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Show Forest Notes Senator Kin? Visits Manti SsPifrr William H. K'.iyj was a vis!tor at the Supervisor': oiao2 th? nrrnirg rf August 13. H; waSj ovomrjanled bv Mayor Willardsonj and Prcsirier.t Burr of the loca. Li'MVo Club. ! iu- admitted th need -f a Federal Building in Ephraim but i;u.'stioned j h--; p ; s.bilitv cf securing the nec-j csjar; funds because th; postal re-; cepts for Ephraim are insufficient to rreet the requirements, impccedi i ; tri building program. j Iu the af ernoon. accompanie J j bv County Commissioner S. M. j Ni.'.ien and other prominent oB- c'a'.L, the Se.'.otor looked over some :f the work being dene at the Gooseberry CCC Camp. The party Td upixr with the hoys in the C mpanv messhal!. after which Senator King rra;rt? a short talk on o-r-n-i ciditiirts thruout the United Uni-ted Sta-es, and on the work of the C. C. C.'s. Fire Th-; pr-hibltlon against smoking o.r-d camp-fire.', except along, th? reads e& in established camps was Uftod by an order from the Regional Region-al Fvrster on August 11 for the Msn'i Forest. This is the first time In' its histery that It has been considered con-sidered neefssnry to close the For-e For-e t to pub'ic camping or to smok-r-f. The order was in effect for iwximp.Mv 30 datvs. Tile unusual -lar-. about It was that it was dur-'ng dur-'ng the period when we generally wirlor.ee cur heaviest rains. 1931 will "go down ps the driest season .f record, at least for this part of Utah. Survcp Completed in Bl-ck Canyoni Engineers H. W. Sheley and V. S. Barlow completed the survey from Roeder to Black Canyon August 9 to 11 inclusive. At the same- time they located a 10 per cent grade from the top -of Horseshoe down into in-to the head of Reeder Canyon. A previous survey encountered 18 per- cent grades; This was considered consid-ered too steep to be of service so that the men started Monday morning mor-ning on the construction of the new section which eliminates the unsatisfactory grades. New Equipment Reaches Manti A .35. H. P. Cletrab with a Garwood Gar-wood Isaacson Trail-builder reached reach-ed Falrview on the evening of Au-'gust Au-'gust 9. Alvin Jensen wa.s selected to operate this machine and he went cn to the Cleveland Reserpoir cutoff cut-off road the following morning; his place as Supervisor of Truck Repairs att he Camp was filled by Harvey Thompson. Persorlxl Mention Ranger Jorgenson visited the Supervisor's Su-pervisor's Office on" August 11. At that time, he secured Blue- grass seed for sowing o.i District No. 2. He reports range conditions over his District as fair. Ranger Cox visited the Supervisor's Supervis-or's office on the morning of August 13. He came in for the purpose of securing materials and supplies for improvement of Camp grounds on District No. 1. Road Work Ranger Ollerton reports that the Tucker - Clear Creek road should be completed within the next week or tn dalys so that it will be passable pass-able for cars. Considerable work on the upper section of the road will however be necessary before it is complted to a satisfactory standard to its junction with th iceberg Road in the head of Fish Creek. Roroor Cox reports the completion comple-tion of a three mile section of the Mfleld-Emery Read The com- , rri ofs; rd I Peavine F.e-.t. Ihi; ma should 'connected up with -he tn... bv the last of th 3 presen. wk. P'rVer Jorgensen reports the .' f- , rf th Clay Sprmgs-ccmp'.etioii Sprmgs-ccmp'.etioii of the l- f Mavfl-O-i Uearhole section ol ajtu. n . rmvry Ken! witii the oepUon of tvo bridges. The . F" j t ' - U '- and ready for use by August .0. V- Cleveland Reservoir-Hunting Canyon Road cut-off now 4) under way. This project should Completed by the 25th of Au-gust. Au-gust. . Timber tavd Improvement Work 0 ,h. morning of August 8th, timbersur.d improvement work was sMrted in r.wen.'sCanyon real- the cM Vern Jensen mill. This work wii'l likely be carried on until cold v.-e ither forces the camp to. f-eek warmer quarters elsewher. Grasshopper Control The County Agent at Castle Dale has written the Supervisor'-, office advising that they have a quantity of grasshopper, bait that they wiu be glald to use in eradication of I these pest on. the Manti Forest, i The Rangers have been cemmuni rated with and a campaign against these obnoxiou-. insects will likely start in the near future. More R in The Manti Forest has been favored fav-ored during the past two weeks with copious shower'-. Some small .floods have been reported. On the afternoon of August 13, the Experiment Experi-ment Station reported '4 inch of meisture in the form of hail. During Dur-ing the same storm a small flood came out of Mt. Pleasant North Creek. This much needed moisture, while late in putting in aln appearance, appear-ance, is all the more welcome. |