Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-11-27
FORESTRY
ORGANIZATION
Officials and Clerks
at Albuquerque
Headquarters
PERSONNEL IS DESIGNATED
Large Force to Arrive from
Washington on Decem-
Der First.

Washington Nov. 27.--The names
of the 377 foresters, clerks and stenog-
raphers who are to make up the per-
sonnet of the United States Forest
Service headquarters OF the six dis
tricts into which the national forests
have been divided have just been an
nounced. The district foresters' Of
fees. located in Denver, Colo; Ogden.
Utah; Missoula, Mont; Albuquerque,
n. NJ; San Francisco, Cal, and Port
land, Ore, will open on December ].
The new field organization of the
Forest Service will greatly facilitate
| the use of the national forests by the
people. 1t will mean that the national
forest business which formerly was
transacted in Washington will be han
died by officers on or near the ground.
The establishment of the district head
quarters is the elimination Of pan
| towards which the Forest Service has
been working steadily, since it took
| charge of the national forests.
Each national forest district will be
in charge of district forester The
work at district headquarters will be
distributed among four offices, Opera
tion, Grazing, Silviculture and Prod
uets, each equipped with men Of spe-
cal training for the work of their Of
| flee.
| The Office of Operation will be
charged with responsibility for the
protection of national forests, for the
building of roads, trails and other per-
manent improvements upon them, for
| the organization of the force on ma
tional forests, and with the supervision
of all business relating to the special
use of national forest resources. The
office of Silvicuture win have super
vision of the free use and sale OF
timber from national forests, forest
planting upon them, and will conduct
forest studies on national forests as
we'll as in cooperation with private
owners in the district. The office or
Grazing will supervise grazing bust
ness in the district, except for the
actual fixing of allowances, periods
and rates, and will make studies look
ing to the Improvement of the forage
crop on national forests. The Office OF
Products will make both independently
and in cooperation with private own
ers. studies leading to more proflt-
able use of timber on and off national
forests within the district and to thelr
preservative treatment,
From the district foresters down the
personnel of the district Offices is made
up of men picked for their proved ca
pacity, for their thorough training, and
for their experience in the West. Most
of them are men who not only have
worked in the West after they en-
, tered in the service, but who lived in
the West before they took up the Gov
ernment forest work. Many of them
are men who formerly We're employed
4 on the national forests and have been
d promoted to larger responsibilities as
result Of their high efficiency. The
+ personnel of the District No 8, includ-
/ ing Arizona, Arkansas. New Mexico
and Oklahoma, with headquarters at
u Albuquerque, is as follows:
A. C. Ringland, district forester; y.
H. C!app, assistant district forester;
A. C. Waha, chief, Office of Operation;
Il r. G. Wilson assistant chief; 3. n.
J Jones. chief engineer; Hugh H. Harris,
/ chief, section of Occupancy; Oliver G.
: Phillips, claims clerk; Mrs. X. M. RI
! lev and G. Griffin, settlement clerks;
q w. D. Wheeler, uses clerk; ]. J. Duff
g fy, fiscal agent; William Rose, A. Nor
= ris. Miss NJ. L. Hobgood and Mrs. b.
i ". Steely, accounts clerks; w. B. Bun
y ton, chief, section Of maintenance;
I Miss Mary Latimer, file clerk: Miss
Cornelia Glase, assistant file clerk:
Mrs. Ruth Harris, mail clerk; E. r.
Thompson. Chas. H. Freyer and Miss
{ Helen B. Smith, craftsmen.
J,I X Campbell, Chief, Office OF
v Grazing: John Kerr, Assistant Chief;
n Miss Zuleika Folder, Clerk.
nj Hugh H. Harris is in Santa Fe now
d and was formerly supervisor of the
d Manzano and Mount Taylor Reserves.
nj The following have been assigned to
e the stenographic work in this district:
II Misses Ethel M. White, Hilda Rosen-
i quist, Stella Hooper, P. Womack, Laura
M. Holcomb, Carry l.. Hendricks, Sue
Hayward, May Wise, Ermina E. Weav-
! er, Anna Mellan, Eva Z. Gay, Lillian
. Z. Wessler, Mabel Berry, Hattie Field
i er, Lena A. Daniels, and Marguerite
q L. Waters.