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Show Forest Notes Sheepmen generally hnvo expected ll,eir lambs to weigh a llltlo lightur tiis "car t'"lu usulll however thu weights of liimbs so far would seem t0 indicate that they are fully ud to the average. Weights have averted aver-ted from 05 to 70 pounds for the j3y lambs. To date no weights of tattle have come to our attention. ganger Thursby has completed he repair of the Ephraim-Orange-ville telephone line from Olsen Cau-vou Cau-vou to Kphraim. A complete new linei except for the wire, was constructed con-structed from the top of the ruouu-tajn ruouu-tajn to Tom's Dugway, at a cost of proximately $60. It is reported that the Falrview rj, & H Association and tho Trail Mountain unit of tho Cottonwood Creek C & H Association ar0 driving driv-ing their cattle og the Forest today. October 9th. The stockmen feel lnat while .there is plenty of feed, It is so dry that the cattle will rapidly rapid-ly lose iu wefeht hereafter and that it is really a paying proposition to get them down and get Uie benefit of the feed iu their fields before the frost injures it. It is reported that a number of calves have died from black-les in the meadows west of Ephraim. The Bureau of Anmal Industry has discontinued dis-continued furnishing stockmen with the Government vaccine, so that it till be necessary for them to purchase pur-chase this material elsewhere. October 2 and 9 was fire prevention preven-tion week. According tto the National Na-tional Fire Underwriters, during the year 1921, 15,000 lives and pro perty to the value of $485,000,000 me destroyed by fire. When we consider what a severe drain on tna public- purse fire causes each year, a it any wonder that steps to clean ap premises, remove rubbish, correct Sazarde, and cultivate carefulness hould be insisted upon, At the pre-ant pre-ant time timber to the value of millions of dollars is going up in uoke every day in Canada, while in jirts of the United States the situation situ-ation is not much better. Even iere in this immediate locality the linger from fire on our Forest is A as to require the utmost vigil-ace vigil-ace on the part of local Forest offers of-fers if we hope to escape loss from :hat source. State schools and roads arj to ikare in National Forest receipts, lovernors of 28 states have just lean notified that 2 5 per cent of the 13,421,531 received from timber ales, grazing permits and other iources of National Forest revenue 'or the past fiscal year, will be distributed dis-tributed by the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, accord-lug accord-lug to District Forester, R. H. Rut-Mge, Rut-Mge, of Ogden. These moneys are returned to states in which National Forests are located for expenditure upon schools and roads. An additional ad-ditional 10 per cent of the total re-ffipts re-ffipts is transferred to the Fores Mrvice for he construction of roads |