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Show . Destructive Hail Storm Hits North Sanpete Vallev Good Supply of Moisture in t Sanpete Vally A; ! Moisture Conditions: ST Moisture conditions ha,ve ccn- i 1 tinued favorable thruout the month of May. Mr.' James M. Hockaday of th Experiment Station, reports a total precipitation during the month of 3 63 inch (to May 28). Owing to )so much storm and cold weather, t;,e spring runoff has been slow to ' : start and the fear has been openly e pi-cs ed by many Kphr.iim farmers that there would be no runoff; - thai ! runoff was impossible because of the large amount of vegetation left on the watershed last fall. With a few warm days during the past week, the increase in water with, its heavy silt content gave promfe to the farmers of an abundant supply and di-approves the, contention that the runoff from melting snow is held to any appreciable extent by plant S growth other than tre:s and shrubs, most of which are unpalatible to livestock. At Mayfield, it was reported re-ported that cn May SI, the water ; v;al3 higher in Twelve-mile Creek than it nas been in ten years, and since that date the stream has been ev;n higheT. i On the Emery Ccunty sid.; of the Forett. the streams habe been up to i h? aitr:ge high-water stage. The t.ta amct'nt of precipitation, how-1 how-1 aver, a? you go east from the top ! of the main plateau, diminishes. ' It is believed, however, that there ! has been sufficient moisture to manttain plant growth: j Road Work - Cottonwood Canyon: ; The State Road Department is i op' rang the Cottonwood Canyon j Read to the coal mini's in the head iZZ , of Huntington Canyon. On May 25, Pthe caterpillar had gotten as far with the snow removal an the big drift near the Gooseberry bridge. i As sooi as., that, drift .ha -been re-J; re-J; i ! moved, there should be no great difficulty in opening the roiad from ma parnt on. Ephraim Canyon: i : Snow has been removed off the I ; read from Ephraim to the gate at js- ; ' the Experiment Station. Onle, of i i 1 the new R-5 Cats, with trail-builder : I attachment, wan used. Several days, .. ! ! ' however, were required because of i the depth of the snow. In this connection', it may be of interest to mention that about fourteen years ago the fir. t date a horse, could1 be j j taken into- the Station was on June 1 i 5- Practically the samfe snow conditions con-ditions have existed! this year. Spring City Road: The Spr'ng City Road has been completed from Spring City to tha Mudhcle Spring by members of the Mt. Pleasant CCC, Camp. An excellent excel-lent road for full 6.3 miles has been constructed; in the pa't, hlgh-cen-iis j teTs,largc boulders, steep pitchen, etc. j praventd a great many people from , ; KOing up into the mountain)! As : scon as the snow condition; permit, the work will be continued to connect con-nect with the new road at the tap :j of the Corduroy Dugway. Approxi-f; Approxi-f; "lately four m'les of this road re-0 re-0 mans to be completed. Reclamation Service ' Active on Manti: Ranger Ardersem reports that i; i from May 21 to 23, inclusive, repre-y repre-y nfativ:i: of the Reclamation, Ser-s Ser-s :: ; vice were in Joes Valley looking over li "oir sit n. It has been inti-f.i inti-f.i mated that the Reclamation Ser-fc'1 Ser-fc'1 Vlce P'a on establilhing a sidei-.i sidei-.i camp cf the Ephraim CCC Camp 11 m. Lower Joes Vall'y from, which ; Pcint they expect to construct a N "unioer of .-mall rerervcirs to supply t water to the Orangeville and H Jrfstle ale farmers to replao- water 'hat may bs divert-d into Sanpete Wunty by the construction of the tpnraim and Spring City tunnels. New CCC Camps Locati-ns Reconnnitered: on May 24, Lieut. C. O. Brunner, charge cf PE 223 at Mt. Pleasant, co,n;)a;ded by Capt. Hall, recently "n Ohio, made an inspneton cf " number of locations fnr r.hp nrn- P-.rd tVwv.-.roile, Camp. Wat'r t"pe- "letted and the ciefi- '" legation cf tho camp .ill $- ai'ii.:, need. On May !i. Lin,: , . "el'- accompanied bv CMpt. smith, locked ever a location for th2 Perron Camp. Range Condition .: Rangers on the Em'ry side, of F:rest repOTt that from 25 to j i per cnt cf th3 east side cattle lave, enters the Fcrest to date. On hW?? side' Ra"gsi report about Fo Permi"d cattle on the vlh n Sprin? c tv. two-thirds at larm and Ma,nti- anc! a sliehtly I t.m r:ro:rLt:)Se on the Forset at wl mile c'?nyon. Fcrage has , oeen veiT siow startinq. However, Rr-h bErn 'naWng a very good ; p,ih since the sixw disappeared, ganger Thursby reports that ncne th w p' Pritted to lamb on forest, had entered the Forest to date; many lambing grounds on other parts of the Forest are unoccupied un-occupied at present because of the absence of any forage growth. Livestock Numerous: Last fall, whie;n the stock-purchasing programme was taking out so many of the cull stock from the .communities .com-munities adjacent to the Manti, Forest, For-est, the opinion frequently expressed was that in 1935 thera would! be no surplus cattle or sheep and that permittees per-mittees would be unable to fill their permits. With so many cattle taken out of Sanpete and Emery Counties, it was thought that there would be no demand for grazing pairnits in 1935. This guel-s, however, was entirely en-tirely wrong since there have been move applications for temporary perm'ts thlq spring than heretofore; this appliu to both cattle and sheep. Apparently, only a part of the "surplus "sur-plus staek ownedby grazing permit-tons permit-tons was disposed of. This Fore't is unabl" to take care of any surplus sur-plus stock as it would be inconsistent to apply reductioni-i arid tblen turn arramd and grant temporary permits. per-mits. Flood Dams Completed at Mount Pleasant: Thei Upper and Lower Flood Dams and the- new channel below Mount Plea'ant have all been completed in good shape and a good volume of high water is now running over both dams A s'de camp has been es-tabli'h-d at the Cottonwood Spring nean- Bird eye, and a number of the CCC tnrollees are constructing boundry fences there and at the mouth of Little Clear Creek. It is hoped aleo that a new fence can be constructed alcog the Forest Boundry b'tween " Oak Creek and Dry Ctoek. Sidcamp Flamied for Dairy Fork: The Cletrac 55, with trailbuilder, has b:)en sent to Dairy Fork to rebuild re-build a part of the Diary Fork Road from the Allman Cabin to the railrcad tracks. As -zoom an thei necessary repairs to the road are completed, wa hepe to establish a s'decamp at that pci'nt where we have approximately six miles of bcundry fence to construct. Thie f nce will not only help to preveat 're pass of unp'rmitted stock, but will also m'ake it pcsiible to get a better utilization of the forage hi that locality". |
