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Show CHIEF ENGINEER FDR FOREST SERVICE IS RERE i O. C. Merrill, chief engineer for the forest service, arrived at Ogden district dis-trict headquarters from the Washington Washing-ton office thiB morning, for conferences confer-ences with L. F. Kneipp, Ogden district dis-trict forester, regarding the application applica-tion of the provisions of the federal road law, known as the Shackleford-Bankhead Shackleford-Bankhead measure, to suggested road projects. Tho measure contains a feature providing an appropriation of a mil-Hon mil-Hon a year for ten years for building of roads within, and adjacent to, na-tional na-tional foreBt territory. Utah's allotment allot-ment under tho measure amounts to , a little less than $500,000. I Nine road projects, for which federal fed-eral aid was proposed by the stato iuiiu cuiummmun in conierence wnn officials of the Ogden district forest servqe in Salt Lake this week, it was stated, would consume practically all of the state's apportionment for the next fiscal year. James T. Jardine, grazing inspector from the Washington office of the forest for-est service, returned today from Logan Lo-gan after a week's vacation spent in that section, and will leave tomorrow for Portland, headquarters for district No. G, or tho Pacific Northwest district. dis-trict. A. E. Aldous,. grazing examiner, on Monday will begin the work of compiling com-piling data on poisonous plants obtained ob-tained In investigations made in the Fishlake national forest in central Utah during the summer months. His work at the Ogden, headquarters will last about ton days, after which he will return to tho Washington offices. Mrs. M. L. Walker, employed in the office of Q. R- Craft, district fiscal agent, has returned from a month's vacation, spent in eastern Oregon. Nils B. Eckbo and D. M. Lang, timber tim-ber sale inspectors, have returned from ipspectlon trips, lasting two' months. Eckbo's time was spent In Inspecting timber sales and other activities ac-tivities in the silviculture work In the Lemhi-Chnllls forests in Idaho and in the Cache national forest In Utah. Lang's inspection work was confined to activities In the timberland on tho Upper Bear river in the Wasatch national na-tional forest. George L. Peoples, draftsman, has tendered his resignation to Dsltrlct Forester L. F. Kneipp. Tho resignation resigna-tion will take effect on October 10, after which he will return to his home In Washington where he has been appointed ap-pointed to a position In the offlco of chief of ordnance In the war department. depart-ment. Charles H. Kendall, senior highway engineer, with offices in Ogden district dis-trict forest headquarters, has returned re-turned from an Inspection of the Helper-Duschesne road on which construction con-struction work has been started. The highway is being built by the counties in co-operation with the forest service, the funds from the latter institution being provided by the 10 per cent allotment al-lotment regulation. oo |