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Show NO RESERVE WANTED. Citizens Express Themselves as Opposed Op-posed to Forest Reserve on Pine Valley Mountain. DlxloAurocate.l At the close of afternoon services last Sunday the male portion of the congregation con-gregation was requested in remain and consider the propriety of favoring the reservation of the Vine Valley Mountain Moun-tain as a water shed. I'res. E. II. Snow who wan in communication with Senator Sena-tor Smoot in relation to the matter, explained ex-plained that he had been asked whether I the 'people of this county desired to have llhe government make what is known he' had at that time replied that ho did not know. That it hud beem his pur-pose pur-pose to ascertain tliesenso of the peophj of the entire county on tho matter when they assembled here a short timo hence at quarterly conference, but that he was just in, receipt of another Jotter from .Senator tfmoot, urging an immediate immed-iate roply, bo that an earlier eonsidera-tion eonsidera-tion of the question had become necessary, neces-sary, lip. Isaac C. Mnefnrlune, who was for a number of years a member of the State Hoard of Land Commissioners, being present, wiir asked to throw what light ho could on tho matter. He stated that should the IMne Valley mountain be betnsidc nsa forest reserve, the people would be debarred from cutting cut-ting or removing any poles or saw timber tim-ber from the reservation. And that there would bo other restrictions placed on them that might provo very inconvenient whereailu thiscase hesaw no benefits to bo derived from the reserving re-serving of this territory, as It had never been a range for sheep. After some little discussion Pres. D. Cannon moved that it be tho sense of the meeting that tho people of Washington Wash-ington county did not caro to have the reservation. Tho motion received half a dozen seconds and carried unanimously |