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Show Forests Notes Game Notes The Manti Fcrest has been favored fa-vored during the past hunting season sea-son with th? presence of Associate Regional Forester C. N. Woods and nis assistant, John Nelson, of the Regional Office. Owing to the fact that their time for hunting was limited to two days, they did not both kill their bucks. Mr. Woods got his deer, however, and Mr. N-.-lson got a part cf a deer. The heavy storms at the opening cf the hunting season prevented their ge.ting over to the hunting ground where a kill was reasonably sure the first day. There is a certain element of luck attached to deer hunting. One may find his deer '.he first morning or may be so unfortunate as to have to hunt for several days befora the right ani-mal ani-mal comes along. Ranger Cox reports that cn the 25th mere than 700 bucks had been taken from District 1 480 of these came from Twelve Mile, 117 from Six Mil;:, and 112 from Manti Canyon. Can-yon. These numbers will undoubtedly undoubt-edly be materially increased by the deer taken out on the latter days of the hunt. In Ephraim Canycn cn District 3, 151 deer had been tak:n out by Monday evening. Wanlass Rasmussen of Ephraim brcught down a deer with an antler ant-ler spread of 34 inches. The deer when drawn weighed 252 lbs. Eric Peterson, also of Ephraim, brought dewn a buck from the Muddy drainage that weighed 275 lbs. According Ac-cording to the checkers in Twelve Mile Canyon, this was the largest deer brought past that station. Bear Visits Hunters A report has been received from Twelve Mile to the effect that a Utah County hunter ran across a large b.cn bear. After shooting the bear, which had already been wounded by an.ther hunter, it made for him, and a timely shot in the forehead brought the animal aown almost at his feet. CCC en-roUe-s frcm the Mayfield Camp working with Engineer Winkler saw the bear and hurried to get one of their number with a gun to come and shoot it. However, before be-fore their arrival the bear had been killed by the hunter above referred to. Prizes Won By Manti At the Ephraim Homecoming on July 4 the Manti Forest re-c.ived re-c.ived second prize for its float in the parade. The prize, a nice canvas-backed chair, was taken to .he Indian Creek Ranger Station. At the Sanpete County Fair the Forest exhibit received as first prize a silver loving cup. This is being held in the Supervisor's office of-fice for disposition. It has not yet been decided whether the trophy should b turned over to Ranger Cox or should be forwarded to the Regional Office, where a suitable inscription can be placed on the cup and it can be placed in a collection col-lection of similar trophies awarded the Forest Service by various expositions ex-positions of this nature. Range Naies On the evening of October 19 a meeting was held with representatives representa-tives of the four Emery County catJa associations at the city hall in Castle Dale. At this meeting ihere were present Emery County forest officers, Associate Regional Forester C. N. Woods, his assistant, John Nelson, and Supervisor Humphrey. Hum-phrey. The distribution policy as set forth by the . Chief of Grazing, Mr. Dutton, was carefully gone into, in-to, point by point, at this meeting. After a full discussion of the entire en-tire subject, the stockmen expressed express-ed themselves unanimously as fa-vo fa-vo ing no change in the present grazing policy with regard to distribution. dis-tribution. The secretary was instructed in-structed to draw up a resolution to (."at effect and forward the same to the Regional Forester and to the local Forest officers at Eph-, Eph-, aim. Seme thirty representatives from the various associations were present at the meeting. Heavy Lambs Stockmen report that both cattle and sheep left the Manti Forest this fall in the best condition ever. It is too ea'.ly at this lirr.i.- to re-p:rt re-p:rt weights of stock. However, Niels Mortensen cf Ephraim reports re-ports that his entire lamb crop numbering between five and six hundred head, wh-n recently sold averaged 97 lbs. per head. This is considered good for April lambs. Ivfost of Mr. Mortensen's lambs were cf the mutton type. They were surr.rcrred In Canal Canyon, t is believsd that these weights are as good as anything coming off ',he Forest this year. Fork On Skyline The w.rk on the Skyline Drive Is progr ss:'ng satisfactorily under :hr supervision cf Will Cox. The road has tjen completed ready for gravel as far as Chris Lsrsen's tunnel and if the present fair weather continues it is hcp:d to have the r.ad b-oken through to the head cf .he Horseshoe this fall. GTaveling will net bs undertaken u. til next spring. Thursl y Expect d Home Ranger Wells Thursby, who has '.ocn attending the Ranger Schccl it Tony Grove on the Cache Forest For-est during the past month, is ex- ! poo.ed heme the last of this week. He reporis that a ve:y instructive and interesting course in the various vari-ous phases cf a ranger's work has been given at this training school, j |