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Show Forset Notes Camp Buildings O. K. On May 15 Supervisor Humphrey Humph-rey walked from Ccttonwood Canyon Can-yon over to the Beaver Dams to see how the CCC buildings had withstood the winter. He found that the snow was pretty well gone from the south slopes and that the building1 1 had suffered no dam-aige dam-aige from last winter's snows. The kitchen floor of the mess hall was carrying about two inohes of water. However, since the flocr ii of cement, ce-ment, no .damage should result. The following day the Supervisor mlade another trip ever into Lower Gocseberry in order to inspect the Gooseberry, Dam. On this date the peak of the Fish Creek mn-off mn-off oocurred. Supervi or Humphrey Humph-rey estimated that between live and six hundred second feet cf water were ging over the spillway. The ice had net melted from the p.md and there was considrable snow leit over all of the watershed on this date. Mr. Lofgren, of the State Engineer'.; oniec, recently made a trip from Sccfield te Fair-view Fair-view by way of Woods' Canyon and the Gooseberry Dam. '(According '(Ac-cording to Mr. Lofgren, the peak l'lcw for Fish Creek occurred in 1936 on the 12th day cf May. This year the peak flow was on the 16th day of May. The peak of the run-off in 1936 showed nine hundred hund-red second feet of water in Fish Creek at the Scof ield Reservoir, while in 1937 there were twelve hundrd (scend feet. The 1937 figures fig-ures break all measurement rec-crds rec-crds fcr this stream. Personal Mention Messrs. Lee Stratton and Errol C. Crary of the Regional Office at ,Ccden arrived in Ephraim on May 17 to make an office in ipection. They expect to be here until the last of the mcnth. Part cf their time will be spent in checking over the work at the CCC Camps and possibly at one ranger office. High Water On the evening of May 17 the Ferron Creek became so high that the officials of the Ferron CCC Camp were afraid that it wculd flcod the crushing plant located in Ferron Canyon. The RD-8 Caterpillar was accordingly brought into service and opened up the creek channel so that the water was diverted from the side of the canyon bcttom where the plant is located. Other than a little incenvenience, the high waters wa-ters have caused no serious damage dam-age to date. Boulger Lake FuU Frank Cox of Fairview reports that recently while pa ting Boulger Creek he observed that the lake was full audi the cverflow carrying p. large stream of water. The twelve inch culvert in the b.ttom of the dam could not carry the stream during normal high water. This culvert will be filled with cement as soon as the work can be undertaken. Road Open The Huntington Canyon Road is now open as far up as the Old Folks' Flat. A caterpillar has pushed off most of the snowslide above Crandall Canyon so that by driving over approximately fcur feet of snow for lesr than 200 feet the read is passable. The creek was over the read at the Crandall camp ground on May 18 and the road' workers were endeavoring en-deavoring to confine the water to the old channel. Tree Planting During the past month, the ERA crew working in Huntington Canyon Can-yon under the supervi ion of Lee young has planted 5079 Deuglas Fir trees on approximately seven acres in the Crandall Canyon burned area, five pounds of Doug las fir seed on twenty acreo in the same locality, and twenty acres to Engelmann spmce on the Horse Clreek burn. Seed for the latter was collected in Twelve Mile Canyon Can-yon last fall. The Engelmann spruce were planted in fourteen ir.che-. of snow. The Douglas Fir, both seed and' trees, were planted when sell and moisture conditions were ideal. It i: heped that results re-sults from these planting i will justify the expense. Fuuther ERA Activities ERA employees are now putting the . fh-'ishing touches on tlie two camp ground n on Ranger Thursby's district It is expected that the Spring Ciy Picnic Ground will be ready forvisiters by june 15. Some cf the stoves and tne water system are finished and the large foot bridge tv nearing completion. Some 35 long tables have been built at the ERA camp in Spring City Canyon and will be distributed distrib-uted among- various camp grounds. All materials used in the construction con-struction cf these tables were cut on the fore t by this ERA crew during the past winter. Visitors have already begun looking look-ing over the Lake Hill Picnic Ground. The lake is now full of water and the trees and grass abcut' the area are green. A truck load of large trcut were planted in the lake the past week. Fishing will net be allowed, however, how-ever, until later in the season. The load to this camp ground is in g'od condition. The cre'sote plart above Wire Grass Kat is running full force, treating materials for swings, teeter tee-ter v and sign posts for the camp grounds. Stcckmen Cooperate Due to the lateness of the season, a number of the Ephraim cattle permittees are still holding their steck off the range. No cattle have as yet entered Ephraim Canyon. Can-yon. Some have been placed in New Canyon and some in Willow Creek on private lands below the Forest boundary. This will keep the Forest range from being trampled tram-pled while wet and will also aid in the production of a better forage for-age cover this year. The cooperation coopera-tion cf the stockmen in this matter is appreciated. CCC News The Ferron CCC. Camp has completed the masonry wall protecting pro-tecting the two spans of the Seely Creek bridge in Joes Valley. The Fern n Canyon Road has been completed up to where it enters the "ledrre." The Mayfield CCC Camp has c-mpleted work in Manti Canyon from the Duway to the Forest boundary. The mud rlides above Spruce Spring on the Twelve Mile Canyon Road have been removed and the road is being gravelled up the canyon. Lions Perry Oveson and Mr. Kc fiord cf Castle Dale came off Trail Mountain Wednesday evening with a large male lion that they had been following for two days, as it had escaped with a tvap. This ir the secend lion that they have caught in that locality in the past ten days. Mr. Oveson has a cougar cou-gar hound to which he intends feeding thi-, lien, since he believes that this menu will make a better hunter of the dcg. |