The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-08
OGDEN MADE THE
HEADQUARTERS
"Convenience and Economy of
Living" Said to Be Greater
Than in Salt Lake.
SIX DISTRICT FORESTERS
CLYDE LEAVITT WILL BE IN
CHARGE IN THIS DISTRICT.
SIX DISTRICT FORESTERS
(snecial to The HeraId.l

N0ICNidA " "a IAttoidJ
Washington, Oct.(7.-The district for
esters who will be In charge of the six
field districts Of the forest service, be-
ginning Jan. 1, 1908, have been selected
by United States Forester Clifford Pin
chot. They are as follows: District 1,
W. B. Greeley. MissOula. Mont; dis
trict 2, Smith Riley, Denver, Colo; dis
trict 8, A. c. Ringland. Albuquerque,
N. M; district 4, Clyde Leavitt. Ogden.
Utah; district 3. F. E. Olmsted. San
Francisco, Cal; district 6, E. T. Allen,
Portland, Ore.
1t was the original intention to locate
the headquarters of district 4 at Salt
Lake. The change to Ogden was made
on account of advantages as regards
convenience and economy of living af-
forded by that city.
All the district foresters are men of
technical training n tried practical
ability in forest matters. Most of them
AVE been members of the forest serv-
Ice for several years They have risen
in the service through successive pro-
motions. They are familiar with a
tiona forest work. with the west, and
with the western people. Recently they
have been dealing in their daily work
with the technical and business prob
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n more responsible supervision under
the new assignments
The District Foresters.
Mr.. Greeley was born in New York
in 1879, and in 1890 moved to Califor-
mia, which is still his legal residence.
He is a graduate of the University of
California and of the Yale forest
school,, receiving the degree of master
of forestry from the latter in 1904. After
working with the United States geolog-
zeal survey he entered the forest serv-
ice through civil service examination
July l, 1904. His last position was that
of supervisor of the Sequoia national
forest. California.
Mr.. Riley was born in Maryland in
1878 He received his education in the
Sherwood Friends school in Mont
gomery county. and in the public
schools of the District of Columbia. He
entered the forest service as a student
assistant in May, 1900. and has since
held successfully the positions of for
est assistant. forest inspector. forest
supervisor and associate chief of the
office of forest management.
Mr.. Ringiand was born in New York
in 1882. After graduating from the
Montclair High school. he became a
student assistant in the forest service
in 1900. He has since held the posi-
llonS OF ASSISTANT forest expert. forest
assistant, chief Of the office of reserve
boundaries, chief of the section of set
tlement, chief of the Office of lands and
assistant forester.
Utah Chief.
Mr.. Leavitt is a native of Michigan,
where he was born in 1879. He entered
the forest service as a student assistant
in 1903. and has since passed through
the grades of forest assistant, assist
ant chief of the Office of organization
and chief of the office of organization.
Mr.. Olmsted was born in Hartford,
Conn He was graduated from Yale
university In 1894. After following en-
gineering and typographical work. he
spent the year 1S97-9S in the Harvard
graduate school of forestry, n con-
tinued the study of forestry in Ger
many and India in 1898 and 1899. He
was appointed agent in the forest serv-
ice In 1900. Since then he has held the
positions of forest assistant, chief of
the division of products, chief of boun-
DIARIES, chief inspector for the service
and chief inspector for district 5.
Mr.. Allen entered government serv-
ice as a ranger under the general land
office in 1898, the first year that the
reserves" as they were then called,
were under administration. In 1899 he
entered the forest service as a student
assistant and became a field assistant
through civil service examination in
1900. In 1901 he was transferred to the
department of the interior TO become
special inspector OF timber sales and
trespass controversies in the Black
Hills, South Dakota. In 1903 he was
transferred back TO the forest service
when, in 1905, the forests were placed
under the administration of the forest
service, he became assistant chief of
the section of reserve boundaries. In
July of the same year he accepted the
position of state forester of California.
He returned to the forest service in
July. 1906, as district inspector, after
ward called chief inspector, for Ore
gon, Washington and Alaska.