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Show Forest Notes Young Colt-Good Bait Clayton Kofford, trapper for the Biological Survey, found a dead newborn new-born colt near the ranger pasture in upper Joe's Valley. This he carried up into the canyon east of the station and succeeded in catching two coyotes, one bob-cat, and a bear. The bear was caught in a heavy coyote trap by two toes and after getting in the trap climbed a tree and in some way hung itself so that it .was dead when Mr. Kofford found it. Losses From Larkspur Heavy Cattlemen report losses from lark-Gpur lark-Gpur as being much heavier than last year. This is somewhat unusual since it is during rainy weather that losses from this plant usually occur. Sheep And Cattle Do Well Despite Drouth Sheep and cattle have done well on the forest ranges to date. There is a possibility, however, that forage will all be gone and that many of the sheep will have to leave the forest within the next three or four weeks, since our July and August rains have so far failed to materialize. Six Mile Flat Fence Nearing Completion The Six Mile Flat interdistrict fence is nearing completion. The fence, which is log and block, is especially well built of large timbers and should last indefinately. Water Projects Proving Valuable Most all of our 1928 water development develop-ment projects have been completed and due to the low water of the springs and streams are proving of considerable benefits to the stockmen using them. Officers Visitors Drs. Marsh and Clawson, of the Salina Experiment Station, were visitors visit-ors at the Supervisor's Office on Aug. 8. They have been feeding a number of plants that were suspected of killing sheep. The suspected plants, however were found to be non-poisonous. They are now making a study of the Lupine, or wild bean. Eastern Utah Rodeo The Rodeo in Huntington Canyon on August 17 and 18 was a decided success, except that the crowd was considerably con-siderably smaller than the plans provided pro-vided for. District Forester Rutiedge gave a splendid talk at the afternoon meeting on the opening day. During the course of his remarks he called attention at-tention to the situation in Palestine, where climatic conditions should be similar to the conditions here in Utah. However, as a result of its failure fail-ure to practice conservation the country will not support anything like the number of people that formerly inhabited in-habited it. He also made reference to the Yellow River in China, where due to the complete denudation of the forests, the river broke over its banks, cut a complete new channel to the ocean 400 miles from the mouth of the old river and in doing so it destroyed more than one million people. The entertainment provided was all one could wish to see and the committee com-mittee is to be commended for its efforts ef-forts along that line, There is talk of making this gathering an annual affair af-fair and introducing a number of educational ed-ucational features, such as practical demonstrations on livestock Judging, forestry practice, sanitation, etc. Effects Of Lightning On Saturday. August 11, five head of horses were killed with lightning near Pine spring of the Gentry Mountain Two or three of these horses were well bred animals and of considerable value. val-ue. On the 15th a team being used by Andrew Anderson, of Huntington, were killed by lightning in one end of a field while a second wagon was being loaded with hay nearby. The lightning, while doing some damage to livestock, has not started any fires on the Manti Forest so far this season. Long Haul For Logs The Anderson nnd Davidson sawmill in the head of Ephrnim Canyon, is using us-ing trucks to hnul logs from the small scattered patches of timber lying near the top of the mountain within a radius rad-ius of ten miles of the mill. These trucks arc capable of hauling 700 ft. of logs over the Sky Line Drive, one hill of which has a maxium grade of better than 15 percent. A good team is able to haul about 500 ft. only over this grade. . |