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Show Forest Notes The Ephraim-Orangeville telephone tele-phone line is again in operation after having been out of service for about ten days. Ranger Anderson An-derson reports that three breaks in the line between the Seely Creek barn and Olsen Canyon have, been repaired. The Emery-Mayfield telephone line is out between Mt Baldy and Clay Springs. It is hoped this line will be put in serviceable ser-viceable condition in the next few days. Ranger Anderson has completed the enclosure on the browse study area in Lower Joes valley. This project is one of the study plots the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station is establishing. es-tablishing. Mr. E. W. Nelson, the assistant in charge of the Experiment Sta tion, east of Ephraim, reports work progressing satisfactorily on a number of study enclosures they are constructing east of Ephraim. Ranger Cox reports that the read work in Twelve Mile Canyon will be completed by the end of the present week, as will also the work in Six Mile Canyon. The Manti Canyon road work has been completed for some time. The lower section of the Ferrou Canyon road has been completed under the supervision of Ranger Williams. Work on the Link Canyon Can-yon road has been partly completed. The funds contributed by the County as well as the Forest Service Serv-ice on the latter project will be expended by June 15 Stockmen report that during the past winter a number of elk have wintered on the west side of the mountain in the head of Six Mile, also on some of the range In tht head of Manti Canyon. Because of the open winter, deer are considerably con-siderably more numerous in the vicinity of Ephraim, Spring City and other Sanpete Valley towns than usual. Many of the deer wintering here the past winter are those, perhaps, that have heretofore hereto-fore drifted into Joes Valley and Twelve Mile after the snow became deep. Ranger Anderson reports that water on the north and south Horns is scarcer than it has everj been at this time of the year since j he has been on District Number 4. The herders in charge of the cat-1 tie are finding it difficult to take care of their stock on certain parts of the range because of the shortage short-age of water. Mr. Horace W. Sheley, who is measuring the water in the head of Becks, Seely and Bear Creeks, called at the Supervisor's office on May 26. He stsated that while the snow cover was light for the watershed, the runoff had varied from 25 to 125 second feet per day. The runoff in Ephraim Creek has surprised the people by exceeding their expectations. Mr. Sheley is of the opinion that because of the fluctuations between the amount of flow at different times in tht day when measurements are made, that therrmograph readings would be much more reliable than the one reading a day made for some of the different streams. Ranger OlTerton has completed the maintenance of the Lake Fork road in which Utah County coop-crated coop-crated with the Forest Service in providing the funds. |