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Show Forest Notes I Colonel Greoley, the chief Forester of the United States, and District; Forester R. H. Rutledge expect to spend a day or two on the Manti Forest early in July. ' Miss Christensen, our Forest Clerk spent from June 8 to 12, inclusive 1n Salt Lake City. Ranger Thursby and wife were in the Capital from' June 9 to 12. Ranger Olsen left Fairview on June 8 for Mackey, Idaho, wher-j he will have charge of the Lemh'i Forest'' during the coming season, filling the place of Supervisor Charlie Evans, who has been placed in charge of minor roads and trails in the District office. Merrill Nielson, of Ephraim, has "been appointed assistant Forest Hanger to fill the place made vacant by the transfer of Ranger OUertou from District 5 to District 6. The people of Sanpete and Emery counties are planning on holding a big celebration on the top of the, mountain along the Ephraim-Orange-vlllo road sometime early in August, providing the road is open at that time, which it is confidently expected it will be. . Deputy Supervisor S. S. Van Bos-kirk Bos-kirk returned June 18 from a trip over District 5 and a part of District 6. Part of his time while away was spent n initialing Forest Hanger Mierrill Nielson into some of the intricacies of Forest Service Work. Mr. Van Boskirk reports that accord-, ing to Mr. Lauritz Larson there is now more snow in the timber in the vicinity of Huntington Reservoir than lie has ever found there at this time of year. The snow, how-! ever, is melting very rapidly and the reservoirs are full. In a 24-hour j period the water in the Cleveland j Reservoir, raised 6 inches, which according to the care-taker, is about the average daily raise in the water level during the tiii.e the reservoir! is being filled. Owing to the extreme hoi weather, the forage is becoming dry, and a good shower would be welcome over practically all parts of the range. Numerous requests to enter the Forest before July 1 with permitted stock have been received already. Owing to the lateness of the season, we are ot allowing any stock to enter en-ter the Forest before the opening date. For a number of years the Manti has had a very good record with regard re-gard to fires. We appreciate the cooperation and assistance given us in the past by the people living adjacent to the Forest, and hope that, the same full cooperation will be extended to us during the coming year. At the present time there is perhaps more danger of fire than has been present at any time in many I years, at least on the lower rang. I In view of the many fires occurring ! during the present month on private j lands outside of the National Forests. I some of them dangorously near, we ! are cautioning people to be extreme- ly careful in burning brush on lands ji adjacent to the Forests, since the I aciion will be taken in fires trespass I cases where it is due to carelessness . as is taken when fires are started I ; wilfully. ' Ranker Ollerton reports that the Brown's Trail will be completed be-Ij be-Ij fore July 1. The Jones' Ridge Trail and dry Creek Trail have both 1 been completed. ! Ranger Williams reports work progressing satisfactorily on the Ferron Canyon road. , The timber sale business on this Forest this season does not look any too promising at the present time. Because of the strikes at the coal camps, as well as the slac market for coal, there is comparatively little ' demand for mine props at the coal 'camps. The local market for timber is also very quiet and uncertain. un-certain. Ranger Thursby reports that to i June Oth 980 head of cattle ad horses i had been counted on the Forest on j District No. 3. Seventeen bulls I were turned out with this number. . The sheepmen generally report i their sheep as shearing light this spring, at least those wintering on the West Desert. However, sheep fed on farms have produced heavy fleeces. One permittee reports clipping clip-ping an average of 14 lbs. per heaa for more than 100 sheep fed on his ranch. Of the range sheep, those that usually shear 9 lbs. per head, have averaged a trifle less than 8 lbs. One of our Fountain Green premittees reports losing 400 head of sheep out of a herd of 2,200 sincj. leavng for the winter range last fall He further reports that because of the poor condition of his ewes this spring he marked only 6 00 Iambs from a herd of 1,200 ewes. And while other permittees report better success, .generally speaking the lambing lamb-ing has been somewhat poor . this spring. One of our small premittees premit-tees at Manti reports that out of a bunch of 160 lambing ewes only two pairs of twins were born. The Emery-Mayfiel'd Forest telephone tele-phone line has been connected up with the Gunnison exchange. Henry Jensen, the Ephraim electrician, did the work. The Forest line enters the Gunnison 'switchboard through a double phantom circut, over two metallic lines running between Mayfield and Gunnison. Owing to the fact that we were unable to ring through the repeating coils, it was necessary to disconnect the line until we can secure some condensers. As soon as they are received the line will again be connected and we hope to get much better service than we have had before. The Ephraim-Orangeville road in now passable for cair travel to the top of the mountain on the Ephraim side, with the exception of a tree that has fallen in the road below the meadows, which could be removed with little effort. |