Show manti national forest fores hews WS colonel W D I 1 Grai grailey loy chief for ostor ester of tho the united states and mr it U II 11 the district forester to in chargo charge of district 4 spent july 1 i 2 3 nud and 4 in looking over tho the manti forest ranges inspecting somo ot of our timber operations meeting with the local Offic 01 and getting an insight into tho the work baing dono done in this section when the trip was first pin planned nned we expected thorn them 0 to spend four days with ua us later 0 we re calved a memorandum from the district forester stating that it was planned to look over the manti forest bogl nning at indianola Ind lanola and ondina the trip at tho the inter in gunnison Gunn leon valley owing to the absence of supervisor Mat mattsson from tho office at it was impossible to rearrange our schedule and as a result the trip was wag some what strenuous the thistle canyon road eph balm orangeville road manti mantl can yon anil and twelve milo canyon road wiro all loorom over by the visiting officials and a delightful trip was had by all the first cars care to cross the moun tain over tho the ephraim Orang orangeville eville road wont over on juno june 26 2 because of the heavy bink of enow allow at the top it was possible for care goler et to gel get over tho enow snow quite quit easily but tho the enow snow banks on ahr east side were difficult to cross cros I 1 for going at mhd present time there thoro Is some little travel each way and in a taw few days it Is to expected that there will ho be dozens of care cars goina over tho the road dally daily stockmen Stoc kinon are of tho opinion that tho the forage was not pot quite so far nd ad this tills season ns an it was on july 1 I 1921 however owing to the july trust frost a year ago thoro there Is perhaps more fe fed 4 over all the rangel range I 1 now low july 10 than there was on tho the same dato date last year tho the showers which occurred oh oha june juno 28 oak cup the forest range in lit good a barord sha pond temporarily at nta toast put an end to the danger from tiros fires A number of girels that started outside the forest came dangerously close to the boondry at the briant time forest tire tires are tire raging in ill the northwest at this timea bartish june grass and other in material la Is very dry here hero in tho the manti forcht tor I 1 or this reason wo we expect every ono one entering tho the forest to IQ ia extremely careful with file hanger Ol ollerton lorton reported of an inch of 0 rain during juno at ho Af mammoth ammoth station dr sampson elates states that 91 of an inch of rain fell fel I 1 nt at tho the alcind station it ft as approximately ono one fifth of an inch leas lose at tho the experiment station and in the oaka oaks majo majoria rit lt of tho the sheep permitted to enter tho forest on july I 1 wan wall ready to go onto the ranges that date ranger reports counting fourteen bands in one day tha thu trappers tr appere averett kofford and hare have baen on the forest during tho the past ton daya days burning their old bait stations placed on tho the range last fall the stockmen using ou it lson valley have been compelled to employ an additional herder to keep their cattle oft off that range tor for or three weeks or until the low larkspur dried up at the present time the upper tipper vallo valle la to as blue na as an alfalfa field in fit bloom pitch or oleoresin which exudes from living pinea pines when the wood Is wounded hai h li been the worlds chief source 0 of naval stores noah was as commanded to pitch tho the ark within and without tho the basket of bul bill rushes in which Pharo ahe daughter found moses floating floi ting on the nile was daubed with pitch in the eth centry before christ tha tho pines of nedon Nf don were famous for thu val lied led commodity As a lining for food and grain containers it held a significant place in fit tho economie life of the ancients and even now it 1 ie used for woven even I 1 water baskets by the indians in the southwest Routh As a covering for altars it hai has mony gods and as calking for the of armed tri remes it was one of the sinos of war until rather recently many of tho sib id a iii ii I in the early das of the 1 industry in thia tills country era still in itse in 1904 the cup now largely supplants eup plants tho the wasteful box bov batom atom was wait introduced on 1 h commercial scale ant atil ive give 1 operators now this r system item almost exclusively dr kjolso gerry of the forest products labori t tory describes the production of ot oleoresin ole oleo ornain from which turpentine tur and rosin are mado made in bullet bulletin just issued by tho the U 8 department of agriculture tills bulletin no 1064 can ba be had for tho the asking I 1 studios of rolls taken from front burns burns in chaparral on tho the angeles show a reduction in the moisture mol aturo holding capacity before the fire this tills amount to 58 pw per cont cent and 53 6 per cont cent immediately after TIM had decreased to 31 34 7 tuo years later thus iba lbs of goll soil with a capacity of 58 2 1 lbs of water mater was by tiro tire and erosion to a capacity nt of 34 7 ibs lbs two years inter later it Is this tills reduction of 40 per cent in the water holding capacity of soils solis that Is partly ible tor for the tte floods and high waters tron from burbol urea areas a |