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Show Dixie Forest Camps Heavily Used During Holiday Period Dixie National Forest campgrounds camp-grounds were again filled to capacity ca-pacity in many instances over the 24th week end, according to Leland D. Heywood, assistant supervisor. su-pervisor. The Panguitch Lake campground camp-ground was heavily used with Imany house trailers in evidence. Seventy-six boats were counted on the lake at one time during the day. Car licenses from California, Cali-fornia, Maryland, Idaho, Nevada, Neva-da, Illinois and Missouri were seen in the campground during the day, according to Mr. Heywood. Hey-wood. Nearly every state in the Union is represented at this choice fishing spot at some time during the season. The new water system at Duck Creek camp ground was serving the needs of the large number of campers and picnickers though untimely rains were causing caus-ing many to pack up and seek shelter (luring the afternoon of the 24th. This camp ground is filled to capacity by 4 11 groups from all southwestern Utah counties coun-ties this week end. Rains Scatter Campers -1 At Navajo Lake the more ruf-ged ruf-ged campers were stringing canvas can-vas shelters under which to eat picnic lunch but the persistent rain caused many of these pleasure plea-sure seekers to go home disappointed. disap-pointed. The Cedar Breaks Council of the Boy Scouts annual encampment encamp-ment is under way at the new Boy Scout camp at Navajo Lake. This camp now being developed by the scouts is planned to be one of the best Boy Scout camps in the west, Mr. Heywood said. The Forest Service wishes to express thanks to the public for the good care it gives to these campground developments, many of which are nearly 20 years old. Without this care by the users these campgrounds would long ago have deteriorated to a useless use-less condition. Operation, maintenance and development of the public recreation recrea-tion resources are not only for the convenience of the visitors, but are to encourage concentration concentra-tion of use to better care for sanitation, sani-tation, prevent the escape of camp fire, and provide sanitary drinking water for the public safety. |