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Show Forest Notes itanger Anueisuii leorts that on iviuiCii , i-ea .u.u-sen, Clayton Kcf-iuiu Kcf-iuiu a..u Pciiy oveson cf Castle vat, ue.rte uox ol tne State Fish ana Game Department and others ent up into Joes Vaiiey hunting lion. During the hunt they succeeded suc-ceeded in capturing two full grown female and iwo lion cubs. One of tne cubs was killed by the dogs, while the other one was taken alive. They report that the snow was too deep to ride horses over the upper ; part cf Lower Joe's Valley. They did succeed in riding up as far as 1 Indian Creek and as far west as the first switch back along the Eph-raim-Orangeville road. In one day they reported seeing 500 deer on the range north of Seely Creek, and 1 while they got over a considerable I part .of the low range, they never j saw any elk outside of the Kitchen and the Black Dragon range. They rei-ort, however, that elk tracks S are very numerous leading out onto .' the South Horn. , Perry Behunin and Easton Leslie U of Person and Arnold Smith of the State Pish and Game Department succeeded in catching a large male lion along the Blue Trail, south of Ferron Canyon one day last week. I Mr. Behunin reports that the elk are ranging largely at the present time on trie scuth slopes into Ferron Fer-ron Creek frcm Bear Creek and east. These hunters report that i there are mere elk and deer on the South Horn than cn any other part of the range in that section. The boys working on the Manti canyon road reported seeing the tracks of a large lion crossing the read forward and back just above their camp, immediately following I the heavy snow of March 8. Seven liens have already been taken from the Manti Forest this year, and it is hc-ped that seme hunter with dogs can come down and pick up this deer slayer before he kills too many deer in Manti and Willow Creek Canyons. Fores Visitors On March 9, Regional Engineer, J. P. Maitm, bupe. vising Engineer Stuart Udeil ana Orvilie Anderson, Engineer frcm tne Wasningoon Oi- nee visited at the Ferron Camp. While at Ferron these Engineers looked over the g.aveling work which is being carried on between S evens Creek and the top of tne ledge, west of . Dry Mountain. They left t'r points north the same eve- ning. CCC Work Progresses Satisfactorily if Supei visor Humphrey returned , from the Ferrcn CCC camp on tne I evening of March 10. He reports I that the past two weeks have been ' extremely muddy and that little I ''c.s been accomplished on the Fer- ron Canyon road. During the wet I weather tne men have constructed j a Feres; boundary fence in Straight i Canyon. Tne new cattle guard j along this boundary has also been Installed and the boundary portal 1 wUl be completed this week. The 1 table buildeis repert having used up all of the table material at the Fer-;'cn Fer-;'cn Camp and that they have com-1 com-1 Pieted the construction of approxi-I approxi-I " inately 115 tables. These with the tables censtructed by ERA workers , at Mayfield should be sufficient to equip quite satisfactorily most cf i our compgrounds cn the Manti Forest. For-est. The CCC woikers who are reconstructing recon-structing a section cf the Manti j Canyon road near the Big Dugway j report the canyon read as next thing to impassable. For a few days it was necessary for the men to walk a pa. t cf the distance frcm I the truck to where the work is underway. The equipment shep at the Ferrcn Fer-rcn Camp has been remodeled during dur-ing the wet weather. With a few more days time cn this project the building will be one of the most convenient and up to date at any camp in this section. (Continued on last page.) Forest Notes (continued from- front page) Snow Measurements Ranger Ollertcn reports that the 1 snow measurements made on Feb ruary 26th in Upper Gooseberry and in Co'.tcnwc.cd showed for Cottonwood Cotton-wood a snow depth of 50.6 inches, with a water content of 14.9 inches; in the Gooseberry Reservoir Site the snow depth was 45.6 inches and the water contend was 14.7 inches. The recent storm in Manti Canyon Can-yon deposited 12 inches of snow at the Big Dugxay where the CCC's are working cn the road. This storm wi'h the continuous wet weather had made it next to impos-sible impos-sible to get men up on the job. |