| Show The mangy disease of scables or sheep scab had run rampant throughout the west This was caused byparasitic nite that burrows under the skin and causes massive scabrious lesions or scabs This could be controlled by dipping the infected sheep insolution containingchemical fatal to the mites We used Kreso dip inwater solution to do the job The dip also Killed sheep ticks which live on blood they suck from sheep through their barbed proboscis Sheep-dipping was big business in the early 1900because scabies was so widespread Several other dipping corrals were located on and around the Manti Forest area and hundreds of others were distributed over all the ranges where sheep were grazed throughout the western states In May 1904 Animal Inspector Haniwalt of the Department of Agriculture madetrip to the Manti Forest He ordered that all sheep must be dipped each year before they could enter the Manti Forest Reserve for grazing This included more than 200 000 sheep which were allowed to graze on the Manti Forest at that time Most sheep had been dipped before then but many sheep owners resented the direct order to dip their sheep Most sheepmen agreed to dip but some who refused to comply with Inspector Haniwaltorder were expelled from grazing on the Forest The Fish Creek dipping corral was located at the mouth of Canyon on Fish Creek innorthern part of the Manti Forest All of the sheep herds ranging in the vicinity were dipped in turn by prearranged schedule As they trailed to and from the corral the location of each herd was marked by the clouds of dust they raised The unaccustomed trailing resulted in several of the herds getting mixed with others which made it necessary to corral and separate the mixed herds The improvements includedlarge log corral with several pens which led intotapering chute then to the sunken wooden dipping vat with two drain pens at the end and two large log cabins onebunkhouse for the crew and the othercookshack and cookquarters Two large open rectangular iron tanks were mounted on stone abutments high enough so log fires underneath could heat water for the dipping ditch aroundsidehill brought water from and to ill the dipping vat Canyon for use of the camp waste pond below the vat was designed to impound the used dipping solution to keep it out of the creek and prevent pollution -100 |
