The Mena weekly star., 1908-01-30
FOREST GUARDS
 ARE APPOINTED
]. B. Earl Has District Adjoining City on South and w. A. Garner
 on North.
GOOD WORDS FOR MENA
Supervisor of Forest Service Record Says He Hopes to Have Head
 quarters Here Soon.

of Forest Service, was in Mena Thursday and announced the ap- pointment of J. B. Earl, as forest guard for District No. 6, which is situated south and east of Mena.
 With Mr. Record was w. A. Garner of Dardanelle, who has received an appointment as guard for District No. 2, lying north and east of Mena.
 MT. Earl is a we'll known young school teacher in this county, having been principal of the Acorn schools, and MT. Garner has been carrying mail on rural route out of Dardanelle for seven years. They are both fine young men and bear splendid reputa- tions.
 | MT. Earl's territory comprises something near 100,000 acres, beginning in the mountains inn mediately south of Old Dallas and running east along that range into Montgomery county to be- youd Slatington.
 Mir. Gamers district, comprls ling about the same amount of land, begins with the high range that includes Rich Mountain and the high mountains immediately north of Mena and extends abou, to the east line of the county. 1 In all there are six districts in that portion of the forest reserve on this side of the Arkansas river, Each district has oue guard appointed atthis time, and later these guards will be called upon to pass civil service ex-
 animation, which will give them appointments as forestrangers. | It is their duty to station them selves on their respective districts
 and with the cooperation of the settlers therein and by patroliug
 the territory, prevent forest fires,
 the unla awful destruction of tim. Der, and protect the bona fide
 homesteaders against those who
 attempt to take possession ol
 valuable lands or timber and at
 the same time evade the home stead laws. It is their duty to oversee the selling of the matured
 timber and at the same time pro-
 tect the young growth. They are officers of the law with power to arrest, call on citizens of their district when needing help to
 fight fires, or for other cause. They are not game wardens, but
 are to cooperate with the state
 authorities iu the enforcement of
 the game laws.
 To enable the rangers to estab-
 fish themselves on their districts the government sets aside tract
 of land on which a home IS built and farm and garden space al- ' lowed as needed. It is also under . stood that these headquarters of the rangers will be connected
 with the outside world and other
 portions of the district with road
 and telephone system.
 Supervisor Record is very much interested in Arkansas new for
 est reserve and probably during the coming session of circuit court will deliver au address in
 Mena, giving the people better idea of the objsct of forming
 national forests.
 Mir. Record is also very much
 interested in Mena. With Mrs. Record he spent several weeks ip Meua last summer, and said to a representative of Tho Star while in Meua that he would rather live here than any place he ever visited. He said he very much desired to have his headquarters , here but owing to the fact that there is no forest reserve north of
 the Arkansas river ss large as this one, it IS necessary that he
 should have his headquarters al
 Fort Smith. but 1t is his opinion that before long the two sections i will be separated and then Mena ? would be the headquarters for the !, forest smith of the Arkansas