The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-06
SEVEN new men
FOR SERVICE
Especial to Silver State News

OGDEN, July 6.--Of the forty-seven
young graduates of the nine American
forest schools who have just received
appointments as forest assistants in
the administrative districts of the for
est service, seven have been assigned
TO positions in this district. The names
of these new appointees and the schools
from which they are graduated in for
estry are as follows: s. S. Stewart,
r. w. Taylor and C. b. Morse, of Mich
igan; Rudolph Diehenbach, of Balti-
more; William Winter, of Yale; John
E. Ingram, of Pennsylvania and f. j
Rdyer, of Minnesota These men have
secnred their appointments as result
of passing the regular civil service
examination, which is the only avenue
of employment as a forester under the
government.
Forest assistants are men who have
completed their preliminary training
for the profession of forestry, as the
graduates of law or medicine have com
pleted theirs, and are ready to enter
upon practical work. Until they have
gained experience. however, their po-
sitions are necessarily subordinate.
They are at the foot of the ladder and
must prove their fitness to mount
higher. The government pays them
ST. 900 a year at the start.
On the national forests the forest
assistant often acts as technical advis-
or to the supervisors in charge, who
are western men experienced in all
practical matters, out usually without
school training in the science of fores-
try. Or they may be assigned to the
study of some particular problem
which needs to be investigated in the
interest of good forest management.
As forestry means knowingg how to get
the most out of any given piece of
forest land, it calls for studies and ex-
periments, both scientific and practi-
cal, much like those which have to be
made in the interests of good farm
management, and the forest assistant
lis prepared to do valuable work along
this line.
There is growing interest in the
profession of forestry now, and manv
men are asking how to get into it, and
what it promises. Clifford Pinehot,
United States forester, in an address to
the graduating class in forestry at Har-
ward university this year, said:
"The government and the country
need more men trained in the knowl-
edge of forestry, and it offers oppor-
tunity TO make mans life loom large
and to count for much among the many
phases of human endeavor. To be a
good forester man should combine
something Of the naturalist with good
deal of the business man, To know
how to use the forest he must be able
to study 1t, He must have, therefore,
the power of observation, fondness
for nature and the ability to penetrate
her secrets. He must be resourceful,
able to stand by himself, willing 70 y
dergo the privations of rough life and
capable of commanding the respect OF
rough men, who quickly recognize
verility and genuineness of character
but will not tolerate pretense or the
assumption of superiority A forester
should be sound in mind and body and
should make the fullest college prepa-
ration for the service. This service
means free, vigorous life in the open
air. and a clear, straight, fine, whole
some manly condition Of life.