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Show BUDGET OF NEWS IS GATHERED BY 1 FORESTCT One of the foresters of the Ogden office has returned from a trip to the Beaver Oeek nurserv. In the Wasatch forest, 8 miles from Kamas. While he was there Supervisor Bruins Bru-ins completed the planting of lOO.Onn trees cn the north slope of Slate creek Asa L. Browcr. well known lii Ogden, ha charge of the nursery, and his present cramped living quarters quar-ters will be relieved by an addition, now in construction Mrs. Brower. who Is visiting two uncles in Twin Falls, will join her husband a little later In packing the small trees for shipment, ship-ment, crates of about the ordinary size are UBed Wet sphagnum moss is laid lengthwise the middle of the bottom, and two rows of the trees are placed with the roots to the cen ter overlapping on this moss. More-moss More-moss is laid over the roots on top and at the ends. The box is crowd ed so that in nailing the slats on top the trees are so compressed that j there is no shaking about In transit, i which would dr out the roots and ! kill the trees. Brower saves the time of a man in pressing down the crate covers until nailed by the use of a home-made cheese press belong ing to Mrs Parke of Kamas Kamas has always been somewhat of a lumber center for local need and that at Park City, the timber being secured from the upper reaches of the Provo and Weber rivers and Beaver and other creeks Most of thci timber Is now hauled on sleds, since sleighing at this altitude of 6500 feet and higher is normally good for two months Years ago there was more river driving. Keefer & Thompson drove ties down Beaver creek to I Wanshlp five or six times 25 or 30 years ago, and about the same time S. S. Jones was driving on the Provo i i river to Provo City, and George Kidder Kid-der on the main Weber to Wanship Joseph Williams is now running his sawmill in Kamas, and some of the spruce logs In his yard are fine. He also utilizes a large amount of dead timber, this, sawed Into 3x6 and 6x6, principally, making dimension timbers tim-bers and mine lagging. Early loggers log-gers were not so frugal In utilizing material, however. On Yellow Pine creek there lie the rotted tops of yellow pines two and a half to three feet In diameter from which but one log was taken,and one veteran 4 1-2 feet In diameter, had afforded two logs, but the largest log. next to the stump had been left, evidently too large to move, and two possible logs In the top. This tree must have contained 3500 feet of lumber. Oc casional death of lodgepole pine trees from bark beetle 1b seen on this creek, and considerable barking of young trees by porcupines On the whole oung growth of yellow pine is satisfactory, and the Beaver creek watershed seems to be a yellow pine tpe of watershed For this reason the planting or yellow pine Is being a thorough test, although thus far planted yellow pine has not succeeded succeed-ed as well throughout District 4 as Douglas fir. For several weeks. Yellow Pine creek has been the home of an in terestlng trapper and naturalist. Theodore Kowallek. who thinks of Routt county, Colo, as home, but who has spent the greater part of bis time for years alone In the forest, for-est, aud is known In Jackson s Hole and other game centers Kowallek is of the opinion tbat not only life in the open, but occasional change of location to change the drinking water, wa-ter, is beneficial to health A noticeable feature of Kamas is the presence of not only good dwellings dwel-lings but the fact that they are kept well painted. Hope is entertained that the bonds will carry by which the southern Summit County high school district, including Oakley Marion Peon, Kamas, Francis, and Woodltwn. will erect a $30,000 high school building on the site provided by Kamas at a cost of $2000. G F. Butler Is constructing the ditch by which Beaver creek is to be diverted a couple of miles above Johnson's mill and brought down to Hi. point where he will install a new turbine for bis electric light plant. The llcht p'ant now derives power from the mill, and runs from dark to midnight The new pPtnt is not only to furnish 24-h0UT service, but power in quantity for motors of different kinds The fO-barrel a day flouring mill is, unfortunately, not running much of the time lur lack of grain. A 0 Johnson state; that ten years ago the wheat grown in the valley was not on l -nfiielent to supply the flour Deeded locally, bul also to t-hip considerable con-siderable flour to Park City. Now as much flour is imported for Kamas as the iormcr surplus The farmer say that wheat is caught by frost more frequently than formerly, and all ascribe the difference in climate to moisture conditions due to continued con-tinued beavj irrigation. Perhaps the moisture condition fo the lowlands may influence the contiguous lands in the lower foothills to the extent thut dry funning would be successful. success-ful. If, indeed dr farming would not have succeeded there before the day of Irrigation. A dry farm wheat field on the Park City-Kamas state road looks well In Park City the aerial tram of the Silver King Coalition mine is nilet, the lower level of the mine having been flooded by the breaking of a bulkhead. A thousand-gallon tank is baling out the water, tank full weighing 4 tons being holster from tn, i :nu foot lev e ever two mln utes. Trouble has been exppriencen in the overflowing of the state road as ' it leaves Park City for Kamas by Silver Creek, leaving a deposit or ' sand Work has been begun on a I new dugway high enough to escape the highest w ater. Summit county bought a Relianc.' rock crusher for road construction j It was used in the hullding of road near the mouth of Beaver canyon. I but a convenient gravel pit wus dis-covered dis-covered and the .crueher has since I been unused. Kamib Is about midway between the Weber and Provo rivers, the for-J for-J mer of which has its source on the north .md west of Reid's peak, the Provo on the south, and the Duchesne on the east. The valley between the Weber and Provo is so level that water from the Provo flows Into the Weber; and if watr were rakf-n out I of the Weber at the upper sid o the valley it could easily be conduct- i ed into the Provo. |
