Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-26
Announcement Made of the
Personnel of Forces
Which viii Come
to the West
OFFICE WILL OPEN
BY DtCENB;R FIRST
A Total ef 377 FUrSeSterS. Clerks
and StcnogrdphtrS will Leave
Washington this Week
for new Offices
In the West

Washington, Nov. 26.-The names
of the 377 foresters, clerks. and stem
ographers who are to make up the
personnel of the United States forest
service headquarters Jf the SIX dis
tricts into which the national fores s
have been divided, have just been an
nounced. The district foresters' Of
fices, located in Denver. Colo., Og-
den, Utah, Missoula, Mont, Albu-
querque, n. M, san Francisco, Cal,
and Portland, Ore, will open on De-
cember /.
The new field organization OF thu
forest service will g.eatly fac litate
the use Of the national forests by the
people. 1t win mean that the ma
tional forest business which form rly
was transacted in Washington VIII b.
handled by officers on or near the
ground. The establishment Of the dis
trict headquarters is the culm nation
of a plan towards which the forest
service has been working stead ly
since it took charge of the national
forests.
Each national forest district will be
in charge of a district forester. The
distribute d among four offices, oper-
alton, grazing, s.lvicu ture and prod
ucts, each equipped with men of spe-
cial training for the work of their
office.
The office of operation will De
charged with responsibility for the
protection of national forests, for the
building of roads, trails and other
unOn th arn
for the organization of the force on
national forests, and with the super
vision of all bus n SIS relating to the
special use of national forest re-
sources. The office of silvicul ure
will have superv son of TIE free use
and sale of timber from national for
ests, forest planting upon IN m, and
will conduct forest studies on nation
al forests as well as in cooper alton
with private owners in the dit let,
except for the actual fixing of allow
ances, periods and rates and will
make studies look ng to the improve
ment OF the forage crop on national
forests. The office of products wiz
make both Independently ana in CO.
operation with private owners, studies
leading to a more profitab use OF
timber on and off national 70 estS
within the district and to their pre-
servative treatment
From the district foresters down
the personnel of the district office
is made up of men pick for the
proved capacity, for their thor ugl
training, and for their experience II
the west. Most Of them a. m W {
not only have worked i'm the west af
ter they entered in the service, bu
who lived in the west before tn
took up the government forest work
Many Of them are men who l.. IN rH
were employed on the nad ma -
csts and have been promoted TO larg
er responsibilities as a result of tn l.
high efficiency. The p rsonnel of th'
district offices, which has just beer
announced. IS as follows;
District 4.
Including Montana, northweste
Wash ngton, northern Idaho, north
ern Wyoming and northwestern Soul
Dakota Headquarters, Mssould
Montana:
w. 3. Greeley, district forester; +
\. Slcox. assistant district forester.
r. II. Rutledge. chief, office of op
Grafton: r. Y. stuart, assistant chief
Up. Martin, ch eff engin er; r.. w
Kramer. and T. L. Day. engineers: Z
3. Quiggle, chief, section of occupan
cy; p. ]. o Rren, claims clerk; j. e
Keach, settlement clerk; {. Q. WI.
hite, uses clerk; II. l. Loving, tiscd
agent; o. NJ. Weld, ]. A. Urbanowei2
Miss Grace NJ. Curtin ana p. $. Gray
accounts clerks; r. L. Campbell chi
section of maintenance; Miss Belle G
Warren, Miss LYDIA jacob, Miss j. l.
Farnsworth, clerks; Gordon Gupti
II. F. Tr.pp and Mrs. L. II. Bryan
craftsmen.
G. II. Adams, chief, office Of graz
ing; w. S. Perrine, assistant chief
Miss B. Todd, clerk.
w. r. Wheaton, chief. office
products; f. /. Rockwell, ass stan
chief; Miss Eva Slocum, computin
clerk. A. w. Cooper, chief Office O
silviculture: d. T. Mason, assistar
chef; f. J. Terry chi'f. section O
planting; W. NJ. Aiken, law officer;
]. Humeston, assistant law officer .
r. Preston, ]. d. Warner ]. A Fit7
Sator, G. p. Macdonald, K. w. Wool
ward, w. b. Piper, L. s.. Murphy ,
St ]. Penedict. E. d. Fletcher an
p. r. Hicks, forest assistants; F.
SAlzman, A. j. Norton and w, T. Cot