will be held at San Francisco, December 15 to 19 inclusive. He plans on leaving Eph-raim, Eph-raim, for California, about December 9th. Supervisor Humphrey, S. S. Van Boskirk, and Rangers Cox and Oller-ton Oller-ton left for Huntington Canyon, via Salina Canyon, Thursday, December 1, 1927. They will be joined there by Rangers Williams, Anderson and Thomas. They plan on spending several days cruising- and estimating timber in South Hughes Canyon and adjacent areas. Ranger Thursby made a trip to the top of the mountain, east of Ephraim, on November 30th, for the purpose of measuring the depth of the snow and water content, as well as to take readings of the maximum and minimum mini-mum temperatures for the month. He reports, 3.57 inches of water, with 17 ! inches of snow on the ground, maxi-! maxi-! mum temperature of plus 56 deg. and I minimum temperature of plus 4 deg. at the Great Basin Experiment station. sta-tion. At the Alpine sub-station was found 26 inches of snow with a water content of 6 inches; the minimum mini-mum thermometer recorded 1 degree above zero. At the Oak Station, near Wire Grass Flat, was a cover of 4 inches of snow on the ground and precipitation for the month of Nov- ember was 2.17 inches. Temperature readings were as follows: Maximum, plus 63 degrees; minimum, zero. The snow is fairly well packed for this time of the year. From the Bluebell Flat to the top of the mountain it is drifted very well. Last week an applicant called at the Supervisor's office and made inquiry in-quiry concerning the purchase of a considerable number of Christmas trees. Arrangements were made to I send a man with him into Gooseberry j to look the situation over. When he found that the snow was from 20 to ! 30 inches deep he called the. trip off, j deciding, perhaps, that it would be easier and more comfortable to get ; his Christmas trees in California or ! Old Mexico, where they have no snow to.feontend-w-ith. . 1 :' ;' '. Lorenzo Hammond, . formerly a ranger on the Cache Forest, was an office caller on November 29th. Mr. j Hammond worked on the Cache Forest, For-est, in Idaho, at the time Supervisor Humphrey was deputy at Logan. |