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Show and it is thought that Mt. Pleasant fishermen will also lend some assistance assist-ance on this project. The Gooseberry reservoir is less than an hour's drive from Fairview and should the fishimr develop as the sportsmen hope it will, I it is quite possible that Gooseberry will become the favorite haunt of the fishermen of North Sanpete. sheep early in the season. The sheepmen sheep-men and ranchers are cooperating on this project. The bridge when completed com-pleted will cost between $600 and $700. The Fish and Game club at Fair-view Fair-view is planning on .constructing a 12-foot dam across Gooseberry creek, somewhere near tTie site of the old Mammoth dam. A 12-foot dam will make a lake covering somewhere be tween 15 and 25 acres. A lake of this size on the Gooseberry creek will greatly improve conditions for the propagation of fish. Before the breaking of the Mammoth reservoir dam, the finest trout fishing in Utah was in the resrvoir and Gooseberry creek. $250 has already been pledged pledg-ed by public spirited citizens of Fair-view. Fair-view. The State Fish and Game department de-partment has promised to cooperate ! 1 I MANTI NATIONAL I FOREST NOTES -I 1- July 6 to 10 has been decided upon as the dates for holding a supervisors' supervis-ors' meeting. The supervisors of the J Jxaibab forest in Arizona, the Lemhi, Minidoka and. the Caribou forests ot Idaho, and all the supervisors of the Utah and Nevada lorests will be present. The meeting will be a practical prac-tical demonstration on the ground of j some of our problems in range man-1 agement and will be held at the Great j Basin experiment station. Four days I will be devoted to grazing work and one day to a discussion of the problems prob-lems connected with forest management, manage-ment, which has to do with the producing pro-ducing and marketing of timber. While this meeting is principally for the benefit of forest supervisors, stockmen are invited to be present if they so desire. Climatic! and Range Conditions Ranger Williams reports that on March 17 he rode up on top the mountain moun-tain between Link canyon and Clay springs. He states there was less than one-fourth of the area covered with snow and that on the ridges .where the drifts are usually from 20 to 30 feet deep, the snow is not more than six feet) deep at this time. On the north side of the Muddy creek the range is practically dry from Horse creek and east. Mr. Williams considers the outlook very poor for water on the Emery county side of the range; in fact he states that the only salvation for the farmers of that section this season is plenty of rain. A nice shower occurred thru-out thru-out that county on the night of March 19 and the recent storm probably will help matters some, Ranger Thursby is at the Great Basin experiment station sta-tion today measuring the snowfall for the month of March. The reports will not reach the office in time for this week's news letter. Mr. George D. Clyde of the department depart-ment of irrigation of the U. A. C, and - Mr. McBride from the office of the state engineer, were office visitors visit-ors on March 25. These gentlemen were looking into the records of snow I measurements for the past few years. They report that the snowfall for all parts of Utah is below normal with the exception of the high ranges in the Uinta Forest where they report the snowfall as normal. Mr. Clyde and Ranger Ollerton left for the Tieac! of Gooseberry, where they plan or making snow measurements of a considerable con-siderable part of the watershed similar sim-ilar to the work done by them lasl year. These measurements shouk q give them a fairly close check on the comparative moisture content on tha i watershed for the years 1025 am j 1926. ! ' Ranger Anderson has a crew n j mm working- on the Seely creel a .bridge in Lower Joes valley. Tin 1 bridge is badly needed for crossing |