Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-28
WORK IN THE WOODS
Army of Forestry Clerks to Be
Sent West.
LEAVE HERE DECEMBER |
Foresters, Clerks and Stenographers
Make Up Party Of 1856.
MEANS PROMOTION FOR MANY
Salaries to Be Fixed to Suit the Cost
of Living in Far West
ern States.
LEAVE HERE DECEMBER l
MEANS PROMOTION FOR MANY

To officer and man the new field head
quarters of the forest service which nave
been established in Missoula. Mont: Den
yer, COL; Albuquerque. n. NJ; Ogden.
Utah; San Francisco. Cal. and Portland.
Ore. 365 foresters, clerks. stenographers
and other employees will leave Washington
December 1. About 200 employees will re-
main here. including the chief forester,
his official staff and clerical and other
employees of his office.
The party which will depart for the
several western headquarters will include
about 40 women and from 50 to 20 add
ministrative officers.
The greater part of this force Is made
up of employees who have heretofore been
permanently stationed in this city, includ-
ing many District people. Their travel
ing expenses will be paid by the govern
ment and their salaries, which will range
from 500 to s., 400 a year. will be rear
ranged to meet the situation, and mean
a promotion for many of the employees of
the lowest grade.
1t is said that inquiries have already
been made in the several cities mentioned
to ascertain the cost of living to the en-
ployes, so that they will know just what
the change means to them before their
departure. The salaries to be paid. which
to be about the same as those paid to en-
ployes of the same character and grade
already employed at the District head
quarters.
All Pleased With Prospect.
The employees of the forest service
have been aware for some time past that
this change was likely to occur and have
been preparing for it. There have been
about fifty transfers of clerks to other
departments. some by way Of exchange.
who did not care to leave Washington;
but 1t was stated at the local head
quarters today that the rank and file OF
those detailed to go are pleased with the
prospect
If it shall be found by experience that |
the salaries to be paid are inadequate, 1t |
is said a new adjustment will be made; |
but any action in this direction is. of !
course, subject to the limitations OF the |
appropriations made by Congress NO |
new employees will be taken from the |
outside. nor will the expenses of the new |
districts be permitted to exceed materi- |
ally the present outlay at the Washing
ton Office.
The object of establishing the district |
headquarters is to bring the official ma
chinery of the service in closer touch |
with the things and people with which it |
has to deal. and Is said to be an applica- |
tion of business methods to plainly |
The district foresters in charge will be |
as follows:
District /. w. B. Greeley, Missoula.
Mont: district 2. Smith Riley. Denver.
querque. N. M: district 4. Clyde Leav-
lit. Ogden, Utah: district S. F. E. Ohm
sted, San Francisco. Cal; district 6, e.
T. Allen, Portland, Ore.
Under these officers and at their sew
eral headquarters will be transacted |
hereafter the greater part Of the routine |
administrative business connected with |
the several districts which has hereto |
fore been attended to in Washington.
Foresters and Chiefs.
At the head of each office there will be |
a district forester and an assistant dis |
trict forester. Under these will be ex-
perts in charge of the various lines Of |
work. A chief of grazing will have
charge of range matters. A chief of |
products will handle the preservativV |
treatment of timber and strength tests
and study market conditions. A chief of |
lands will look after such matters as |
land examinations. The office of lands |
deals with questions involving the valid |
ity of claims asserted under the public |
land laws. applications for special use of |
the resources of the national forests, |
changes in boundaries of forests and the |
examination Of lands applied for under |
the act of June II. 1906 for agricultural |
There will also be in each district |
chief of silviculture, who will have |
charge Of timber sales. planting and sill |
vical experiments. and a chief of opera |
ton. The latter will supervise the per-
sonnet of the forests the permanent i'm |
provement work, through an engineer in |
charge: the accounts of the district in |
Guiding receipts. disbursements and book |
keeping which will be directly supervised |
by an expert accountant, and the routine |
business of the district. |
In Hands Of Specialists.
In each Of the lines of work the man.
agement will be in the hands of a man |
who is a specialist and who has had |
thorough experience both in the west and |
in Washington. The establishment of |
these field districts will bring the service |
into more immediate touch with the pub |
lie. 1t is merely the completion of the |
movement. started some time ago, to have |
the forests administered as far pos
sible by men actually on the ground
The change will not affect the investi- |
gative work of the service. which will |
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