Show club favors forest G control of yankee advocates of local ownership and control of the property property around the yankee popular fishing pond and water storage reservoir in the paro wan mountains failed to convert a majority of those present at the gun and rod club meeting mon oil 1 day night to their views in t the he matter t instead the club members vot ed in overwhelming majority in favor of the property proper tys s going to th 1 forest service if it can be araan ged on the promise of the latter to make extensive developments in that area in the way of roads camp grounds trails supervision etc vice president morris Has mussen presided at the meeting and explained that some agitation for local ownership and control either by the club the city or the reser voir company had resulted in calling the meeting to decide on the matter arguments advanced in favor of local control were that developments i at the yankee would spoil t the fishing for local people by ma man r ing it too public that transfer to i the forest service might endanger the water rights there and that already I 1 we have too much ebli public I 1 I 1 control speakers who took the opposite view argued that locally we are not in position to purchase develop and supervise the propel property ty thit that water rights are in no sense jeo pardi zed and that developments development there by the forest service as th thi latter has proposed would be far more beneficial to the community as a whole that trying to retain it as a local fish pond it developed during the discussion J however that drastic cuts ir in fr for forest e st service e funds lor this year I 1 are likely to result from the economy drive in congress and as I 1 a result no extensive development is likely even if transfer of 0 the property to the forest can be accomplished complis hed two committees were instructed to continue their efforts toward transferring the property to some public agency for development at present the reservoir company owns 60 acres for the reservoir site and the hundred acres completely surrounding it is owned by private individuals who have given an option to sell the state fish and game department has expressed a willingness to buy and probably the matter will be handled that way but transfer to that department rather complicates and might easily defeat the plans for development report was made at the meeting that some of the cedar boys had expressed a desire to hunt rabbits with the parowan carowan club and the meeting named a committee consisting of S M dark clark J M ward and scott mitchell to for such a hunt during national wild life week march 17 to 23 preferably in this valley on the since the club is planning a dance for that evening |