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Show Forest Notes U. S. Swartz, logging engineer foi Region 4, spent from August 19 t,. August 9 on the Manti Forest. During his visit ttie prop sales in B.'b Wright and Huntington Can-y Can-y n arid the saw mill operations in Ivuck Woodward, Crandall, Lake, E.jdcr, and Gunnison Valley were inspected. This is Mr. Swartz's first visit to the Manti Forest and it is hoped that his many good suggestions sug-gestions will assist local officers in their forest management problems. It will scon be fifty years that Mr. Swartz has spent in timber work. During this period he has workjd in ever state in the Union but two and Mexico and Canada also. During the past summer, while the rams have been unusually heavy, hea-vy, the west and north sides of the Manti Forest have suffered less from floods than usual. In Twelve Mile Canon floods arising largely on the bare hillsides did some damage to the road. High water also came down irom practically every canyon can-yon but not in sufficient quantities to do any great damage. On the east side of the Forest, however, in Hutington, Cottonwood and Ferron Canons, heavy floods did much damage to roads, bridges, irrigation works, etc. Seven bridges went out on the Huntington Canyon Road, also a section of the Ephraim-Or-angeville road in Straight Canyon, besides irrigation works and diverting di-verting dams in all the canyons during dur-ing the storm period. In Huntington Hunting-ton Canyon mud slides came down Flood Canyon completely blocking the road at that point. On the Emery county side of the mountain, disastrous floods came from the east face of the high plateau lying west of the valley. Ranger Williams Wil-liams reports that the storms were unusual in that they started in the steep, rough side hills along the east side of the Forest and followed up the streams in a north easterly direction. Usually the storms were in the nature of a cloudburst, so that the vegetative cover was unable to hold the water back. A study is being made to determine whether or not lmpropere graxing of some of the areas was responsible for the unusually heavy runoff. Local Forest officers are arranging arrang-ing to put on an exhibit at the Sanpete San-pete County Fair which will be held at Manti on September 10, 11 and 12. Stockman from Emery County report that their losses from larkspur larks-pur poBcning have been unusually-heavy unusually-heavy this season. In view of the fact " that forage conditions a;e thought to be better than average for the Manti, we are unable to account ac-count for the heavy losses sustained by the stockmen. |