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Show Forest Service Has Operated 25 Years The 25th aniversary of the organization organ-ization of the Forest Service will be celebrated on February 1, 1930. The Manti has one ranger who had two year's service under the old Bureau of Forestry prior to the Forest organization on February 1, 1905. Another of the Manti officers entered the Service the year following, fol-lowing, or in 1906. There are quite a number of men in District 4 who were in the Service 25 years ago. Professor T. G. Taylor, of the Utah State Agricultural College forestry department, has made inquiry in-quiry as to what success has re-, suited, from the reseeding experiments experi-ments conducted on the Manti Forest by grazing permittees. Tha work, however, was inaugurated too recently to show up to good advantage ad-vantage at this time. Another year results should be apparent to the careful observer. Results from the sowing of rye on denuded ranges rang-es are very noticeable the first year. At the higher elevations, however, rye does not reseed itself and must 1)0 sown annually. Its principle value, therefore, is found in its ability to thrive on badly overgrazed 'Teas where the soil is loose. Here it acts as a soil binder and no -loubt contributes to the building up of the soil. Report on this work wlil be made some time' before the opening of the next grazing season. sea-son. Report reached the Supervisor's office late Saturday afternoon to the effect that Seth Ollerton, father fa-ther of Ranger S. H. Ollerton, had died on Friday, January 24, of ailments ail-ments incident to old age. Mr. Ollerton was born in England, bui, came to Utah when quite young. He was a veteran of the Black Hawk War. His remains were taken to Sterling for burial. The Manti officers extend their sympathy sym-pathy to Ranger Ollerton. According to State Forester Gen-eaux, Gen-eaux, the Chinese elm has been found to thrive on alkaline soils better than most any of the other trees. Mr. Geneaux is making a special project of wood lot plantings plant-ings for 1920. He is also making a study of tree planting along Federal highways throughout Utah. Any one interested in farm wood lots can secure expert advice on the species of trees best adapted to his localit by communicating with Professor Pro-fessor Geneaux a the Utah State Agricultural College. In connection connec-tion with his forestry program, the State Forester is organizing Forestry For-estry and 4-H clubs. It would seem that now is an opportune time for the planting of trees wherever this can be done without interfer-! interfer-! ?nce with the production of other i agricultural crops. Under the j provisions of the Clarke-McNary Mow. trees for such planting will be j lurniihed practically free just as j soon as the nurseries for growing - t!r; stock are placed on a produc-; produc-; ing basis. Supervisor Humphrey returned from a short detail to the District Office in Ogden on . January 27th. The Manti rangers are in the Supervisor's Sup-ervisor's office this week revising their work plans, preparing allotment allot-ment estimates, and making adjustments adjust-ments in ranger district boundaries boundar-ies as are necessary to take up one ranger district, because the Manti ranger force will be reduced one man this year. Last Saturday, January 26, Bud Sorensen of the Biological Survey picked up the tracks of a mountain lion in the mouth of Excel canyon. The dogs took the tracks and when Mr. Sorenson overtook them they had a large female lion in a tree, just over the top of the Levan side of the mountain. Other old tracks have since been seen and Mr. Sorensen Sor-ensen is on the job yet looking for more lions. Reports from the men who have been riding in the foot hills are to the effect that the snow is approximately approxi-mately 3 feet deep at the lower edge of the aspen. Timber men from Manti who have been working work-ing up in Manti canyon report from 3 to 4 feet of snow under the Lemon bench. At the present time, however, the snow is extremely extreme-ly light and the water content is thought to be below normal. Snow measurements will be made by Ranger Ran-ger Thursby the latter part of this week or the first of next. Ranger Merrill Anderson reports he snow as unusually heavy in Lower Low-er Joes Valley. He reports also that the elk have' come down and destroyed a considerable part of the hay on the farms and ranches. They were particularly destructive to baled hay, which they hooked md scattered all over the yards. It seems next to impossible to fence against these animals. The Service Bulletin under date of January 6, has this to say about big trees: "Within the past 3 years there has been discovered in the holdings of the Little River Redwood Company, Com-pany, Crannell, Humbolt County, California, a redwod tree (Sequoia sempervirens) with the following dimensions: diameter at a point five feet above the ground, outside the bark, 20 feet; inside the bark. 18 feet 2 inches; lumber scale, 14 logs, 361,366 M feet B. M. The top ! diameter, inside bark, where the I tree was logged off, was 12 feet 6 inches." The author of this article. ar-ticle. Mr. C. L. Hill, quotes other foresters claiming that heights of 400 and 500 feet which are frequently frequent-ly made for Australian sucalypts are erroneous; that the tallest trees found in 1888, when prizes were of-i of-i fered for the biggest tree found in ! that continent, was 325 feet. One i measuring 347 feet has been discovered dis-covered since that date. i |