Show AN OTHER ANOTHER UTAH FOREST RESERVE 4 1 special to ta the news new 11 washington D at may 30 another lorest forest reserve has just i ut been established stab lislie d in south I 1 ce central I 1 n I 1 utah under the name of the Fili fillmore forest reserve a northern extension of the beaver for est reserve about 67 miles in in length embracing the watersheds formed by the dinou mountains bains arid and the canyon range in millard sevier arid and juab counties the reserve will which ch is from I 1 to fco V l miles il in width and aon contains approximately ae ac res consists of a rough mountainous country ri rising in places as high as 10 feet from the sc avier vi er desert on the west and from the sevier round and buah valleys on the east these valleys vary in altitudes from about to feet above above sea level in both ra ranges the country is out cut up into it a succession i of high rocky ridges filid and depp deep canyons with only three points throughout tile the entire 6 67 7 miles at wb iab wagons I 1 1 t f can cross th the e mountains ins CHARACTER R OF 01 RESERVE cwi owing to the steep slopes t the ii e i light IWA loose I 1 ell character fracter of the soil I 1 and the large quail quantities cities of bo boul ul der deni deposited deposit id in ill many places whon when this section was a portion of the bed of old lake bonneville removal of the forest and ground cover is Is sure to be fo followed 11 by extensive and destructive washing D and on the slop slopes es and in tile the boti bottoms onis of the canyons the bract is kalua valuable ble only as as a water mhd and for stock grazing purposes lind and to extent for tile production of tim timber benfor for local use there is no cultivated landane lan land dand and there is probably a bly none that cun 1 in be successfully cultivated cultivate owing dowing to the severe early frosts the I 1 stream beds tire are generally narrow it and too kocl rocky y tobe to be tillable DAMAGED BY SHEEP P the forest and ground ground cover er on these mountains are of the utmost importance in regulating the water flow irreparable damage has resulted in ill the PIL pa vant range bioni the action u r m of alje grasso grasses and small herbs and shrubs thru s e eabie ve i e over evoi grazing chiefly by transient transit in i sheep the protective pro cojei ov r having been destroyed es troyed or greata greatly impaired on oil these steep sloped slope th the loose thin soil I 1 h as ben been badly washed in many ot of the canyons of the pavant davant range deep gorges have been cut and immense volumes of boulders gravel and infertile mud have been poured out upon the valleys I 1 ays eys below caverl covering i ng much val bable farming land and filling ditches andea andiana and cana nals where the ole snow formerly lay until july and august su sustaining staining aud regulating the stream flow it now melts and runs off early in the spring forming destructive floods to be fiAl followed owed by drout droutha lis equally injurious in this way away tile the capacity of tile the streams for irrigation has been var very y greatly decreased in some cases as much as 50 per cent and the population of su such ell towns town s as scipio holden fillmore and kanosh has actually diminished much valuable agricultural land has been ruined by deep washes r out cut by floods such damage is coli confined fined almost entirely to the cavata range where 1 over grazing has bocen most s severe adre and alid has bas been in ill proportion oli to the size of the streams THE BENEFITED TOWNS tile the towns of e scipio oak city kanosh and meadow are coin compelled pelle d to depend mainly upon waterfront water from froni irrigation dit ches for doi domestic nostic pur purposes P oses the general use ise of water sheda as bedding grounds ground s f for or sheep especially in ill the pavant davant 1 runge linge P has resulted in tile the pollution oil ti the ie water supply and at flood time each h spring the anter becomes absolutely unfit for use much sickness has haa resulted from this condition especially at Fil willinore linore scipio holden and kinosh Kano sli I 1 the amount of land bilich can be i irrigated from froin tins this tract depends altogether alto gither upon the amount of water available and its distribution thru the acke season tile the arable land laibl practically unlimited in extent is almost value valueless less without water tho a beginning made inside in in utilizing utilizing 9 it for dry land crops such as rye and ail wheat noles no lesa 9 than six neighboring 1 r illg towns depend altogether upon this oserve f or water irrigating ting purpose I 1 es while fi five moie towns t artay depend upon it I 1 FO it I 1 ONLY I 1 v I 1 1 tile the st streams re 11 8 of f the I 1 hii heso 0 on 01 the yum w side 6 le of the V range 1 lifave h ve I 1 f ai i Q I 1 I 1 t water L I 1 il fornili 1 if iu h gallon H purposes oily h JU dureg f r lt i ng ti tile e brief spring tit at flo flood 01 t imo in 16 order orde r to inet mature tire th alie various 0 V 4 ali crops 0 s it is id of the UtIl utmost lost im ain poi la lie e t eliat the flow 0 be ex axlen oil 1 1 1 ded thru a as s long ii a period a as s josg P poss ible and that thai the waste aste of water due to heavy sudden floods be 1 1 avoided in many cases i where butone but one crop of alfalfa can b be e raised owl owing ng to abo short period peri i of flood water at er two ci crops 0 p s were abre fortner formerly ly grown and bo raised again gill hi if the old conditions of s stream flow couer evv 1 be restored the forest servi 1 e w will A al one once e V place tile the reserve u under kidera a force 1 I I 1 i I 1 which will take efficient meas mea ures to prevent further in injury jury to th the forest eforest cover from fires overgrazing 1 or I other causes while seeing to it at the same time that the timber Iker herbage bage and all other forest resources are utilized to th the e best adv advantage an by those dependent t upon tile the reserve for such sup supplies p 1 l 1 ios every effort w will ill ve be made to brin bring fr the ran range g e into permanent good condition in n doing so grazing will be a so far as may inay be found necessary to prevent destruction 0 n 0 of f the range or unfair competition tile the aim C will he be to allow all the gra graziul ziLig which will not decrease the next ye yearns ars supply auppl I 1 y and t oal lot it on oil an all equable basis 1 |