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Show Forest Notes Lumber Prices 1930 A comparison of lumber prices for the third quarter of 1930 with the same quarter for 1929 shows a cu'op oi $7.14 per M ft. for yellow pirn according to information sent cut ;by the Lumbermens Inform e-tion e-tion Bureau. Cedar lumber is only $1.53 cheaper than a year ago. In fact cedar lumber is just a trifle higher now than yellow pine while a year ago yellow pine brought approximately ap-proximately $5.00 per M ft. f. 0. b. cars, than did cedar. Western yellow pine leads in tht toial amount sold, with Douglas Fiv second and spruce third. Cedar Ce-dar brought the highest price f. o. b. the cars, spruce second, Western yn'low pine third, while White fh brought the lowest prices. The above figures are for the Spokane district. Forest Officers Return Our genial Forest Clerk, - S. S. Van Bcskirk, returned to the Supervisor's Super-visor's Office on December 1 aftei a tv.'O month's detail to the Kaibab Fewest where he acted as special deputy fiscal agent and sold Government Gov-ernment permits to deer hunters. His headquarters for the greater part of the time were at Ryan. Def inite figures will be submitted later by the officers of the Kaibao Forest For-est as to the number oi deer killed. Ranger Thursby, who has been in chi-rge of the hunting camp at Big SeuU-.lr. returned to his headc,uar-ers headc,uar-ers ?l Ephraim on December 2nd. Both officers report having had a very interesting trip. However, they are glad to gee back home to jajh up with their woric. Snow Measurements Supervisor Humphrey was at the Experiment Station on Novembjr UJ. The maximum temperature reocided during the month of November No-vember was 41 degrees, while the minimum temperature re.; ..rded was 3 degrees above zero. The snow in adjacent timber was slightly slight-ly deeper, while on south facing it was less than the figures above given. giv-en. Road Open The road to the Huntington Coal Mine is again open to travel. Coal haulers are taking the coal practically prac-tically as fast as it can be mined. Road Improvement The local road man, Louis Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, has had a crew of men making some very much needed improvements on the Ephraim-Or-angeville Road between Ephraim and the forest boundary. Some narrow points have been taken off and some sharp curves widened so that the road is now much safer for travel than it has been heretofore. hereto-fore. Game On November 24, P. C. Peterson. Jr., Representative elect from Sanpete San-pete County, Randall Turpin, rep-lesenting rep-lesenting the State Fish & Game I Department, Messrs. L. D. Larsen and A. J. Christiansen, representing the Gunnison-MayXield Cattlemer.s Association, Forest Ranger Ed. P. Cox of Manti and Ivan Dyring of Potts. Nevada, and Supervisoi Humphrey rode over a portion ol the Twelve Mile cattle range tc ascertain just what effect the recent re-cent open season on deer had on the total numbers grazing in that locality. In making the trip a part of four sections was ridden over and while deer tracks were fairly numerous over most of the area visited, the party was fortunate in seeing only 47 head of deer during the ride. From the number of tracks seen a much larger number of deer should have been seen. Comparative Rainfall For 1929-30 In checking over the precipitation for the various weather observation stations within and adjacent' to the Manti Forest, some interesting variations vari-ations are shown. At Emery ir 1929, for the months of April to October inclusive, a total of 3.49 inches only was recorded, while for 1930 it was 8.61 inches. At Price the total for 1929 for the same period per-iod was 8.02 inches, while for 1930 it was 8.37 inches. At the Great Basin Experiment Station for 1929 the total was 10.45 inches, while for 1930 it was 17.10. At the Alpine Station, which is on top of the mountain, the total for 1929 was 8.91 inches, while for 1930 it was 9.98. At the Oaks Stations juot above the forest boundary, for 1929 the total was 8.72 inches and for 1930 was 11.49. At Manti for 1929 the toal was 6.43 inches and for 1930 was 9.71. It would appear that the figures for the Alpine Station Sta-tion are unreliable. This is due, it is thought, to the fact that the rain in falling is driven by the wind missing the container, since it does not seem probablt that there would b'l nearly double the rainfall at the Experiment Station that there is on top of the mountain. It seems probable also that there has been a much heavier rainfall on the tcp of the mountain than there was at the stations in the valleys on either side of the forest. Western Cattle Marketing Association Enters Utah The Western Cattle Marketing Association, a cooperative enterprise enter-prise for the orderly marketing of cattle on the coast markets, has signed up a large number of Utah feeders and provided a field man to work with the feeders in Sanpete, Sevier, Utah, Wasatch, and Millard Counties. This year the Association Associa-tion secured 470 new members, is now operating in six states and has been recognized by the Federal Farm Board. Another year it is hoped that practically all of the state of Utah will be represented by this organization, and that through the orderly marketing of the livestock, live-stock, better prices will be securc-d fcr stock owners and feeders. Boundary Survey Fcrest officers, Humphrey, Anderson Ander-son and Young spent November 12 to 15 in locating the forest boundary boun-dary in the vicinity of Bob Wright. On November 17 because of the deep snow, the boundary wotc wa.-. discontinued. Approximately 14 inches of snow covered the ground on that date and they left in the truck led by a team as far as- Coal City, from which point the road has been broken. Brush Burning , Buish burning on the areas from which props have been cut in Huntington Hunt-ington Canyon and Bob Wright is now going on under the supervision of Forest Guard Lee Young. Mr. foung reports that the timber op-orators op-orators in Huntington are about ready to close down operations for the winter. The country from where the timber is being taken is so steep that after snow falls the worn is dangerous for both men and horses. |