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Show -I -I- MANTI NATIONAL 1 FOREST NOTES j - Young Colt Good Bait Clayton Kofford, trapper for the Biological Survey, found a dead newborn new-born colt near the ranger pasture in Upper Joe's Valley. This he carried up into the canyon east of the station and succeeded in catching two coyotes, coy-otes, one bob-cat and a bear. The bear was caught in a heavy coyote trap by two toes and after getting in the trap climbed a tree and in some way hung itself so that it was dead when Mr. Kofford found it. Losses From Larkspur Heavy. Cattlemen report losses from larkspur lark-spur as being much heavier than last year. This is somewhat unusual unus-ual since it is during rainy weather that losses from this plant usually occur. Sheep and Cattle Do Well. Sheep and cattle have done well on the forest ranges to date. There is a possibility, however, that forage will all be: gone and that many of the sheep will have to leave leave the forest within the next three of four weeks, since our July and August rains have so far failed to materialize. material-ize. Fence Nearing Completion. The Six Mile Flat interdistrict fence is nearing completion. The fence, which is log and block, is especially es-pecially well built of large timbers and should last indefinitiely. Water Projects Proving Valuable. Mr,. nil nf mir 1 928 water devel- opment projects have been completed complet-ed and due to the low water of the springs and streams are proving of considerable benefit to the stockmen using them. Office Visitors. ' Drs. Marsh and Clawson, of the Salina Experiment station, were visitors at the Supervisor's office on August 8. They have been feeding a number of plants that were suspected sus-pected of killing sheep. The suspected sus-pected plants, however, were found to be non-poisonous. They are now making a study of the Lupine, or wild bean. Effects of Lighning. On Saturday, August 11, five head of horses were killed with lightning, near Pine Spring on the Gentry Mountain. Two or three of, these horses were well bred animals and of considerable value. On the 15th a team being used by Andrew Anderson, And-erson, of Huntington, was killed by lightning in one end of a field while a second wagon was being loaded with hay nearby. The lightning, while doing some damage to livestock, live-stock, has not. started any. fires on the Manti forest so far this season. Long Haul for Logs. The Anderson and Davidson sawmill, saw-mill, in the head of Ephrabn Canyon, Can-yon, is using trucks to haul, logs from the small scattered ' patches of timber lying near the top of the mountain within a radius .-. of ten miles of the mill. These' trucks are capable of hauling 700 feet of logs over the Sky Line Drive," one hill of which has a maximum grade of better than 15 per cent. A . good team is able to haul about 500 feet only over this grade. |