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Show DIXIE HAS HAD HEAVY SNOW STORM Timothv Hoyt. head of the land department de-partment of the lorcst service In this cltj has returned from an extended trip through I'tahs ''Dixie band," much pleased with the country. His mission to the southern part of! .the state was to make investigations I regarding available watering places i in the forests of that section with a ! view to protecting them against those ' who have been in the habit of securing se-curing rightc to small springs and atcr holes In districts where water for sheep and cattle are scarce. Walter Wa-lter rights have no particular con- miction with the land department, the j forester says, but jt has been deemed adxlsable b the head of the department depart-ment that the service should hae in ; min,) such matters Mr. Hoyl has been in the southern country more than a month durinc which time he visited the "Arizdia Strip" and gained informition on nearly all "the watr-r holes" of that Section He says that recr-nilv "Dixie1 "Dix-ie1 and thr. entire southern country wa" visited by a heavy snow storm The season is Inte. flue to a colder winter than UBUSl and to the late storm (iardens have been planted onl a short time and in onlv a few Instances are the people of Washington Washing-ton eountv gathering onions anil oth-ier oth-ier early garden stuff. Other years, garden stuffs has matured, at this jdate, in largf o.uantltlc? Mr Hoyt says that the country Is I overstocked with cattle, horses, and sheen but that the range is in better condition than In a number of vears. |