Collection M 080,
Series 1.4: |
Years these logbooks were created: 1917-1928.
Marilyn Brown, volunteer for the San Juan Mountains Association, transcribed the 1917-1925 logbooks during 2003-2004. This is a verbatim transcription. Original misspellings, and interpretations or words the transcriber was surmising, are in brackets (for example, [sic] if the misspelling was by the author).
Copyright © 2004 by Fort Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies account. These transcriptions are posted on this website for private or personal research use only, and may not be used otherwise without obtaining written permission from the Center of Southwest Studies. Publication, commercial use, or reproduction of material in physical or digital form requires prior written permission from the Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College. The Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials.
This work is presented in honor of the late Peggy Jacobson, who rescued these logbooks.
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and contents of Series 1.4:
San Juan National Forest Pagosa Ranger District rangers' diaries
/ logbooks, 1917,
1921, 1924-1925, 1928.
The Center of Southwest Studies collection includes archival photocopies of these 15 small diaries or journals of U.S. Forest Service employee Glenn Dalton, Paul D. Irwin, and other forest service rangers stationed in the area just northwest of Pagosa Springs. All were transcribed during the years 2003 and 2004 by San Juan Mountains Association volunteer Marilyn Brown.
Authorship of these journals: Eight of the journals do not mention the name of the ranger(s) who produced them. Five of the journals were written by a ranger named Glenn Dalton, and one by Paul D. Irwin. Theirs are the only rangers' names found in the logbooks, but it is evident that several people were involved (the handwriting is different in the different logbooks). Some of the rangers' supervisors signed in various places, but those signatures are difficult or impossible to read, and they weren't the journal authors at any rate.
Research value of these journals: These are field notes and daily record of work accomplishments at the Pagosa Springs office. They depict the daily duties of rangers in the young United States Forest Service system. These unpublished journals provide a glimpse, not only into the daily activities of a ranger out in the field, but also to their interactions with the individuals who had grazing permits for sheep on the national forest. One of the important aspects of these journals is that they provide the names of sheepherders and on occasion the allotment that they have a permit. This is especially useful for research, because we are aware of no published documents that recount the story of sheep grazing in this national forest and that also provide names of the individuals on specific allotments were found. These journals provide a base upon which further research can be conducted into the personal lives of the sheepherders and more can be discovered about their families and how long they grazed sheep on their allotments.
The logbooks were thrown out by the U.S. Forest Service, and were retrieved by an employee, Peggy Seavy Jacobson, who took them home. They were loaned to the Center of Southwest Studies on 3/10/2003 (accession 2003:03003) and 4/28/2004 (accession 2004:04016) for photocopying onto Permalife Bond paper and transcription. Peggy Jacobson died on January 1 of a heart attack. This work is presented in honor of her. Her daughter-in-law, Sarah Jacobson, is managing the ranger books and agreed to loan them to the Center until the family decides their ultimate disposition.
One of the children of one of the authors of these logbooks also passed away during the time of the work on this project, Donnie Louise Dalton Miller, born in a Forest Service ranger station north of Pagosa Springs on Feb. 3, 1929, was the daughter of Glen [Glenn] Dalton and Pearl Chism Baker. She grew up in the Animas Valley and was a graduate of Durango High School. She was married to Don L. Miller in Farmington on January 1, 1949. Mrs. Miller was stricken by polio on Dec. 13, 1949. She died on February 27, 2004, at age 75, at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, and was buried Hermosa Park Cemetery. She was survived by a brother, John Dalton of Lakeside, Arizona.
Marilyn Brown's notes and suggestions for researchers:
- Check Archuleta County CO Genweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~coarchul/bur_unk.htm (viewed on 12/14/2003) to confirm some of the names from Pagosa area, and also see Colorado Places by County http://www.rootsweb.com/~coyuma/city/city-a.html for place names.
- Unclear words are marked with question marks
- Best guess of abbreviations encountered in these daybooks:: R.S. = ranger station, S&G = sheep and goats, C&H = cattle and horses, M&Sup = mail and supplies, unclass and similar abbrevs = unclassified, canon = canyon
Transcriptions
(folder numbers refer to the Center's photocopies in
Series 1.4 of Collection M 080)
Folder 1: Ranger's logbook, 1917 July 15- Oct. 20.
Folder 2: Ranger's logbook, 1920 April 28 - August 31.
Folder 3: Ranger's logbook of Paul D. Irwin, 1921 June 1- Aug. 31.
Folder 4: Ranger's logbook, 1921 December 1-15.
Folder 5: Ranger's logbook, 1922 September 10-30.
Folder 6: Ranger's logbook, 1924 June 1- 28.
Folder 7: Ranger's logbook, 1924 July 1- 28.
Folder 8: Ranger's logbook, 1924 Aug. 1- Sept. 30.
Folder 9: Ranger's logbook, 1924 December 1- 31.
Folder 10: Glenn Dalton's logbook, 1925 January 1-31.
Folder 11: Glenn Dalton's logbook, 1925 March 1-31.
Folder 12: Glenn Dalton's logbook, 1925 May 1-31.
Folder 13: Glenn Dalton logbook, 1925 June 1- 30.
Folder 14: Glenn Dalton logbook, 1925 July 1- 31.
Marilyn Brown's transcriptions of the diaries:
San Juan National Forest daybook, Pagosa Ranger District, July 15, 1917 – October 20, 1917. Marilyn T. Brown, transcriber, October 2003.
July 15, 1917. Sunday
Phoned to Ralph B. Walker and had him come and go with me to the fire, took saw shovel and an axe but we did not need the saw as the tree had burnt down we dug a trench around it and burnt the limbs that had fire on them cut the snag down that was left and came back it had done no damage. Walker did not want any pay for what he had done.
Fire sup 6
July 16
Rode to Walkers and we went to the timber and marked the timber for a hay shed went from there to John Webbs stayed to dinner and went and marked timber for him and came on back to R.S. while I was over at Webbs I rode up on Pagosa Div to see if I could find where the sheep were but could not find them
S-Sales under ? 6
S ? 2
July 17,
Went down to camp to meet the Rodriquez and Candelaria sheep saw them all and waited to see if there would be any more but there were none came back Keane was at my camp to day. Left R.S. 8.30 a.m.
G – S&G 8
July 18
Rode up the sheep drive to see if there were any sheep but did not see any came back and packed my camp to Bridg [sic] R.S. arrived at 1 p.m. Worked in the office reading over my mail and fileing [sic] way papers
G-S&G 5
HQ 3
July 19
Hitched up team and drove to Pagosa after mail and supplies Left R.S. 9 a.m.
M& Sup 8
July 20
Got supplies and drove to Bridge R.S. arrived ? 5 p.m.
M&Sup 8
July 21,
Worked in office reading over mail and filing away and made up my pack for a trip to the sheep country. rode over after my mail and to get the tent Smith sent out.
M&Sup 2 HQ 6
July 22. Sunday
Packed up and went to Cimarrona R.S. met BA Rodriquez and he told me that Frank Gallegos had stoped [sic] on his range as he went in for several day and had eaten out quite a bit of the lower end went on to Cimarrona and camped left R.S. 1 a.m.
G-S&G 3 ½
July 23
Went over to find Abran Martinez and see if he was located allright, rode all over the range before I found him, plenty of feed but water is scarce. he does not like the place on that account took him and showed him his lines. went over to the fire box at Sand Creek Highline trail and put in funnel and canteen straps and back to Cimarrona R.S.
G-S&G 6 – Fire, pre 2
July 24
Packed up and started for the sheep country. Hunted for Quintana’s camp on Weminuche but did not find it, went on and camped at Ganite [sic] Peak R.S. on Pine river, rained hard most of p.m.
G&S&G 8
July 25,
Started out to go over Bald Mt. Div to find the Kinderman Sheep. on the way I met Pelon ? who has Kinderman sheep and he told me that the sheep that I had been looking for had came [sic] over on his range and they thought it was their range, he had put them back on their range. he is an old man in that country and knows the ranges, and I did not go on as I wanted to work the heads of Weminuche and Williams creek and work that part when I go to Sand creek country, rode back to camp, it was late and storming and stayed over night
G-S-G 8
July 26
Packed up and took in the upper part of Wiminuche [sic] Division the range is very good on the north side of the canons [sic] and the sheep have not got that far up yet went over in the first canon north on the Durango Forest and there met LaFont Forest Ranger of the Rio Grande Forest and we took dinner together, packed up and started for Williams creek and Cimarrona Div, camped for the night on the north end of Cimarrona Div. the range is not very good on this end yet as the snow has not been gone very long and what was there the sheep that went to Rio Grande Forest cleaned it up.
G-S&G. 8
July 27
Packed up and went back and took the continental trail to Williams creek went down and found a bunch of Agustina Lopes sheep could not find herder or camp man but left a note for them to get out and not come back as they were on B.A. Rodriquez range, I had intended to make the Middle Piedra pard [sic] of the range but my horse had lost a shoe and was tender and I did not try it but went on to Cimarrona R.S. the Lopez’s have grazed over the Williams creek part of the range but the second crop is about ready to graze again all of the range is good.
G-S&G 8
July 28.
Went over the lower part of Cimarrona Div. back of Cimarrona R.S. and to Rodriquez sheep camp. the range is very good and the sheep are doing fine. came back and packed up after dinner and went to Bridge R.S. arrived 5 p.m.
G-S&G 8
July 29 Sunday
Saw the Lopez men going back with supplies and went out and asked them why they had gone in that part of the Williams creek that had been given to Rodriquez and they said that they had not been told any thing of it. I think it is an oversight in the Lopez man that came with the sheep in not telling them for I have always found the Lopez outfit willing to do what they were told, they said they would move out as soon as they got up with the burrows [sic]
G-S&G 1
July 30
Tacked on a shoe so I could get my horse to town to be shod, worked in the office the balance of the day, made out seed crop report, plant report for what I had gathered. wrote Fire ? letter to Super. and a list of telephone repars [sic] to fixup phone in good shape. and a letter in place of Service report read and filed away my mail. posted up manual Hoffman phoned and wanted to now [sic] if I had the trails cleaned out I told him I could not get a man up here and I was going to Pagosa to get my horses shod and would look around for a man then, he said I could get one for six weeks if I could find any one of the Trujillo boys came by and wanted more range I told him I did not have any, and asked him if it rained if he could not make out and he said if plenty of rain came he would be all right he thought but there is a little patch along the driveway in a pinch that I can give him.
HQ 8
July 31.
Hitched up and drove to Pagosa after mail and supplies and to get my horses shod. and have the wagon fixed, Left Bridge R.S. 9 a.m.
M&Sup 8
August 1.
Took anual ? in a.m. to go to Shields mill. the wagon would not be fixed until noon anyway and wanted to show him my wifes timber claim drove to Bridge R.S. in p.m.; arrived 5.30 p.m.
Anual 4. M&Sup 4 ½
Aug 2.
Read over and filed my mail. fixed up my outfit and got pack ready to go to the sheep country west.
HQ 8
Aug 3
Packed up and started for the sheep country. Took in the lower part of Little and Big Sand Divs. but there has been no sheep down that low yet and the feed is good camped at Big Sand creek on the river left R.S. 8.30 a.m.
G- S&G 8.
Aug 4.
Went up Big Sand on West side and back to Lone Tree Div took in the lower part to near First Fork and back and camped on Lone Tree did not find Hammers sheep and the feed is good. on the part of Big Sand Div west of the creek the sheep have not used yet
G-S&G 8
Aug 5
Packed up and took in the balance of Lone Tree Div. the upper part has nearly all been grazed but feed is good, found the camp and sheep at the head of the canon but there was no one with the sheep or in camp left a note. rode on into Augh Freo they have not grazed all of the range where I went on the east side of the creek, found a bunch about halfway up the creek, they look very good. And the feed is very good camped for the night
G-S&G 8
Aug 6
Packed up and went over into the head of Mocca creek, found one bunch feed very good and the sheep look very good came back over into the head of Augh freo the sheep have not got to the head of the canon yet and the feed is very [sic] went down to another camp and over into Big Sand creek and camped for the night. the Hatcher sheep that are in charge of Archuleta and the bunch that Bert Roush is in charge of has not been useing [sic] the range in a stockman like manner. The parks above the forks of the creek have not been grazed they are grubed ?, even the big bunch grass is eaten down it looks like they thought that that was the last grass and they wanted to get it all it is good fishing along by these parks and I think they stayed as long as the sheep would live that is the worst abused range since I have been in the service that I have found camped on Big Sand.
G-S&G 9
Aug 7,
Took in the balance of Big Sand below the forks, there has not been any sheep on the west side of the creek and the park along on the east side have not been eaten out like they have above. this is the range the Labota and Spulman uses. But the west side is supposed to belong to Archuleta’s and the sheep Roush is in charge of and the eating out of the parks was all uncalled for came on and camped for dinner of Piedra and on to Bridge R.S. arrived 5.30 p.m.
G-S&G 9.
Aug 8
Since there has been a number asked me when berries would be ripe and if there was going to be plenty of them I rode to some patches that 2 years ago was good down the Piedra on the south side of the river. but the sheep have eaten the vines and there is not patches there any more, came back to R.S.
unclass 8
Aug 9,
my horse was lame and I took of a shoe that was sprung and put it back to see if that was to [sic] cause. had intended to ride cow range but stormed all day and did not go only over to send some mail, read office stuff and read over some things in the files
M & sup 2
HQ 6
Aug 10,
Keane had reported that the Tarce ? sheep were crowding the cow line. I rode over to see about it but they had gone, they had been on the cow range some but not bad the range on that part of Piedra Div is good all but near the fly grounds took in south part of the Div, came back by Keanes and He and Reed were going to ride and I went with them and covered all of Piedra Div east of Middle Fork range is very good on the part away from the stomp grounds but is short around them came back to R.S. one of the Trujillo boys was there when I came and wanted more range I told him I would be over in the morning and look his range over and see if he needed it.
G-C&H 8
Aug 11
Rode over to Rim Rock Div and over it feed is very short, went to the Trujillo camp and I went to show him some range that is at the mouth of Spring creek but the Babcock sheep had got it, came back and let him have a strip on the Twin Butte Div that I gave him last year and on to R.S.
G-S&G 8
August 12 Sunday
Aug 13.
Read over and filed my mail got a horse from Keanes to put in the Cimarrona pasture so my horse would stay and took them up there, the horses feet are bad and I do not want to eat out the pasture at Bridge R.S. came back to R.S.
HQ 2
Unclass 6
Aug 14.
Raked up the station yard. dug a hole and put the cans ant [sic] trash in it, burnt some litter, fixed the gates so they swing better raked up manuer [sic] around barn, put up some harness pegs in barn, put screen on a frame and put it in one window put new screen on one of the doors.
HQ, 8.
Aug 15.
Rode over the Piedra Div. between Williams Creek and Middle Ford. Feed very good only around the stomp grounds the flies are about gone now and the cattle are going back, rode over to Maloys and back of his place and back to R.S.
G-C&H 8
Aug 16
Hitched up and drove to Pagosa after mail and supplies and horse feed. Left R.S. 8.30 a.m.
M&Sup 8
Aug 17,
Hitched up and drove to Bridge R.S. arrived 4.45 p.m. Smith phoned to me and wanted to know if I would go to Pine river after firo ?, I told him to send for the cans and I would have things ready when they came.
M&Sup 8
Aug 18.
Rode to Weminuche to get pack stock to go after fish at Emeral [sic] Lake, after I had got Pattersons burrows I rode over to Abran Martinez range and hunted up his camp to see how he was doing, he has a plenty of range but is very short of water, came back to Bridge R.S.
G-S&G 3.
Fish & Game 5
Aug 19
Sunday the cans for the fish came by a little after noon
Aug 20.
Packed up and went to Weminuche got Pattersons burrows and packed the cans to Pine river and camped for the night, left Bridge R.S. 8 a.m.
Fish and game 9
Aug 21,
Packed up and went to Emerald Lake, on the way I met Ralph Shaw and R.W. Frazier with four burrows loaded with fish, went on to the lakes, when I got there Gansby the hatchery man had put all of the fish in the lake, he said that Shaw and Frazier hat [sic] told him that I would be there on the 18th and he had given me up. he said that there was only about 25000 left anyway, stayed over night at the lakes.
Fish and game 8
Aug 22.
Packed up and started back, camped for the night just below the R.S. on Pine river.
Fish & Game 8
Aug 23.
Packed up and started for Bridge R.S. as I passed the R.S. on pine river Shaw & Frazier came out and they then told me that Gansby had told them Aug 21, that he was going to turn the fish in the lake. came on and left the burrows and cans at Pattersons and on to Bridge R.S. as I passed the fire box on timber hill I seen the seal was broken inspected it and found that there was gone 1 file, 1 gal. oil, 1 pencil, 1 funnel, these things had been taken between July 21, 1917 and Aug 23, 1917. arrived at R.S. 5 p.m.
Fish and game 8.
Aug 24
Cleaned the office furniture and put polish on it. cleaned and oiled the typewriter, took the yard gates off and painted them put shoes on in front on one of the horses tightened up the yard fence, and braces so the gates swung better.
HQ 8
Aug 25
Rode from Bridge R.S. to Weminuche up over the range that Babcock uses Little Sand Div. crossed over and up Little Sand creek and found the Teopito ? Martinez camp and sheep, there is a little range left along the creek that is not used yet. and they can’t use the mesa as there is no water there now and they can not use it if it does not rain, I told them to go down on the face of the mountain between Weminuche and Big Sand creek and use that and if it rained to take the sheep on the mesa. they are not pleased with the change of their range and they can not be blamed as it is not as good a range. and is so near that the sheep want to go back and are very hard to hold and they have lost over 200 head that have cut ? on them and started for their old range. it is just a chance if they get in with another bunch and they get them, I think that if their old range is taken away from them that they should be given one as good, as they are old users. came back to Bridge R.S. the portion of the range that Babcock uses is grazed heavy more so than the Martinez part.
G&CG 8
Aug 26 Sunday
Aug. 27-28-29-30 anual.
Aug 31.
Smith phoned for me to get a horse to put with mine and go and get the fish cans and bring them in ?, got a horse from Shropshire and drove to Weminuche and brought the cans to Bridge R.S.
Fish & Game 5
Sep 1.
Hitched up team and drove to Pagosa and delivered the cans to the depot. Left R.S. 9 a.m.
Fish & Game 8
Sep 2.
Got some supplies and returned to Bridge R.S. arrived 5 p.m.
Fish & Game 5
Sep 3. Labor Day
Sep 4.
Worked in the office filing and reading over mail. went over and looked over the planting area, it is failing each year rode over to the settlement and priced some hay. Walker wanted $11.00 Reed $10.00 Thayer $15.00 ? the hay is good this year, came back and made out report on Piedra Park planting area.
HQ 4
G-planting 2
Forage 2
Sep 5.
B.A. Rodriquez had left a note for me last night and said that Quintana claimed a part of the range given to him below the fire box and wanted me to come up and see about it, rode up the Weminuche and did not find Quintana or Rodriquez camp came back on Williams creek side and hunted for him back of Cimarrona R.S. and did not find his camp. I left a not [sic] for him to give to Quintana with [couple lines of poor photocopy] and came on to Bridge R.S.
G-S&G 12
Sep 6
Hoffman phoned to me that there would be 20 cans of fish in on the night of the 8th and I could have them if I could get a team without any cost rode over to the settlement and got Shropshire team wagon and harness dug out for the gravel walk in front of the house put in a culvert in front of the [unreadable photocopy] did not quite get it finished.
Fish and game 3
HQ 7
Sep 7,
Finished the covering of the culvert and went and got the team and wagon and drove to Pagosa after fish.
HQ 2
Fish and Game 6
Left R.S. at 10 a.m.
Sep 8
[unreadable photocopy] and drove to the livery barn where the fish we [sic] shaken last night, they were in poor shape and two of the can [sic] were nearly all dead, doubled them up into eight cans and took them out after Mr. Heimer helped me to put in ice. got them in and to Bridge R.S. at 3 p.m. Mack phoned to me that if I could get the team again I could have the fish that come in monday night went and seen Shropshire and he told me I could have the team.
Fish and game 8
Sep 9
Sunday as the other fish were in such poor shape by staying over night in town I thought it a good plan to go in today and let the team rest, monday and take the fish out the night they get in. hitched up and drove to Pagosa after fish
left Bridge R.S. 1 a.m.
Fish and game 4 ½
Sep 10-11
Ordered some supplies to take out and was at the office most of the day made arangements [sic] to get ice from Dickerson and have Mack help me load up the fish hitched up team at 5.45 p.m. got the ice and went to meet the fish, train was late and did not get started until 8.15 p.m. started to rain at the school house at the end of the lane ?, did not get to Bridge R.S. until 2.15 a.m. came near going off the grad [sic] twice it was so dark and slick, waited and shook the fish until 5 a.m. and started for Williams creek rained all of the way and the team was not shod and it was all I could do to get up some of the hills and stay on the road in places. got the fish planted 10.30 a.m. and went to Cimarrona R.S. and went to bed after I got some dinner
Fish and game 16 ¾
Sept 12.
Got my horse and went to C.T. Dantzigers to meet Babcock and mark him some timber he was not there when I got there and waited for him. he wanted timber for a sheep bridge we went west of Weminuche but could find no timber that would do for stringers, came back by his camp and found the timber he wanted in north of Dantzigers ranch, went to Abran Martinez sheep camp, he said he was going out the 14th and the same range next year, went over on the lower end of Williams creek Div to find a bunch of sheep that Dantziger had told me were on cow range and were branded R but they could not find any of the men the sheep were gone and I could not find them, went on to Cimarrona and hitched up and drove to Bridge R.S. arrived 7 p.m.
S-sales 3 ½
G-S&G 2 ½
Fish and Game 3
Sep 13
Hoffman phoned to me to bring in the fish cans. made out reports on the fish that I had planted in the Piedra and Williams creek. reported on a water bag that was stolen from the Cimarrona Fire box greased the string wagon and put the cans in it to take to town, made out sale for Babcock and took the fish cans in after dinner. Left Bridge R.S. 1 p.m.
HQ 4
Fish and game 5
September 14,
Got some supplies and drove to Bridge R.S. changed the team onto the borrowed wagon and took the team and wagon home arrived at Bridge R.S. 4.30 p.m.
M&Sup 2
Fish and game 6
Sep 15
Dug out for walks and put in the 2x6 from the south door to south gate, one of Sargents men came and wanted to know the way to his range made him a map and made frame of 2x6 for front walk.
8 Bridge R.S. walk
Sep 16 Sunday
Sep 17.
Took off the shoes and reset them, Dantziger
came by and said there was a bunch of sheep on oak brush hill on the cow range
on Drift Fence Div. I got a lunch and went to see about it, when I got there I
looked all around oak hill but there had not been any sheep on it, there had
been a bunch came down to water in the creek south of the hill but that was
all and they did not get out a little way off of the driveway. rode over by
where
Babcock had cut some timber for his bridge he had not scattered the brush and
I went and told him to get rid of the brush when he got the timber out it was
late and went to Dantzigers and stayed overnight
HQ 4
S&G 4
S-sales 1
Left Bridge R.S. 12.30 p.m.
Sept 18.
Rode over Babcock sheep range above Little Sand creek and on to Bridge R.S. he has plenty of range yet, dug out for walk from back door to woodshed and back gate, and put in the 2x6.
Sheep & Goats 4
Bridge R.S. walks 4
arrived at Bridge R.S. 12 noon
Sep 19.
Went and got a team and wagon and hauled wood
HQ 8
Sep 20.
Took team and went and hauled a load of hay from O.C. ? Reeds, hauled gravel for the walks in p.m.
Forage 4
Bridge R.S. walks 4
Sep 21.
Hauled gravel in a.m. and finished and took team and wagons home
Bridge R.S. walks 8
Sep 22.
Worked in office in a.m. made out expence [sic] account and requisition. Mr. Mareno came by about 1 p.m. and I went with him and showed him where he could hold his sheep for a few days. they are Hatcher sheep and have hoof rot and there is about 300 of them, they want to doctor them before they take them below Smith had phoned me to see if I could find a place for them.
HQ 4 – S&G 4
Sep 23. Sunday
Sept 24.
Made shelves in the granery [sic], made a bin for the Gov. oats and put them in it cleaned out the granery and put the things on the shelves Alva Patterson came and stayed a while and wanted the brands of the Alison cattle and I gave them to him, McCartney came and I sent the tin shears and the torch down to Pagosa with him.
HQ 6. unclass 2
Sep 25
Reset the front shoes on my horse, made up my pack to go and clean out trail, cleaned out trail from R.S. down the canon, it has been cleaned out once this year but is lots of rock in it now.
HQ 4
Piedra canon trail maintenance 4
Sep 26.
Cleaned out trail to mouth of Spring creek.
Piedra canon trail maint 8
Left R.S. 9 a.m.
Sep 27,
Packed up and went to clean out trail feed was eaten out at Big Sand where I intended to camp and I sent on below and made a fence to hold my stock, made camp and cleaned out trail at the starting of the grade below Big Sand creek
Piedra canon trail maintenance 8
Left R.S. 9.a.m.
Sep 28
Cleaned out trail below Big Sand creek
Piedra canon trail maintenance 8
Sep 29.
Cleaned out trail, got it cleaned to the canon just before you round the point into Lone Tree
Piedra canon trail maintenance 8
Sep 30
Sunday came back to R.S. Walter Himes ? was with me while I was down cleaning trail, Supervisor Hoffman and Ranger Mack was at R.S. when I arrived at 9 p.m.
Oct 1,
Supervisor Hoffman and Ranger Mack left this morning and said they would be back tomorrow night, worked in office posted up plan of work for August and September wrote letter of the amount of time put in on improvement work and letter saying I had gathered no plants the past month, read over and filed my mail, rode over to send it in to Pagosa and to get mail that was brought out today
HG 6 M&Sup 2
Read Oct-2, 1917 AFH
Oct. 2
Took up the wire that was around the old garden at the old house, it was down and in bad shape Jack Keane came and stayed to dinner he and the other settlers sold their cattle, $70.00 for dry cows, $45 for yearlings started to put in a culvert between house and barn, Hoff & Mack came back before I got it in
HQ 8
Oct 3.
Hoffman and Mack told me that the Hatcher sheep were on the Snyder part of Twin Butte Div. Rode up over the range on east side of Williams creek there has not been any sheep on the Hatcher part on east side, rode over the Snyder part and they have been over nearly all of it went to the camp and the sheep but did not find any one. rode over to the Abran Martinez range and picked out sites for water holes that could be fixed with a team in about 5 days to hold enough water during the dry season picked out a site for a bridge at upper end of Twin Butte Div that could be built for approximately $50.00 rode down the sheep drive to Piedra river caught the Quintana sheep at mouth of Spring creek, they were on the state land above Spring creek, and I told them they were on R.P. Hotts land and they took them off came on to Bridge R.S. called Hoffman at Yellowjacket and he said to put the Hatcher sheep off Snyders range and give Snyder the unused portion of the Hatcher range on the east side of Williams creek.
G- S&G 8
Oct 4.
Wrote forage letter and letter [sic], and letter about the amount of improvement work done during the past month, made up my pack to go down and clean ? out El Rito Colorow R.S. on Big Sand and find out what to release, got my horse and rode to Williams creek to move the Williamson sheep off of Snyders range, waited for Mareno and we went to move them, but it was to late to get the burrows and move that night and I told him if he would move the first thing in the morning I would let him stay over night, I told him to stay on the west side until there was other arrangements made came back to Bridge R.S.
G-S&G 4 ½
HQ 3 ½
Oct 5
Packed up and went below Big Sand to camp where I had a pasture, cleaned out trail east of Big Sand before dinner in p.m. cleaned out from where I had left off west of Sand to the first canon around the point in Lone Tree. Left R.S. 9 a.m.
Piedra canon trail maintenance 8
Oct 6
Rode up Big Sand to El Rito Colorow R.S. picked out the out the 40 that I thought would be best posted it with metal Form 394, and started back. I noticed that on the west side of the creek that there was quite a stretch of range that there had been no sheep on and the only reason I could see for it was that it was in the timber and a little steep, all of the Hatcher sheep have gone but the Lobato bunches, I told them to go back and get it if they wanted to stay on longer, the balance of the range that I saw was heavily grazed, went back to camp
G-S&G 2
Stations 6
Oct 7 Sunday
came to Bridge R.S. arrived 5 p.m.
Oct 8.
Worked on the culvert between the house and barn and covered it with dirt dug a ditch above it and one each side of it to lead the water to it, grubed ? out the brush for the road and picked out the rock
HQ 8
Oct 9.
Rode over on Williams creek looked over the range and on to Marenoes [sic] camp he got his horse and we went over the range that they had been on of Snyders we then came back and I gave Snyder a part of the Hatcher range as near the as [sic] I could to the size that they had grazed over looked at the Patterson part of the Div but they have not bothered it and came back to R.S. Mareno did not think that they would have enough to last them, range on west side short
G- S&G 8
Oct 10.
Put in some bolts in my spring wagon that were lost, hitched up and drove to Pagosa after mail and supplies, Left R.S. 10 am
HQ 2 M& sup 6
Oct 11,
Done my trading talked to Supervisor Hoffman about the sheep that are on the lambing grounds and what we were going to do with them, loaded up and drove to Bridge R.S. arrived at 5 p.m.
M&Sup 8
Oct 12.
Made out report on El Rito Colorow R.S. Read and stamped my mail, Snyder came and stayed all day and talked about range and sheep did not get to do anything much
HQ 8
Oct 13.
Rode to Snyders camp and I went with him and showed him the range that Supervisor Hoffman said I could give him on the cow range on the lower end of Drift fence Div. we went to see about water but the creeks were all dry and he will have to graze it and water in Williams creek, came back to his camp and had dinner from there I rode over on the Drift Fence Div. the range is eaten of [sic]on the cow range but is very good on the higher parts came back to R.S. stoped at Marenos camp and he told me that Patterson did not want to come back to the lambing grounds and I told him he could have it.
G – S&G 6
G – C&H 2
Oct 14 Sunday
Oct 15.
Got my horse and rode over the cow range from the south east end of Piedra Div cross country to Abraham Davis ranch, stoped and talked to him a while and took in the country south of Carter Park and on to R.S. feed is fair south of Carter Park but is better along the east side of the Div. came by Reed he said he had put out 550# of salt, Davis 550#, Simon Keane 750#,
G 6 H 8
Oct 16,
Rewired and put in the tubes and knobs and went over the telephone, Henry Gorden came and staye [sic] most of the afternoon, made up pack to go to Cimarrona to go over the fire boxes
HQ 8
Oct 17,
Packed up and went to Cimarrona R.S. to go over the fire boxes put in seals in box at forks of road contents O.K. went and looked at the fish that were planted in the Beave [sic] dams they have mostly gone down below the dams. what I could see were doing fine, rode over a part of the cow range east of Williams creek there are but few cattle in on that side and if it comes to a pinch we can put the sheep in there without damage as they can not get cars to ship and no feed below to hold until the cars come. Left R.S. 9 a.m.
pob to pob 3 ?
G- C&H 2 ½
Fish & game 2
Fire prevention ½
Oct 18.
Took from the Cimarrona fire box 1 gal oil, 1 file, 1 funnel and took them to Timber Hill fire box and put a lock on it, one canteen strap was gone, rode from there to box on Sand Creek Heavy? line trail box and put in seals, looked over the Patterson’s June 11 claims nothing has been done Alva Patterson has cut some house logs but has not started to build, came back to Cimarrona, the Alison cow men are gathering their cattle Fred and Alva Patterson are helping
Fire prevention 7
L-claims 1
Oct 19,
Rode from Cimarrona R.S. to fire box on Williams creek put in extra seals, contents O.K. rode on up Williams creek to where I had planted fish last year, looked on down the creek for about ½ mile but could not see any fish but do not think that they died but went down the creek came back to Cimarrona R.S. Rode up north and east of R.S. to see if there had been any salt put on the benches where I had told them to put it but did not find any and there has not been any cattle there to speak of
Fire prevention 4
Fish and game 2 ½
G – C&H 1 ½
Oct 20.
Packed up and went to Bridge R.S. went to Mareno’s camp and he wanted more range I gave him the range that had been cut off for Snyder he wanted to drive out his lambs through the lane and I told him I would see what could be done, he then wanted me to find him more range as they can’t ship until Nov 4 or 5. and I told him I would do what I could for them, rode down over the lower end of the range and they have cleaned it up and have but little feed rode over to see if there was any mail from the office but did not get any. arrived at R.S. 3.30 p.m.
pob to pob 3
S&G 2 ½
M&Sup 1 ½
HQ 1
Simon 750#
Reed 550
Davis 550
Jack Keane
San Juan National Forest daybook, Pagosa Ranger District, April 28, 1920 – August 31, 1920. Author unknown; very legible penmanship. Marilyn Brown, transcriber, July 2004. Interesting tidbits: wolf hunting, see Thursday, May 20ff.
Wed. April 28, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started to work at 8:00 and reset shoes on mare. Then went with Shrop to push cattle back and help him haul wood for the use of his team to haul manure with. hauled wood till 3:00 and then brought team to Station. Had intended to use Norris’ wagon but found Norris and Thayer here after it. Returned to Shrop’s and got wagon and returned to Sta. at 5:00
Fine spring day [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 4 hrs
Imp. (manure) 4 hrs
Thursday April 29, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started to work at 8:00 and hauled manure till noon. Started at 1:00 and hauled manure till 4:00. Then saddled mare and took mail to P.O.
Beautiful day [written in margin]
Imp. (manure) 7 hrs
Uncls’fd 2 hrs
Friday April 30, 1920
Up at 6:00 Started at 8:00 and hauled tin cans away and buried them and hauled manure finishing manure at noon. Started at 1:00 and hauled one load of wood. Then took team back to Shropshires. Returned to Sta. at 5:00.
Very warm and clear [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 4 hrs
Imp (manure) 4 hrs
Sat. May 1, 1920
Up at 5:30. Started at 7:00 for Middle Fork to meet J. Keane. Met Keane at 7:30 and started for Williams Creek. Rode around Toner’s fence and over onto Twin Buttes Div. From there on up Williams Creek to lower end of Drift Fence Div. Keane pointed out the landmarks, driveway and other features of the country. Cattle are contented and well distributed. Lots of old feed. Returned to Sta. via Weminuche Road at 2:00 p.m. Changed horses and started for Webbs to examine S. Use ditch. Arrived Webbs at 3:00 and inspected as much of ditch as was exposed to view. Ditch is built according to specifications on Permit but lacks 196 feet of reaching Webbs line. Webb explained its unfinished state by shortage of labor and the untimely snow of last Nov. Returned to Shrops. to do chores and found that Shrop. had returned. Then to P.O. for mail Returned to Sta at 7:00 p.m.
Cloudy all day but warm. [written in margin]
Graz. 6 hrs
Uncl. 2 hrs
L. (Uses) 2 hrs
Sunday, May 2, 1920
Cleaned house, aired bedding, read Bulletin and took bath.
Lovely day [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 8 hrs
Monday May 3, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started at 8:00 to file mail, and fill out 874-12’s for permits received this mail. Started at 9:00 on fence at N.E. corner and repaired to N.W. corner by noon. Started at 1:00 and repaired to S.W. corner by 4:00 p.m. Four wired broken in many places. Left for Cranes at 4:00 to get eggs. Returned at 6:00
Hot, dry, wind, all day. [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 3 hrs
Imp (fence) 6 hrs
Tuesday May 4, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started at 8:00 on fence and finished at 11:00 Then saddled horse and rode down Piedra to Weminuche Bridge looking over driveway and inspected sheep bridges. Found one dead steer of Hotts. Returned to Sta. at 5:00 p.m.
Windy but warm. [written in margin]
Imp. (fence) 3 hrs
Graz 5 hrs
Wed. May 5, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started at 8:00 for East Piedra Div. and rode over it getting acquainted with that country. Back by the way of Hotts and Martins. Returned to Station at 3:00 and made out Form 26, Forms 399 for Webbs Sp. Use and got mail ready.
Beautiful day [written in margin]
Grazing 6 hrs
Uncls’fd 2 hrs
Thursday May 6, 1920
Up at 7:00 got mail to gather [together?] and left for P.O. at 8:00. From there to Maloys to count cattle brought in by W.R. Maloy. They were already turned out. From there to Station arriving at 1:00 p.m. Ate dinner and scrubbed kitchen floor and washed clothes. Keane and Martin came by at 4:00 and talked with them for an hour. Parcell brought in wolf this evening measuring 6 ft. 9 in. from tip to lip.
Cloudy and warm. [written in margin]
Unclsfd 3 hrs
Grazing 5 hrs
Friday May 7, 1920
Up at 6:00 Left at 7:30 for mail box to give Crane wire connectors for Norris. Too late for Crane so went to Keanes and gave them to Kleckner to mail as he was going to town. Helped Keane shoe his horse and then went with him to ride over division east of the Park. He showed me Salt Grounds and sheep line. Returned to Station at 5:00 pretty sick.
Very warm and sunny [written in margin]
Unclsfd 3 hrs
Grazing 5 hrs.
Saturday May 8, 1920
Sick leave. Keane and Shrop. to see me and brought medicine
Unclsfd 8 hrs.
Sunday May 9, 1920
Sick all day. Felt a little better toward evening.
Unclsfd. 8 hrs
Monday May 10, 1920
Up at 7:00 Started at 8:00 and read mail and filed it, answered G. Sup. letter, Disposal of manure report, time sheet for Census Super. Left Station at 12:00 to examine Thayer’s P. land. Ran two 40’s and sighted across the other two and sketched it. Returned to Sta. at 4:30 and made out map and report Form 251. Finished at 6:00. Feel ambitious, but mighty weak.
Cloudy with squalls of snow. [written in margin]
Grazing 5 hrs
Coop. (Census) 1 hrs
Uncls’fd 2 hrs.
Tuesday May 11, 1920
Up at 6:00 Left Sta at 8:00 for Middle Fork to examine Maloy’s private land. Arrived at Maloy’s place at noon and got in out of rain till 1:00 Then examined land and sketched it. Returned to Sta. at 4:00 and worked on map till 6:00
Flurries of snow and rain. [written in margin]
Grazing 9 hrs
Wed. May 12, 1920
Up at 6:00 Started for Davis at 8:00. Arrived Davis at 9:30 and examined land and sketched topography. Dinner at Davis. Returned to Sta. at 3:00 p.m. worked on map and report till 5:00. Then got bracketts [sic] and oat bags ready to take to Cranes. Made telephone inspection and reports. Asher passed with his horses today
Fine sunny day [written in margin]
Grazing 8hrs
Unclsfd 1 hr
Thursday May 13, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started for Cimarrona Sta. at 8:00 to check property and look over Drift Fence Div. Arrived Cim. at noon. Fed horse and checked property and looked over fence to determine amount of repairs needed. Started for Bridge Sta. at 1:00 and arrived at 3:30. Rained all afternoon. From 3:30 to 5:00 spent getting ready to go to town, making list of grub and getting mail to-gather [sic]
Cloudy in a.m. Rained all p.m. [written in margin]
Graz 3 hrs
Uncls’f’d 5 hrs
Friday May 14, 1920
Up at 4:30. Started at 5:45 in a drizzling rain for Pagosa. Pulled cow out of mud for Hotts and phoned to him from Winter Camp. Arrived Pagosa at 11:00 a.m. Dinner at Dickerson Cafe. Ordered groceries and reported at Forest Office. Talked with Mack till 3:00 and then went with Kennedy to get paint and staples at warehouse.
Rained all day [written in margin]
Unclsfd 8 hrs
Sat. May 15, 1920
Up at 7:00. Cared for horses and reported at Forest Office. Filled out another service record and left to complete shopping. Cared for horses at 5:00
Rained a.m. Clear p.m. [written in margin]
Uncls’f’d 8 hrs
Sunday May 16, 1920
Left Pagosa at 9:00 for Bridge. Dinner at Winter Camp and on to Jacobson’s for pup with Irwin. Got pup and on to Sta at 5:00. Asher in lane with cattle and Babcock at Bridge with sheep.
Nice warm day. [written in margin]
Unclsfd 8 hrs
Diary read from Jan 21 to May 15 inc.
John McLaren
N.F.E. [written on back of May 15 entry]
Monday May 17, 1920
Up at 5:30. Left at 7:00 for P.O. for mail and grub at Cranes. Went to Webbs and bought chaps. Returned to Sta. at 11:00 and got dinner. Started for Twin Buttes at 12:30 to see if Williamson had grazed over on to the north end of Twin B. He had not. Passed Asher and Babcock on way up. Returned to Sta. at 5:00 p.m.
Beautiful day, warm and sunny. [written in margin]
Unclsfd 3 hrs
Grazing 6 hrs
Tuesday May 18, 1920
Up at 6:00. Brownell called at 7:00 to say that McClaren would be here at noon. Started at 8:00 for Shropshires for potatoes and milk Returned to Station at 11:00 and cleaned up house. McClaren came at 11:30. Talked over Fire plan and McC explained maps to be submitted.
Beautiful sunny day [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 3 hrs
Protection 5 hrs.
Wed. May 19, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started at 8:00 and examined tools with McClaren and then wrangled horses while he was checking over my diary. McC left for Pagosa at 9:00 and I started for Grass Division but met Parcell and his wife and returned to Sta. with them and helped them get moved in. Hauled a load of wood before dinner. Started at 1:00 and tore down hay yard fence, rolled the wire and pulled the posts. Then raked up old hay and burned it. Then worked checking over property and making out Quarterly requisition. Quit at 6:00
Beautiful day [written in margin]
Protection 1 hr
Unclsfd 8 hr
Thursday May 20, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started at 8:00 and made out Allotment report, finished requisition and made out property inventory. Wrapped up botany to be returned to District Office and also wrapped up McClaren’s Fire Manual and his other papers. Left for P.O. at 11:00 and on to Mr. Schwyharts to settle with him for eggs before he went to Pagosa. Returned to Sta. at 3:00 p.m. and got lunch. They pulled shoes off black horse, cleaned out fly trap and reset it. Then got forge ready to be hauled to Winter Camp and grain sacks to Dunnagan’s
Lovely warm day [written in margin]
Uncls’f’d 8 hrs
Friday May 21, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started for Grass Division at 8:00. Arrived at Babcock’s sheep camp on Weminuche at 11:00 a.m. and found that Bab. was in Pagosa after supplies. Rode up to Parcell ranch and got in out of rain till 2:00 p.m. Then left for Sta. Rained all day. Arrived Sta. at 4:30 and cooked supper. Piedra River is higher than it has been since I came. Approach to bridge on this side is washed out and water getting higher every minute.
Rained all day [written in margin]
Grazing (S&G) 8 hrs
Saturday May 22, ‘20
Up at 7:00. Still raining hard. Started at 8:00, cleaned and oiled typewriter, repaired stirrups on saddle and split wood that was in wood-shed. Then put on slicker and piled enough rock in the washed-out approach to the Bridge to allow crossing with saddle horse. Left Sta. at 12:00 to meet Shrop. and Thayer with cattle to count them. Counted 61 head for Thayer and 60 head for Shropshire Returned to Sta. at 4:00 and tacked front shoes on horse and tightened loose shoe on mare.
Rained all day [written in margin]
Uncls’f’d 3 hrs
Coop. 2 hrs
Grazing 3 hrs
Sunday May 23, ‘20
Left Station at 8:30 and helped Shrop and Thayer brand their southern steers. Got mail and returned to Sta at 6:00 p.m.
Clear and very warm. [written in margin]
Uncls’f’d 8 hrs.
Monday May 24, ‘20
Up at 6:00. Left Station at 8:00 with pack horse for Crane’s to get paint and staples. Returned to Station at 10:00 and took axe and went down Piedra Canyon to size up the job of cleaning out trail Chopped four trees out of trail and found that I would need a saw and wedges. Returned to Station at 1:30 and found Archuleta at Bridge with balance of Hatcher’s sheep. Told him where to camp and how to get to his lambing ground. Onto Sta. and dinner eaten at 2:30. Scrubbed wood work and painted doors and windows till 6:00 p.m.
Beautiful day [written in margin]
Imp (R.S.) 6 hrs
" Piedra Trail 3 hrs
Tuesday May 25, ‘20
Up at 6:00. Left Sta at 8:00 for Archuleta’s lambing ground to show him his division lines and get him located. Met Williamson and he informed me that he had lost his bridge during the high water. On to Archuleta’s camp and explained his lines to him. From there to Babcocks lambing ground to look over his range and see that he was getting along O.K. Returned to Sta. at 3:00 and made out copies of telephone report, filed mail and re-set front shoe on mare.
Clear in a.m. Cloudy in p.m. [written in margin]
Grazing 6 hrs
Uncls’fd 2 hrs
Wednesday May 26, ‘20
Up at 6:00 Started at 8:00 to paper kitchen and papered till noon. Then took team and took load of stuff to Parcell ranch expecting to go on to Cimarrona after bear traps, but it rained so hard I thought it best to come back before Williams Crk. got too high to ford. Returned to Sta. at 4:00 and painted woodwork in office till 6:00 p.m.
Rained hard nearly all day. [written in margin]
Imp. (R.S.) 6 hrs
Coop. (after bear traps) 3 hrs
Thursday May 27, ‘20
Up at 6:00. Started at 8:00 and got mail ready to take to P.O. Left Sta. at 11:00 a.m. and left mail at P.O. On to Webbs for eggs and butter. Had dinner at Webbs and then went up and examined his cultivation permit. Found fence torn down as he was instructed. Returned to Sta. at 4:00 and went down Piedra Canyon and worked cleaning trail till 6:00 p.m. returning to Sta. at 6:30.
Cloudy at times but very warm. [written in margin]
Unclsfd 3 hrs
Land Uses 3 hrs
Imp (Piedra Trail) 3 hrs
Friday, May 28, 1920
Up at 6:00. Started at 8:00 and painted wood-work till 5:00 p.m.
Very warm [written in margin]
Imp. (R.S.) 8 hrs
Saturday May 29, ‘20
Up at 5:30. Started at 8:00 for point in Piedra Trail where I left off work and worked on trail till 1:00 p.m. finishing it to Weminuche Creek. Returned to Sta. at 3:00 and painted wood-work till 6:00 p.m.
Pretty day, little wind [written in margin]
Imp. (P. trail) 7 hrs
" (R.S.) 3 hrs
Sunday May 30, ‘20
Up at 7:00. Rec’d phone call from Reed asking me to join in a wolf hunt with all the men of the neighborhood. Left Sta. at 8:00 and met at big mail-box and went to Robbin’s where we spread out and looked for dens. Keane and Reed found two dens but old ones were absent. Traps were set at the entrance of the dens. Returned to Sta. at 5:00 p.m. and papered office till 9:00 p.m.
Beautiful day [written in margin]
Coop. (wolf hunt) 8 hrs
Imp (R.S.) 3 hrs
Monday May 31, ‘20
Up at 5:30. Started at 8:00 and papered Office till 1:00 p.m. Started at 2:00 and placed maps on wall and stored old pamphlets and bulletins away and straightened office fixtures around again till 5:00 p.m. Then saddled horse and went to P.O. after mail and back via bridge on account of Piedra being so high. Returned to Sta. at 7:00
Fine sunny day [written in margin]
Imp. (R.S.) 8 hrs
Uncls’fd 2 hrs
Tuesd. June 1, ‘20
Up at 5:30. Left Sta. at 7:00 for Drift Fence Div. to make inspection trip. Found range in excellent condition. Short Larkspur beginning to bloom but no losses as yet from poison. Dinner at Cimarrona Sta. Came on to Twin Buttes and looked after Archuleta’s lambing herd. Found them doing nicely. On to Sta. at 4:00. Made out Form 26, and schedule for Month of June.
Beautiful day. Sprinkle of rain. [written in margin]
Grazing 8 hrs
Uncl’s’fd 1 hr
Wed. June 2 ‘20
Up at 6:00. Started on inspection trip over Piedra Div at 8:00. Rode Johnson Flat, Wainright and on over into Middle Fork Found lots of cattle down low and feed short low down. Feed fine on Middle Fork Saw fresh bear sign on Middle F. Returned to Sta at 5:00
Cloudy, with showers. [written in margin]
Grazing 8 hrs
Thursday June 3 ‘20
Up at 6:00. Started papering at 8:00 and finished at 5:00.
Showers. [written in margin]
Imp. (R.S.) 8 hrs
Friday June 4, ‘20
Up at 5:30. Left for P.O. at 6:00 with mail. Returned to Station at 8:00 and started to clean up mess made by papering Scrubbed whole house, washed wood-work, cleaned up yard and washed clothes and dish towels. Finished at 5:00
Cloudy a.m. clear p.m. [written in margin]
Imp. (R.S.) 7 hrs
Uncls’fd 1 hr
Saturday June 5, ‘20
Up at 6:00. Left Sta at 8:00 for Webbs and Maloys to get butter and eggs and to see Maloy concerning drift Fence. Got in out of rain at Thayer’s and started for Webbs at 10:00. Then to Maloys and talked over drift fence proposition. Returned to Sta. at noon and painted wood-work till 5:00 p.m.
Rained most all day [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 1 hr
L. Uses 3 hr
Imp. (B.R.S.) 4 hrs
Sunday June 6, ‘20
Up at 6:00. Started for Shropshire’s to meet ranchmen there. Then left for wolf dens to dig them out. Digged [sic] both dens out and found them empty. Returned to Sta. at 5:00 p.m.
Beautiful day [written in margin]
Coop. (Wolf hunt) 8 hrs
Monday June 7, ‘20
Up at 6:00 Worked in Office all morning making corrections on property inventory filing mail closing Patterson Claim cases and rechecking tents. Left Sta. at 1:30 for Shropshire’s and Kleckner’s to see them about hiring teams for transportation of fire-fighters. Found that Shrop. had rented his place to Stevens and Kleckner not at home. While at Shrop’s I gave him sights on his lines. Returned to Sta. at 5:00 p.m.
Hazy all day but very warm. [written in margin]
Unc’ls’fd 4 hrs
Protection 4 hrs
Tues June 8, 1920
Up at 6:00 Started at 8:00 with Crane and cut and hauled wood till 5:00 p.m.
Fine day [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 8 hrs
Wed. June 9, ‘20
Up at 5:00 Started for Kleckner’s at 7:00. Joined Kleck. and started for Piedra Div. where Kleck. showed me Salt Grounds and gave me the names of the drains and Creeks. Returned to Sta. at 5:00.
Light rains in p.m. [written in margin]
Grazing 9 hrs.
Thur. June 10, ‘20
Up at 6:00 Started at 8:00 and made out reports on Crane and Thayer’s road use and Maloy’s Drift-fence, Plantation report, and got mail ready to take to P.O. Started for P.O. at 11:00. Returned to Sta. at 2:00 and split wood till 5:00
Lovely day [written in margin]
L. Uses 3 hrs
Unc’ls’fd 5 hrs
Friday June 11, ‘20
Up at 6:00. Started at 8:00 and pulled all shoes on both horses and reset them. Finished at 1:00. Started at 2:00 and sawed and split wood and stacked it in wood house till 5:30.
Showers in p.m. [written in margin]
Unc’ls’fd 8 hrs
Sat June 12, 1920
Left Sta. at 8:00 for big Sand country. Crossed sheep bridge and rode nearly to the top of hill on the driveway. Found it in good condition. Then went to Big Sand. Examined fire box and found saw, lantern, two canteens, time-book, pencil and file missing Came back via driveway Returned to Sta. at 5:00 p.m.
Light showers [written in margin]
Grazing 8 hrs
Sunday June 13, ‘20
Went to P.O. after mail.
Lovely day [written in margin]
Unclsfd 8 hrs
Monday June 14, ‘20
Up at 6:00. Left Station at 8:00 to inspect telephone line. Rode to where Turkey Sp’gs road turns off but could not find any trouble. From there to Turkey Spgs. R.S. but found Irwin not at home. Returned to Station at 6:00 p.m.
Imp (Maint C.T.L.) 9 hrs
Tuesday June 15, ‘20
Up at 5:30 Left Sta. at 8:00 and met Huebler at Toner’s with Trout fry From there to Cimarrona R.S. Planted 5000 in Cim. Crk and 15,000 in Williams Creek Left Cim. R.S. at 3:00 p.m. and rode over Twin Buttes Div Talked to Archuleta and Merino. Both doing fine. Posted boundary of sheep drive across flat at head of Twin Buttes Div. as I went up
Cool breeze. [written in margin]
Co-op 7 hrs
Grazing 3 hrs
Wednesday June 16
Up at 6:00 Started at 8:00 for Boundary Sign on O’Niel [sic] Hill to reset it. Helped pull Shrop’s car to top of hill. Re-set sign post and looked for observation point to draw Fire Map from. Started on map at 11:00 and finished preliminary work on it at 4:00. Returned to Sta. at 4:30 and chopped wood till 5:00
Cloudy and cool. [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 3 hrs
Protection 5 hrs
Thursday June 17, ‘20
Up at 6:30. Worked from 8:00 till 11:00 on reports and getting mail ready to take to P.O. Left Sta. at 11:00 for P.O. and Webbs to get butter and eggs. Returned to Shrop’s at 3:00 and got in out of rain till 4:00. Explained to Shrop’s the most important part of Manual to Study and about clerical work so he could get started O.K. on his district on Cochetopa. Returned to Sta. at 5:00 and wrapped saw and lantern with burlap to take to Sand Creek Fire Box.
Cloudy till 3:00 then rained. [written in margin]
Unclsfd 8 hrs
Protection 1 hrs
Friday June 18, ‘20
Started at 8:00 and packed horses with fire tools and started at 9:00 for Big Sand Crk. fire-box. Arrived Sand Creek at 12:00 and filled fire-box and filled out new F-15. Returned to Sta. at 4:00 and scrubbed floors and washed clothes till 5:30
Cloudy and windy. [written in margin]
Protection 8 hrs
Uncls’f’d 1 hr
Saturday June 19, ‘20
Up at 5:30. Started at 8:00 and rode up Chub Draw and looked over Salt Grounds with a view towards posting them but found I’d have to move most of them. Posted No. 8 in Lake Park. Dinner at H. Lake. Then to Middle Fork and looked over Salt G. there. Found no salt at No. 3. Asked Thayer to salt there as soon as possible. Got mail at P.O. and on to Sta. at 6:00 p.m.
Hot and dry. [written in margin]
Grazing 9 hrs
Sunday June 20, ‘20
No official duties performed.
Unclsfd 8 hrs
Monday June 21, ‘20
Up at 5:00. Started for Pagosa at 7:00. Arrived Pagosa at 11:00 a.m. Dinner at Pagosa Cafe. Got hair cut and shave and reported at Forest Office at 2:00 p.m. Talked over district work and then bought sign nails and did some personal trading
Very hot and dusty. [written in margin]
Unclsfd 8 hrs
Tuesday June 22, ‘20
Up at 6:00. Took both horses to blacksmith shop at 8:00 and had new shoes fitted up. Left Pagosa at 9:00 with Brownell and arrived at Winter Camp at noon. On to Bridge Sta. at 4:00. Filed mail and got office work completed by 5:00 p.m.
Hot and dry [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 8 hrs
Wed June 23 1920
Up at 7:00 Left Sta at 8:00 for Toner’s to notify him to salt higher and about the withdrawal of the hay meadow. They were ready to vaccinate when I arrived so I staid [sic] and helped them. Returned to Sta. at 5:00 p.m.
Hot and dry [written in margin]
Grazing 8 hrs
Thur June 24, ‘20
Up at 6:00 Left Sta at 8:00 for Weminuche to meet Rio Grande sheep. Met cowmen taking cattle to corral to vaccinate. Helped them to corral and had dinner at Parcells. Then to Wiwel Claims and gave them Free Use. Returned to driveway at 4:00 but saw no sheep. Returned to Parcells at 6:00 p.m.
Hot and dry
Grazing 8 hrs
Timber 1 hr
Friday June 25, ‘20
Left Parcells at 7:00 and met sheep on Wagon Park and told them how and where to go. From there to Bridge R.S. Left Bridge at 12:00 and rode to sheep bridge but found no sheep in sight. Returned to Sta. at 5:00 and finished Con. Report and made copy of Fish Plant report.
Cloudy till 4:00 Then rained [written in margin]
Grazing 8 hrs
Unclsfd 1 hr
Saturday June 26
Up at 6:00. Left Sta at 8:00 for sheep bridge and Weminuche Creeks No sheep at bridge. Rained all morning so suppose they camped on Devil Mt. Took afternoon off. Rained all day.
Rained all day [written in margin]
Grazing 4 hrs
Unclsfd 4 hrs.
Sunday June 27, ‘20
Left Sta. at 9:00 for Weminuche Creek to make arrangements with Babcock for the use of his bridge for Vigil’s sheep. Arrived at Babcock’s camp at noon and found that Babcock had gone to Bayfield. Told his herder that Vigil would cross Monday noon. Returned to Parcell’s and had dinner. Then left for upper driveway to see that Rio Grande sheep had not stopped. Rode on down into Williams Creek and returned to Parcells at 6:00
Rained hard all day. All creeks very high [written in margin]
Grazing 9 hrs
Monday June 28
Left Parcell ranch at 8:00 and rode down driveway to Piedra Bridge. Found Rodriquez and Vigil at Bridge. Told Rod. to make it to his range by Tues. night. Told Vigil’s man I’d cross him Tues. noon. Returned to Bridge Sta. at 3:30 and got dinner. Kleckner and Wiwel here for dinner. Split wood till 5:00
Cloudy with some rain [written in margin]
Grazing 8 hrs
Tuesday June 29, ‘20
Left Bridge Sta. at 8:00 for driveway to meet Vigil sheep and cross them at Babcocks bridge. Met Lopez sheep at head of Spring Creek and told them where to camp that evening. On down to Grass Div. and got Vigils man and rode to Wiwel’s camp to get permission to cross his land. Then rode down Weminuche Valley on west side and showed herder how to come. Then crossed his sheep at bridge and established his camp and notified Babcock’s man that Vigil sheep were near. Returned to Parcell ranch at 6:00 p.m.
Beautiful day [written in margin]
Grazing 9 hrs
Wed June 30, 1920
Left Parcell ranch at 8:00 and rode down driveway to Piedra Bridge. Met Rod. for Rio Grande and told him where to camp. Returned to Bridge Sta at 2:00 p.m. and got mail ready and took it to P.O. Returned to Sta at 5:00
Warm and sunny [written in margin]
Grazing 5 hrs
Uncls’fd 3 hrs
Thur. July 1, 1920
Left Bridge Sta. at 8:00 for driveway. Rode to Wagon Park and chopped out drive from there to Weminuche Creek. Returned to Parcell ranch at 6:00 p.m.
Beautiful day [written in margin]
Imp. (Maint. P.R. drive) 9 hrs.
Friday, July 2, ‘20
Left Parcell ranch at 8:00 and rode to where drive starts up Timber hill. Chopped out the worst of it from there to where trail starts to Pine River. Arrived Granite Peak R.S. at 6:00. Found no one there but enough grub for a couple meals.
Fine day till 3:00 p.m. Then rained [written in margin]
Imp (P.R. driveway) 9 hrs
Saturday July 3, ‘20
Left Granite Peak R.S. at 7:00 a.m. and rode down driveway to Timber hill and then down Weminuche to Wagon Park. Met two bunches of sheep there for Rio Grande. On down drive to Spring Gulch and from there to Bridge R.S. arriving at 3:00 p.m. Rained all p.m. so stayed in.
Hot in a.m. Rained all p.m. [written in margin]
Grazing 6 hrs
Unclsfd 2 hrs
Sunday July 4, 1920
Went to P.O. after mail and on to picnic
Very warm [written in margin]
Uncls’f’d 8 hrs
Monday July 5, 1920
Started at 8:00 and made out Form 26, expense account, allotment report, and monthly schedule. Then sawed wood till noon. Left Sta. at 2:00 p.m. for Cranes for flour, bacon and suit of clothes. Returned to Sta. at 4:00 p.m.
Very warm [written in margin]
Unclassified 8 hrs
Tuesday July 6, ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 for driveway via Williams Crk. short cut. Found Quintana in Wagon Park. He told me of a burning snag on Spring Creek. Started for snag at 10:00 and found it at noon. Scraped away leaves and needles around it and went on to Bridge but found no sheep. Returned to Sta. at 3:00 and marked tools till 4:00. Then sawed wood till 5:00
Hot and dry. Slight breeze. [written in margin]
Grazing 3 hrs
Protection 4 hrs
Unclsfd 1 hr
Wed July 7, ‘20
Left Sta. at 7:00 for burning snag. Arrived there at 8:00 and cut away all limbs and shoveled a trench around it. Then cut out sheep drive to Long Hollow. Dinner at Asher’s. Met Toner on Weminuche and arranged to go with him to-morrow [sic] to establish new salt grounds. Returned to Sta. at 6:00.
Hot and dry [written in margin]
Protection 2 hrs
Imp (maint sheep drive) 7 hrs
Thur. July 8, 1920
Received ‘phone call from Mack that he and Kylie would be out at 11:00. Phoned Toner’s and postponed placing of salt. Left Sta. at 8:00 and rode to Reeds where I talked over hiring of car in case of fire. Then to Kleckners for eggs and butter. Returned to Sta. at 10:00 and found M & K here. Talked over trail work, grazing and general improvement. M & K left at 1:30 and I took mail to P.O. and from there to Martin’s to see if I could hire J. Martin for trail work. Found that he had accepted a position and had left that morning. Returned to Sta. at 5:00 p.m.
Hot in a.m. Rain in p.m. [written in margin]
Uncls’fd 6 hrs
Protection 2 hrs
Friday July 9, ‘20
Left Sta. for sheep drive at 8:00. Found that Hatcher sheep had gone on down. Caught them at Sand Creek and had dinner with them. Showed Garcia where to go on North Fork and returned Sta. at 6:00 p.m.
Hail and rain in p.m. [written in margin]
Grazing 9 hrs
Sat. July 10, ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 for sheep bridge. Met two bunches there for Rio Grande and one bunch of Sargents. Found Asher’s jack there and brought him to Sta. arriving at 3:00 p.m. Then went to P.O. after mail and returned at 5:00.
Hot in a.m. Rain in p.m. [written in margin]
Grazing 6 hrs
Unclsfd 2 hrs
Sun. July 11, 1920
Left Sta. at 8:00 for sheep drive with Asher’s jack to return. Met sheep in Wagon park and instructed them where to go. On to Asher’s with jack. Returned to Sta. at 5:00.
Unclsfd 4 hrs
Grazing 4 hrs
Monday, July 12, ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 to count and stamp posts on Crane sale. Counted 200 posts in timber and on his ranch and had dinner there. Returned to Sta. at 2:00 and went to Kleckner’s for spuds and eggs. Returned to Sta. at 4:00 and chopped wood till 5:00
Timber 4 hrs
Unclsfd 4 hrs
Tuesday July 13, ‘20
Left Sta. at 7:00 for Pagosa Spgs. Arrived at 11:00 and had dinner at Pagosa Cafe($.85) Reported at Forest Office at 1:00 and talked over Hatcher Merc. grazing and other matters.
Unclsfd 8 hrs
Wed July 14, ‘20
Attended to personal trading and helped Parcell load up some of my groceries. Left Pagosa at 2:00 and arrived B.R.S. at 6:00 p.m.
Unclsfd 9 hrs
Thursday July 15, ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 for Williams Creek to move Lopez off Rodriquez’ range. Found that it was too much of a trip for one day so returned to Parcell ranch for the night.
Grazing 8 hrs
Friday July 16, ‘20
Left Parcell’s at 8:00 and rode up drive to Buttes and around into West Cimarrona Crk. to Rodriquez camp. From there over into East Cimarrona Crk and over the head of it into the head of Hossick Crk. Camped at sheep camp.
Grazing 8 hrs
Saturday July 17, ‘20
Started to hunt horses at 8:00 and found them at Corryell place at 11:00. Rode back up Hossick Creek and got saddle and rode on over into Big Squaw Creek on the Rio Grande Forest. Then took divide trail into Little Squaw Crk. and dropped over into west fork of Williams Cr. Found that Lopez had not gotten onto Rod. range as yet Told them to keep off and that I would be through that country often. Down Williams Crk to Parcell ranch at 8:00 p.m.
Grazing 12 hrs
Sunday July 18, ‘20
Left Parcell Ranch at 8:00 for Bridge Sta. arriving at 11:00. Then to P.O. after mail. Got outfit ready for pack trip to Weminuche Bear Park and Bald Mt. Div’s
Grazing 4 hrs
Unclsfd 4 hrs
Monday July 19, 1920
Left Sta. at 8:00 for Weminuche Div. Saw Quintana’s sheep at Weminuche Bridge and told herder to move his camp farther away from driveway. Camped at head of Weminuche
Grazing 8 hrs
Tuesday July 20, ‘20
Moved camp over on Pine River and left one horse in pasture at Granite Peak R.S. Then rode on to head of Pine River and found Hatcher sheep but found that Williamson and Moreno were in Pagosa. Returned to camp on Pine River at 6:00. Rained all p.m.
Grazing 9 hrs
Wednesday July 21, ‘20
Left camp at 8:00 and rode down Weminuche to see that Quintana had moved his camp. Then back to Divide Lake and south to Shaw Creek Vega. Returned to camp at 7:00 p.m.
Grazing 10 hrs
Thursday July 22, ‘20
Packed up and got ready to leave for Bear Park when it started to rain. Unpacked and stayed in camp till noon. Then packed up and left for Bear Park. Camped at Pacheco camp.
Grazing 8 hrs
Friday July 23, ‘20
Walked over most of Bear Park Div with Pacheco and returned to camp at 5:00. Told Pacheco to stay off Asher’s land at all times
Grazing 8 hrs
Saturday July 24, 20
Left camp for Bridge Sta. at 8:00 Arrived Bridge at 4:00 p.m. Then to P.O. for mail. Met trail crew at Cranes and on to Sta. at 7:00
Grazing 7 hrs
Unclsfd 3 hrs
Sunday July 25, ‘20
Started at 8:00 for Stevens’ to hire Cox’s mule to pack trail crew equipment on. Returned to Sta. at 9:00 and got all tools, tents etc. to-gether [sic]. Left Sta. at 12:00 with crew and pack outfit for Cimarrona Station. Arrived at Cimarrona at 5:00 p.m.
Imp. (Williams Trail) 8 hrs
Monday July 26 ‘20
Left Cimarrona with two pack loads of grub and bedding for head of Williams Creek and left them at end of constructed trail. Returned to Cim. at 4:00 and got two more loads ready for morning
Imp. (Will. Crk. Train) 8 hrs
Tuesday July 27 ‘20
Left Cimarrona at 8:00 with 2 loads for trail camp. Arrived camp at 3:00 and helped crew pitch tents and make camp till 5:00
Imp (W.Trail) 8 hrs
Wednesday July 28 ‘20
Left Trail camp at 8:00 for Cimarrona Sta. for remainder of tools and grub. Returned to camp at 4:00 and showed Cavanis where to build ford across creek and lined out some trail for them. Came into camp at 6:00
Imp. (W.C. Trail) 9 hrs
Thursday July 29 ‘20
Left Trail Camp at 8:00 for Bridge R.S. Arrived at 3:30 and made out requisition seed crop reports and got mail ready. Cleaned up house and read last week’s mail.
Imp. (W.C. Trail) 4 hrs
Unclsfd 4 hrs
Friday July 30, ‘20
Left Sta. at 7:00 with voucher for Cox to sign, mule to return and mail to post. Found that Stevens was going to Pagosa and return to-day [sic] so decided to go down with him. Returned to Sta. and changed clothes and rode to Stevens place. Arrived Pagosa at 1:00 p.m. and reported at F. Office. Talked over Williams Crk. Trail and hunted for kettle at ware-house. Returned to Sta. at 6:00 p.m.
Unclsfd 9 hrs
Saturday July 31 ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 for Weminuche Bridge to get pick left there by Trail crew of last year. Returned to Sta. at 11:00 and tried to sharpen steel but could not make forge blow. Washed clothes from 1:00 to 3:00 and then left Sta. with pack horse for mail and supplies for trail crew. Returned to Sta. at 6:00 p.m.
Imp. (W.C. Trail) 7 hrs
Unclsfd 2 hrs
Sunday Aug. 1, ‘20
Left Sta. at 12:00 for Cimarrona R.S. with pack load of grub and tools for trail crew. Arrived Cimarrona at 3:00 and cleaned up house and grounds.
Imp. (W.Crk. Trail) 4 hrs
Monday Aug 2, ‘20
Left Cimarrona at 8:00 for trail camp arriving at noon. Had dinner and unpacked and lined out more trail for crew. Returned to Sta. at 4:00 Rained all afternoon.
Imp (Will. Crk Trail) 8 hrs
Tuesday Aug. 3, ‘20
Started at 8:00 and pulled shoe off mare and re-set it. Then went to Bridge Sta arriving at 1:00 p.m. Had dinner and started at 2:00 to make out reports. Finished at 6:00
Imp (W.C. Trail) 4 hrs
Uncls’fd 5 hrs
Wed. Aug. 4, ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 for Cranes with bill of grub for trail crew and mail for P.O. Then to Willow Draw to mark Free Use for Norris. Returned to Sta. at 2:00 and packed panniers for trip to trail crew. Then re-set shoes on horse and cleaned out drain pipe.
Timber 4 hrs
Unclsfd 4 hrs
Thursday Aug. 5, ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 for Cimarrona with pack load of grub and sharp tools for trail crew. Arrived Cimarrona at 1:00 and had dinner. Worked from 1:30 till 3:00 on fence and then got in out of rain for balance of day
Imp (W.C. Trail) 4 hrs
Imp. (Maint. fence Cim) 3 hrs
Unclsfd 1 hr
Friday Aug 6, ‘20
Left Sta (Cim) at 8:00 for head of Williams Creek. Arrived at trail camp at noon and had dinner. Then rode up new trail and lined out more trail for crew. Then walked up to Rodriquez sheep camp to see when they had come in there. Left trail camp at 2:30 and arrived Parcell ranch at 7:00 p.m.
Imp. (Will. C. Trail) 9 hrs
Grazing 1 hr
Saturday Aug 7, ‘20
Left Parcell Ranch at 8:00 and arrived at Bridge Sta. at 11:00 a.m. Ate dinner and washed clothes from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Then went to P.O. for mail. Returned at 6:00 p.m.
Imp (W.C. Trail) 4 hrs
Uncls’fd 5 hrs
Sunday Aug 8, ‘20
No official duties performed
Uncls’f’d 8
Monday Aug 9, ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 for Cranes to get grub for trail crew. Left Bridge at 11:30 for Cimarrona with pack load of grub. Arrived at Cimarrona at 3:00 p.m. and then packed salt off flats that Thayer had put there.
Imp. (W.C. Trail) 6 hrs
Grazing 3 hrs
Tuesday Aug. 10, ‘20
Left Cimarrona at 8:00 for trail camp with load of grub. Arrived at camp at noon and had dinner. Then took compass and surveyed out more trail. Returned to Cimarrona at 6:00 p.m.
Imp. (W.C. Trail) 9 hrs
Wed. Aug. 11, ‘20
Left Cimarrona at 8:00 for Bridge Sta. Arrived at Bridge at 11:00 and met Ethridge and Abrams here. Had dinner and got in car and drove to Parcell ranch where I rented horses to ride to Babcock’s camp. Rode to Babcock’s and had herder bunch the sheep so that Abrams could look them over. Found sheep clean and no scab among them. Returned to Parcell’s at 6:00 and left for Bridge. Arrived at Bridge at 7:00.
Imp (W.C. Trail) 3 hrs
Coop. (Stock Insp.) 6 hrs
Thursday July [sic] 12, ‘20
Stayed at Kleckner’s last night and brought home horse for Abrams to ride at 8:00 a.m. He then decided to Pass up Trujillo sheep so I returned the horse to Kleckner’s and back to Bridge Sta. Got mail ready and steel for Crane to take down. Went to P.O. at noon and on to Webbs to give him free Use. Got in out of rain there for two hours. Returned to Sta. by the way of Kleckner’s and got milk cow there.
Coop (Inspectors) 2 hrs
Unclsfd 4 hrs
Timber 2 hrs
Friday Aug. 13, ‘20
Left Sta. at 7:00 for Pagosa Sp’gs. Arrived at Pagosa at 12:30. Had dinner and reported at Forest Office. Got order book there and bought dynamite and caps and had steel sharpened. Did personal shopping till 5:00 p.m.
Uncls’fd 9 hrs
Saturday Aug. 14, ‘20
Took horses to shop at 8:00 and had them shoed. Left Pagosa at 11:00 for Bridge arriving at 5:00 p.m.
Unclsfd 8 hrs
Sunday Aug 15, ‘20
Went to P.O. for mail
Unclsfd 8 hrs
Monday Aug. 16, 1920
Left Sta. at 8:00 for Crane’s to get grub for trail crew. Returned to Sta. at 11:00 and went to Steven’s after Cox’s mule as my mare was too lame to travel. Returned to Sta. at noon and left at once for Cimarrona R.S. arriving at 4:00 p.m. and camped with Smith’s at Cimarrona
Imp (W.C.T.) 8 hrs
Tuesday Aug 17, ‘20
Left Cimarrona at 8:00 for trail camp with load of supplies. Arrived at noon and spent afternoon moving camp and lining out more trail.
Imp (W.C.T.) 8 hrs
Wed. Aug. 18, ‘20
Started at 8:00 for horses and found that they had pulled out. Tracked them to Wagon Park and found them there. Rode bareback to trail camp and got saddles and outfit and rode to Parcell Ranch arriving at 7:00 p.m.
Unclsfd 3 hrs
Imp. (W.C.T) 6 hrs
Thursday Aug 19, ‘20
Left Parcells at 8:00 for Bridge R.S. arriving at 11:00. Ate dinner and made out reports and got mail ready and took it to P.O.
Imp (W.C.T.) 3 hrs
Uncls’fd 5 hrs
Friday Aug 20, ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 for Asher Ranch on Weminuche to buy horse. Arrived at noon and had dinner. Wrangled the horses after dinner and caught colt and put halter on her. Broke her to lead till 5:00 p.m.
Uncls’fd 8 hrs
Sat. Aug 21, ‘20
Left Asher’s with colt at 8:00 and arrived at Bridge at noon. Spent afternoon working out colt.
Uncls’fd 8 hrs
Sun. Aug. 22, ‘20
Worked colt out in a.m. and went to Cimarrona with pack load of grub in p.m.
Uncls’fd 4 hrs
Imp (W.C.Trail) 4 hrs
Monday Aug 23, ‘20
Left Cimarrona at 8:00 for trail camp. Arrived at camp at noon and had dinner there. Returned to Cimarrona bringing Smith with me as he had resigned.
Imp. (W.C.Trail) 8 hrs
Tuesday Aug. 24, 20
Left Cimarrona at 8:00 for Bridge Sta. arriving at 11:00 a.m. Ate dinner and left for Cranes to start haying at 12:30. Shocked hay till 6:00 p.m.
Imp (W.C.T.) 3 hrs
Uncls’fd (forage) 7 hrs
Wed Aug. 25, ‘20
Started to shock hay at 8:00 and worked till noon. Started at 1:00 and worked till 6:00 p.m.
Uncls’fd (forage) 9 hrs
Thursday Aug. 26 ‘20
Could not hay on account of rain so hooked up my mare and Cranes horse and drove to Toner’s for wood-saw and thence to Bridge Sta. where we sawed wood till 2:00 p.m. Then moved saw to timber and went back to Cranes. Then returned to Sta horseback and got mail ready and made out time report for Smith. Teofilo Martinez herder here at noon asking for more range. Told him he could go on North Fork Div. but he said that Martinez did not want his sheep there. Said that he was going out.
Unclsfd 9 hrs
Friday Aug. 27, ‘20
Left Sta. at 7:00 for road to meet Crane and give him mail. Returned to Sta. at 9:00 and saddled colt and went to William’s Creek with Jack Keane with salt. Placed it on Long Hollow and upper park. Dinner at Cimarrona. Rode over division and onto Bridge at 5:00 p.m.
Grazing 6 hrs
Uncl’s’fd 3 hrs
Saturday Aug 28, ‘20
Left Sta. at 8:00 for Toner’s to run out Hay Meadow. Ran from ¼ corner between Sections 9 & 10 37N. 3W and ran ¼ north and 1/8 East to S.W. corner of Hay Meadow. The ¼ east to S.E. Cor. Then north ¼ to N.E. cor. Then west to N.W. cor. Then south to S.W. corner, setting mounds of rocks for corner’s [sic] and closing exact for distance, 15 ft. east of line. Returned to Bridge at 2:00. Worked on notes and split wood till 5:00.
Lands adj 6 hrs
Uncls’fd 2 hrs
Sunday, Aug 29 ‘20
Left Sta. at 10:00 for Cranes for mail and supplies for trail crew. Returned to Sta. at 12:00 and left for Cimarrona at 12:30. Arrived at Cimarrona at 4:00.
Imp (W.C. Trail) 5 hrs
Uncls’fd 3 hrs
Monday Aug 30, ‘20
Left Cimarrona at 8:00 for trail camp. Met Austin and Gray on trail and they said they were quitting that eve. On to trail camp and arranged for the use of Rodriquez’ burros to pack outfit to Bridge. Packed three burros and made it to Cimarrona at 7:00 p.m.
Imp (W.C.Trail) 9 hrs
Tuesday Aug 31, ‘20
Left Cimarrona at 8:00 for Bridge Sta. with pack outfit arriving at 1:00 p.m. Eelum here asking for a rest range for his sheep as they were too lame to travel. Gave him Trujillo range for not to exceed 15 days. Made out time reports and reports for month till 5:00 p.m.
Uncls’fd 2 hrs
Graz 1 hr
Imp. (W.C.Tr) 5 hrs
San Juan National Forest daybooks, Pagosa Ranger District, June 1, 1921 – August 31, 1921, October 18, 1921, and December 1 – 15, 1921. Marilyn T. Brown, transcriber, November 2003 and August 2004. Interesting tidbits: trapping coyote and mink, see early December entries.
June 1, 1921
Went up in a.m. & posted the line between J. T. Martinez lambing grounds & the cut-over country south which is closed to sheep grazing –
returned to station & got ready & went to Pagosa leaving at 1 pm.
tried to get a horse shod but could not had to wait until next morning at 7 a.m.
4 Hrs Graz – S&G
4 Hrs M&S Unclassifd
June 2
Got my horse shod & left Pagosa at 9 a.m. & went down thru the Taylor Canon Co.
Inspected Taylor Canon fire box & put in Form F15 Looked over country in general to see if sheep of Gomez had been in Trespass but found they had not only in getting across small corners of Govt land in getting to Patent –
went to Newton Ranch for dinner & there until 2 pm
Went to Burns Canon Fire Box – Inspecting same and putting in new F 15 went on up Canon and up Poleto Canon and dropped over to JV Johnsons = Grass in Taylor & Burns Canons very good = but no water = stock go to San Juan for water = Springs running good at head of South Cr. Co. back of Vic Johnson = but a very few cattle in there only Johnson returned to W. Camp at 7:30 pm=
1 Hr Unclassifd
8 Hrs Gen’l Inspn
(3 Charge to grazing C&H
3 &S&G &2 Protection)
June 3 –
Did not get much done today = Put out mail for mail carrier=
Cut shoes on my Bay horse. Buried tin cans which had accumulated at station= Rained at noon- and looked so bad did not go away in p.m. Did not set in raining for good until 7 p.m.
8 Hrs Unclassified-
June 4
Rained all day= Read & filed mail= other odd jobs around station
8 Hrs Unclassifd
June 5th Sunday
Little of everything today= Went to Whiteads in a.m. and got a block of salt& put it out for the M? cattle = Bennett came down and took a load to Turkey in p.m. 8 Bnchs shingles = a store for the station and the lumber for cover over the well= Dug a new pit for garbage and moved the box and covered the old pit = Beals here about 2:30 on way to town = Put a new handle on a shovel = saw 2 poles down on Turkey Spgs Tel. Line will have to stub tomorrow
8 Hrs Unclassified=
June 6th
Went to Turkey Spgs Tel Line & set 3 stubs where poles had fallen down= returned home= Set 6 posts in W. Camp Pasture Fence=burned rubbish left over from new gate=
3 Hrs Maint T.S.T.Line
2 " " W.C.Pas Fence
3 " H.Q. Unclassfied
June 7th
Packed up & left Winter Camp 6:30 a.m. & went to Turkey Left Turkey 8 a.m. & worked cleaning out Piedra Drway Trail from corner of Big Pasture to Sheep Bridge = Returned to Turkey 6 pm.
10 Hrs Maint Piedra Dvway Trail
1 " Unclassfd
June 8
Finished cleaning out the Devil Mt Trail
9 Hrs Maint Devil Mt Trail
June 9
Finished cleaning out the Piedra Dvway Trail today and returned to Turkey at noon=
Got dinner & left at 2 pm= came thru Jacks lambing grounds=
Went Bennetts & got a voucher signed for hauling - at Winter Camp over night
4 Hrs Maint Piedra Dvway Trail
4 " Unclassfd
June 10 =
Left W. Camp at 11 a.m. for Pagosa with Mr Healey in auto= & returned home at 4 p.m. Called Mr Mack on fone for sheep dope Snyder ==
Read & filed mail when returned home
8 Hrs Unclassfd
June 11-
Odd jobs around station in A? awaiting Mail Carrier = painted Entrance gate = also both of the yard gates = fixed pasture fence where Mex. horses had broken thru
Mail carrier came & I read & filed mail =
Left at 3 pm & went to Sunetha & counted 1051 sheep for Hersch Mer. Co. going to Square Top = went to Pagosa for the night = arrvd Pagosa 7 p.m.
2 Hrs Maint W.C.Pas.Fence
4 " Unclassfd
4 " Grazing S&G
June 12th
Left Pagosa at 8:15 a & went to Sunetha & counted 1605 sheep H.M.Co = CH. Hancock for Pagosa Dist –
returned to W.C.S at 12 noon =
At home balance of the day
4 Hr Grazing S&G
4 " Unclassifd=
June 13
Cut shoes on Macks horse in a.m. and got outfit ready for Turkey=
Left at noon and moved over and worked on woodshed in p.m. rained all p.m.
4 Hrs Unclassfd
5 Hrs. Cont.T.S. woodshed
June 14
Rained nearly all day = Worked building woodshed between showers =
8 Hrs Constn- T. Spgs woodshed
June 15th
Raining in a.m. put new covering on platform over Turkey Spgs well in a.m.. Shingled on woodshed in p.m.
4 Hrs Maint T.S. Well
5 " Constn T.S. woodshed
June 16
Finished up the T.S. woodshed in a.m. and cleaned up around it=
Repaired Pasture fence in p.m.
4 Hrs Constr T.S. woodshed
5 " Maint T.S. Pasture Fence
June 17=
Left Turkey at 9 a.m. and went to Winter Camp to get Allstuent ? report out for mail carrier. also other mail=
Went to Ben Martinez camp to see him about Inspection Certificate = he said sheep would be inspected tomorrow 18th Returned to Turkey Spgs at 5:15 pm = stopt [sic] at Jacks Camp said he wanted to take a bunch sheep to Summer Range 20th
7 Hrs Unclassified =
2 " Grazing S&G
June 18
Left Turkey at 8 a.m. & came over via J.P Whitead to get Govt washing that Mrs. Whitead had done up for me =
arrvd WCamp at 9:45 a.m.= at home= mail carrier came at 11 a.m. read & filed mail=
Fence was down between Martinez Buck Pasture and station across the arroyo Mexican was digging it out of the mud and I helped him clean up the mess and put fence in shape= at W Camp over night=
5 Hrs H.Q. Unclassfd
3 " Maint W.Camp Pasture Fence
June 19= Sunday
Left station at 12 Noon and went to Sunetha and counted 1178 sheep. Hatcher Merlo= for Bridge and Deer Cr Divs returned home at 5:45 pm
6 Hrs Grazing S&G
4 " Unclassfd
June 20 –
Left station at 7:15 a.m. & went to Turkey via Larsens Camp= he as getting ready to move to summer range= Instructed him as to which way to go and would meet him in evening and show him way to Range=
Went on to Turkey and down the Dvway to Boundry [sic] line but could not find and [sic] sheep=
returned to Turkey for Dinner and then came over to Martinez Cr. & showed Larsen which way to go to range= returned to Winter Camp for the night
9 Hrs Grazing S&G
June 21 –
Left W. Camp at 7:30 a.m.
Went up the Dvway and met Larsen & showed him his summer range=
Rode over part of the 4 Mile Div=
The feed is extra good everywhere=
Retd to W Camp 6:15 pm=
8 Hrs Grazing S&G &C&H
June 22
Left W. Camp at 8:10 a.m. & came via Jacks Lambing grounds & shearing corrall [sic] to Turkey Jack be thru shearing 23rd
One bunch sheep going to Trail Div= 23rd and other Bunch 25th
Ray McMaire ? came to Turkey to see me about hay = Made a deal to put up my hay at the Camp and at Turkey Spgs on share’s ? =
Counted Garcia bunch of sheep in evening=
2 Hr Unclassfd
6 " Grazing S&G
June 23
Mr. French called in a.m. & said he would be here in evening with Mr. Rathford & Hatton & Loring = they arrived about 5 p.m.
Went to Winter Camp in a.m. after supplies
Got out new posts for a gate at Turkey Spgs Pasture and set them.
3 Hrs Maint Turkey Spgs Pasture Fence
5 " Unclassfd
June 24th
Rode over lambing ground with French – Rathford – Hatton - Beals
stopping at W. Camp for Lunch and returning to Turkey = Counted 2 Bands of sheep on return at Pens. One Bunch Mrs. Mary Carr and 2nd B.A. Candelaria =
2 Hrs Grazing S&G
6 " " Appraisal
June 25th
Left Turkey 8 a.m. or about and went over the trail to mouth of First Fork on Piedra River with French & party returned up the Piedra River to Sheep Bridge & via Driveway home found Candelaria & Carr sheep mixed & men were sorting them= Carr sheep herder had built a fire in a rotten log= instructed him to put out with water and not to build any more fires in logs= this being his first trip to the Mt. Range = no action taken only a good caution= on my return I found the sheeep moving and the fire had been put out as instructed = Counted the J.T. Jacques sheep for Devil Mt in evening after 6 p.m.
6 Hrs Graz appl =
4 Hrs S&G
June 26 = Sunday
Went to Pens at 5:30 a.m. = Counted the Munoz sheep for the Eagle Div = and one band – N. Rodrigues for the Rio Grande Forest = Went over to W Camp for Mail = read & filed same and went to Turkey = no sheep in evening
2 Hrs Grazing S&G
6 " Unclassfd
June 27th
Went to Pens at 7 a.m. and counted 1 Band sheep for Teofilo ? Martinez – 1356- Came to station at got ready to go out in Dvway but met man coming in & said sheep were on top ready to drop down on to the Piedra so did not go out = Mr Bennett came in at 10 a.m. with Bats for woodshed= put them in as they were green (?) and twisting in all directions
2 Hrs Graz S&G
4 " Contn – T.S. Woodshed
2 " Unclassfd
June 28
Left Station at 7:30 A [sic] posted 50 Dvway signs between Devil Cr and corner of Big Pasture in Center of Dvway = Went on over and found Teofilo Martinez behind pasture = Making all camps as directed by me and will cross Piedra this p.m.. Cleaned out 2 Big logs that had fallen across the trail since I cleaned it before = returning met J. Archuleta and I.N. Jacks going up with 4 Bands of sheep camped for dinner part of them on each side of Devil Cr – Jacks will make his range tonight with one band and the other 2 will camp on the Jacquez range returned to station at 2 p.m.
Went to Pens and counted one band sheep = E. Vigil 1095 in evening
1 Hr Maint Piedra Dvway Trail=
8 Hrs Grazing S&G
June 29th
Went to C. Pens at 5:30 a.m. & counted 2 Bands of sheep for J.C. Gomez = and returned to Station = Left at 8 a.m. & went to W Camp and made up Expense Acct – Form 26 Checked working plan and made up plan for July
returning to Turkey & counted 4 Bands of sheep in evening = Gomez 2 – Valdez 1 and JMChavez 1 = returned to Turkey at 6 pm
4 Hrs Grazing S&G
6 " Unclassfd
June 30th
Left Turkey at 7:15 a.m. & went down Driveway to Dyke & mailed the reports for June = and got expense Voucher Signed by Post Master Posted 25 Sheep Dvway signs on way down = Stopped at H&B Mill Mr Boland asked about timber on Boundry line in Sec. 34 = so went that way home to see if enough to make a sale = found to be not more than 8 M which was mature and should be cut = This is on a shale point and is better to leave as all the timber is cut on the south and east sides of it = Mr. Boland also stated that Newton were tryin to get them to cut the spruce on the old Boland claim adjoining the Turkey Sp0gs pasture I informed him that it was simply a tie proposition that there was abut very little
Saw timber in the claim but I told him to come to Turkey any time wile I was there counting sheep and I would show it to him as I knew where all the corners were
also told him there was not any water there for a set or but a very little Gov’t timber adjoining the claim that was for sale as it was only Black Jack & Middle age timber = and we did not make sales in that class of timber
returned to Turkey at 2 pm = Counted one band of sheep in evening Gallegos Bros =
4 Hrs Grazing S&G
2 " timber
2 " Unclassfd
July 1 ---
Went to W. Camp and got out some mail for mail carrier = and returned to Turkey = No sheep in sight so went out to show Jacquez ? his range= Band of sheep came in evening to late to count =
4 Hrs Unclassfd M&S
4 " S&G Grazing
July 2 =
Went to C. Pens at 5:30 a.m. & counted thru = 1 Band sheep for Gallegos Bros = Rio Grande N.F. and 1 Band for A&D Gallegos for Pine River & 1 Band for Candelaria for Rio Grande Forest returned to Turkey at 10 a.m. & got my Breakfast = Left at 11 a.m. for W Camp for Mail = but no office mail came through this week =
returned to Turkey at 2 p.m. no sheep thru in evening altho there were several bunches due in today =
4 Hrs Grazing S&G
4 " Unclassfd =
July 3rd
Went to corral at 8:15 a.m. - could hear sheep coming up the Driveway = went out to meet them & help drive them in and counted one band for Necomedez Sanchez and 2 Bands for Frank Lopez both from Parkview going to Dist 2 on Piedra =
No sheep thru in afternoon =
4 Hrs S&G Grazing
4 " H.Q. Unclassfd or Sunday =
July 4th
"My 7th year at Turkey Spgs"
Went to Winter Camp this a.m. and returned to Turkey at 4:30 p.m. Rained nearly all last night and also had 2 heavy showers during the day = Went to C. Pens at 5:30 p.m. Nothing thru all day
8 Hrs. Sunday H.Q.
July 5
Left Turkey R.S. at 7 a.m. & went up on Devil Mt – Got Saw out of Fire Box and finished cleaning out logs from the Trail as requested by Mr. French
Put saw back in Box and sealed 37548=
Jacks Camp was close & Just west of the Box
talked with Mr. Jacks a few minutes and returned via the Mexican Trail thru the south side of the Devil Mt. Range and back to the sheep Dvway at corner of Pasture = Took 2 logs out of the Sheep Dvway that had fallen lately =
returned to Turkey 3:15 p Got my dinner and went to C. Pens to see if any sheep in sight = none there =
posted 2 Trail Signs on Devil Mt Trail One at North End of long Park and the other at the crossing of West Fork of Devil Cr – also posted 4 Fire Signs =
3 Hrs Maint Devil Mt Trail 4 Hrs sheep ?
1 " " Piedra S. Dvway Inspect
July 6
Went to C Pens but no sheep in sight = Left at 8:30 a.m. & worked in the Devil Cr. Trail until 3 p.m. and returned to Turkey = counted 2 Bands sheep for Porforio Gallegos and one for Andrea Trujillo in evening after 5 p.m.
6 Hrs Maint Devil Creek Trail =
3 Hrs Grazing S&G
"Counting"
July 7th
Went to CPens at 7 a.m. & counted Band of sheep for R.M. Lucero for Rio Grande Forest = returned to Station = Got my Breakfast and went up on Chriss Mt and cleaned out the Chriss Mt Trail = this trail is not used but a very little, but thot [sic] best to keep it cleaned out = returned to Station at 11a.m. = Went to Corral at 1 pm & counted a Band of sheep for Pablo Ortiz for Rio Grande Forest. Counted a Band of sheep in evening for Mr. Carr going to R.G.
3 Hrs maint Chriss Mt Trail
6 " Grazing S&G
July 8
Left Turkey at 5:30 a stopped at C. Pens & counted 2 Bands of sheep for B.A. Rodriquez for Williams Cr Div – Arrived at Sunetha at 8:15 a.m. & counted one Band sheep for Hersch MerCo. and went to Pagosa =
Waited at Pagosa until 5:00 pm = Talked to Mr. Mack = Got horse shod in a.m. returned to Turkey at 8:30 p.m.
4 Hrs Grazing S&G
5 " M.& S.
July 9th
Went to Pens at 5:30 a.m. & counted 3 Bands of sheep 1 for Kinderman – Bald Mt Div =
Porforio Gallegos & Poro & Abran Martinez for Pine Dept = Returned to station for Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. = Rode over trail to top of hill where trail falls off to the River pushing sheep & put up 75 sheep driveway signs = returned to Turkey at 2:30 pm
Got dinner and sawed some wood and burned some rubbish around the station in p.m.
8 Hrs Grazing S&G
2 " H.Q.
July 10th
Went to Pens at 6 a.m. & counted Band of Kinderman sheep for Pine River
Counted Band of Jacquez sheep for Devil Mt Div = at 2 pm counted a Band for Quintana for Weminuche Div =
Left at 2:30 pm and came to Martinez Corrall and counted 2 Bands sheep for Sebedeo Martinez for Bioner ? Div = Went to W Camp at 5 pm = Read & filed mail until 7 p.m. =
10 Hrs Grazing S&G
2 " H.W. Mail
July 11th
Left W. Camp Sta at 6 a.m. and went to Sunetha & Counted one band of sheep for Ruybalid & Maez =
expecting to find the Gomez sheep there, but they had come up the Canon and come on to Martinez Corrall on Martinez Creek.
returned to the Martinez Corrall and counted the 4 Bands as they came along =
Rain delayed us about 2 Hours = Mr. Healey told me there was a tree across fone [sic] line north of station
went up and cleared that in the evening.
at Winter Camp over night =
10 Hrs Grazing S&G
1 " Maint Cimarrona Tel. Line
July 12th
Left W. Camp Sta at 6 a.m. for Turkey
Counted 1 Band of sheep for F.A. Martinez for Pine River = 1 Band for Vail Pondo ? for Big Sand Cr. Div and 2 Bands for Sargent for No. Fork Div. Stopt at Turkey for Dinner = Went to Devil Cr. in p.m. and took 4 logs out of the trail that I had left when clearing before =
returned to Turkey at 5 pm = and filed the Ribbon Saw before putting back in Fire Box =
6 Hrs Grazing S&G
5 " Maint Piedra Dvway Trail
1 " Maint E&S [this entry crossed out]
July 13th
Left Turkey RS at 8 a.m. & rode the Top of Devil Mt, Range of Onofre Jacquez =
could not locate him anywhere or could not find where he had got up on top = returned to Station at 3 p.m. = Counted one Band of sheep for Pedro Quintana going to the R.G. Forest
8 Hrs Grazing S&G
July 14th
Left Station at 7:30 a.m. and rode driveway to see that all sheep had gone down the hill = returned to Turkey thru the Jacques range found he had just moved camp=
Got dinner at Turkey and went to W. Camp arriving at 3 pm=
put a bunch of cattle out of WCamp pasture and fixed up the fence = worked in office getting mail ready to go out tomorrow =
5 Hrs Grazing S&G
3 " Unclassfd=
? " H.Q.
July 15
Left WCamp at 6 a.m. & went to Martinez Corrall and counted 3 Bands of Sargents sheep = returned home at 10:30 a.m. =
Got dinner and left at 12 noon & went up thru the west cattle range to Voorhis ranch
there counted 200 fence posts that they had made = got 6159 ? contracts signed up= Went on then thru the rest of the range and returned to WCamp at 6:10 pm
Not a pound of salt on the West Div at the present time
All Salt Grounds accept [sic] Mrs. Larson has had salt on them recently = as old signs show very plainly =
4 Hrs Grazing S&G
1 " I22 Sales
5 " Grazing C&H
July 16th
Horses broken into pasture last night Breaking fences down and Martinez cattle was inside and the horses had all gone out = fixed up the fence = ran the cattle out = And also had to get Healy to help catch my horses =
Left at 2 pm and went to Pagosa
there over night =
1 Hr Maint WCSPas.
5 " H.Q.
2 " M&S
July 17th= Sunday=
"No official work done"
July 18th
Went to Turkey after horse and pack outfit.
Went to Corrall but no sheep there
returned to W. Camp and shod up Macks old horse for a trip to summer sheep range and got pack outfit ready to leave 20th Bert Hethington will let me know in a.m. if can go with me=
Went up on fone line a fixed the line where tree had fallen across some time ago=
1 Hr Maint Cim Tel Line
3 " Unclassifd
2 " H.Q.
2 " Maint Pers. Owned Equip
July 19th
Went to Pagosa in a.m. with Healey for M&S & see if could find a man for a few days=
Lots of men but non [sic] would work and furnish a horse and board for $3.00 per day = returned home = & got Everett Dunagan to go with me =
Left at 12 noon & took up a load of salt to Range and posted and put out salt in 3 new salt grounds for H. Sharp-W Macht and L.Clark=
5 Hrs M& S
6 " G.I Salt Stock
"Grazing adm"
July 20
Left W. Camp at 8:15 a.m. with pack outfit and Everett Dunagan for the summer sheep range & to clean all trails =
Cleaned out 4 Mile trail to just below 4 Mile Lake and camped for night=
Came thru the Munoz and Larson sheep down on lower end of range
feed good= heavy rains here made the trail in bad shape = washing in rock and cutting out ditches=
4 Hrs Grazing Adm
5 " Maint 4 Mile & E.P. Trail
July 21
Finished cleaning out 4 Mile Trail past the Lakes and also down Dead Man Canon
Camping on Monument Div at night= Found one bunch of the Gomez sheep on East side of Dead Man Creek on East Fork Div= and the Dutton sheep down on side of the Piedra =
Grass extra good every where and lots of snow in the spruce
5 Hrs Maint 4 Mile and E.P. Trail
5 Hrs Grazing adm
July 22
Cleaned out the trail up thru the Monument Div = Showed JB Martinez men the lines of their range = also the Hersch sheep the lines they could go by = Valdez camped down in the bottom of Porphyry Div
Grass coming on good both on the north side of the Monument and on Porphyry Div =
Came on thru the Red Mt. Div found Hancock sheep camped up at the head of the Creek
grass good but short =
Cleaned the trail out from the Piedra up thru the canon called Red Mt Canon
Found one bunch of Gomez sheep on the head of West Fork had just moved in from the East Fork Div = Carminino? Ruybalid sheep on Rainbow =
showed him the lines and came over to Turkey Cr. Lake for the night=
3 Hrs Maint 4 Mi & EP Drway Trail
7 Hrs Grazing Adm
July 23 –
Left camp 7 a.m. & Came down Turkey Cr cleaning out the Trail as we came =
heavy rain at noon which delayed us about 2 hours but reached the cabin at foot of the hill at 5:30 pm = Trail in very bad shape as to logs – but not washed out very much =
camped at the Lorraine Cabin over night =
10 Hrs Maint Turkey Cr Trail –
July 24
Left the cabin at 7 a.m. & cleaned out logs from the Trail from cabin to where trail starts
reaching there at 1 pm
J.T. Martinez man and a boy was there at a sheep camp and worked with us all p.m. cleaning out the wagon road which is a part of the trail This p.m. work was all in the Treasure Dist = Camped at the Martinez Ranch on Snowball Cr over night =
Does not seem to be any cattle on the Martinez Range = find that they are all on the McGirr land and P.L. Cop land= Some are on the 4 Mile Div=
10 Hrs Maint T.C. Trail
July 25th
Left Snowball at 7 a.m. and came on down the road and thru the McGirr land and up 4 Mile wagon road to Cade Ranch = Used saw and axe out of Grouse fire box to clean trails = sharpened and greased both saw and axe when returning to the box = Stopped at Cade Ranch and cooked our dinner and returned home at 5 p.m.
Saw Munoz and Larson sheep on lower end of the range on line between Eagle and Kin [Quien?] Sabe = herder said was going to the high range about August 3 –
1 Hr Maint T.C. Trail –
8 " Grazing Adm
July 26
At home all day
dried out tent and bedding before putting away =
Cleaned up house and scrubbed out the kitchen = started to go to CPens but rained to hard so stayed at home and made up a new grazing map for the Dist =
McMain here in evening said would start on the hay as soon as the weather would permit = Called Mr French in evening and also McDaniels to see when he wanted me to come over there to scale?
2 Hrs Grazing Adm
6 " H.Q.
July 27
Went to Counting Pens to see if Hersch & Martinez sheep had come but could not see any signs of them – returned to W Camp went up on west cattle range in p.m. to see about salt = found salt on all grounds but 2 – and these were low down all high ground were well salted
returned home 5:30 pm
4 Hrs Graz S&G Count
4 " " C&H salt
July 28
Went to WE Nickell Reservoir to opet? some timber for him to use on down? – found some dead timber and also some insect killed timber that was not fit for sale – so issued him a free use – rode on thru the West Div – looking after the cattle –
at Jacobsons for dinner – feeling of the C&H permittees as to how they felt about a stock association – Think they will all be willing to join the next winter and get organized for another year – Jacobson and Bennett both put out salt during the week. Ch M? and W.O Dutton refuse to put out any at all –
returned home in the evening –
2 Hours Free Use
6 " Grazing Adm C&H Salt
July 29 –
Central Ofs called for me to count the Greene sheep –
told them to go one to range and McDaniels would count them later –
Jacobson came in asked me to go to town with him in buggy – at 11 a.m. –
Returned home 6 pm
3 Hrs H.Q.
5 " M&S
July 30 –
Went to CPens & counted 2 Bands of Hatcher sheep for Rio Grande &
returned home –
made up report in Ofs in p.m.
2 Hrs Graz S&G
6 " H.Q.
July 31
No official work performed X
July 31 Contd
At home until 3 pm = Saddled up and took Mack’s pack horse to Pagosa for Mr French to use
Aug – 1
At Pagosa until 10 a.m. when we saddled up and went to the San Juan Sta.
Got dinner there and Mr French – McDaniels and I left for the high range = Camping at a point just below the Boon [or Born] Lake
Camping at 6 pm
8 Hrs Grazing Adm S&G
Aug. -2
Broke camp at 7:20 a and riding up the West Fork = inspected West Fork Fire cache and on up West Fork Trail thru the River Peak Div= Ascend Cent. Trail to So. River Peak= Showing Mr. French and Ranger McDaniels the range and division lines
returning along the line between the River Peak and Red Mt. Divs and camping at 5:30 pm on the head of the Middle Fork of West Fork
10 Hrs Grazing Adm S&G
Aug 3-
Broke camp at 7:20 a.m. and came over thru the balance of the River Peak Div= to the Rainbow Div. and also looking over the East portion of the East Fork Div= and on thru Rainbow div to Saddle Mt. Div
camping at Turkey Creek Lake for the night=
9 Hrs Grazing Adm S&G
Aug. =4
Broke camp at 8 a.m. and coming on down Turkey Cr thru the Saddle Mt Sheep Div and the Turkey Cr C&H division= leaving Mr. French and Ranger McD at the south end of the Snowball Ranch
they went on over Jackson Mt to San Juan Sta= and I returned thru McGirr Ranch via Horhenstines and Harts and 4 Mile Cattle Range to Winter Camp= Stopped at Harts for supper and returned home 8:10 pm
10 Hrs Grazing Adm S&G
Aug 5
At home all day
Got out some mail for mail carrier =
Worked in office straightening up mail –
8 Hrs H.Q.
Aug 6
Well Driller left at 9 a.m. for home for repairs to outfit=
Rained hard all afternoon = Worked in office and around Station
Read & filed mail
8 Hrs H.Q.
Aug 7 =
Made up a map of 35NR320 for Range appraisal Work in a.m. –
4 Hrs Range Appl
4 " Sunday
Aug 8th
Worked around H.Q. mowing the lawn and other station work – Mr French came in at noon as [sic] was here over night
8 Hr H.Q.
Aug 9 –
Left at 8 a.m. with Supr. French and went to the Bridge Sta – there for dinner
Mr Beals left with us at 2 pm and we went to Cimarrona Sta – there for the night
8 Hrs Grazing Adm
Aug 10
Left Cimarrona Sta 8 a.m. & went up the Williams Cr Trail
Stopt at Rodriguez sheep camp for dinner
went up in Cont. Divide and followed trail around to head of Squaw Cr
camping for the night with the Rio Grande Trail crew =- connecting ? of 2 men – Mr Child and Mr Branch
8 Hrs Grazing Adm
Aug 11 –
Left camp 8 a.m. and went along divide looking over the Weminuche Div to Snowslide Canon going down this to the Granite Peak R.S. on Pine River – camping there for the night –
8 Hrs Grazing Adm
Aug 12
Left camp 8 a.m. & went down Pine River stopping at Trail Camp for dinner=
Mr French left us at mouth of East Cr
he going to Vallecito R.S. for the night =
we went up East Cr Trail looking for a place to camp and could not find a camping place until we reached the top of the divide in the last park in the trail.
This is the worst over grazed C&H range on the Forest. went into camp at 6:30 pm
10 Hrs Graz Adm
Aug 13 –
Left camp at 7:45 a.m. & went around P.P. sheep Driveway across the head of Cold Water Cr to the head of Sand Cr and down Sand Cr to the Piedra River and up Piedra to Bridge Sta. there for the night –
8 Hrs Grazing Adm
Aug 14 = Sunday
Left Bridge Sta at 2 pm and arrvd WCamp Sta 5 pm=
Gomez sheep Boss was waiting for me when I came in said the Dutton sheep had eaten out part of their range. told him to go ahead and use what was left and during the mean time see JT Martinez and Juan Aragon to see if they would not let him use a part of their range as they had more range than they needed acct being short of sheep this year
3 Hrs Graz Adm
Aug 15
At home all day
Cleaned house –
Mowed lawn= in a.m.. Made up maps for Range Appraisal for Tp 36NR3 and 4W =
Tp 35NR2 and 2 ½ W in p.m.
4 Hrs Range Appl
4 " H.Q.
Aug 16th
At home waiting for the well drillers to come to settle the Dispute with them but not in yet
Made up range appl maps for 36-2 ½=
Raked lawn and carried away the hay –
Mr Johnson called at 3 pm & I went to town with him for mail & supplies returned at 5:30 pm= read & filed mail
4 Hrs Range appl
2 " M&S
2 " H.Q.
Valdez herder came in & asked for more range said was short
gave him permission to come down on the Kin [Quien?] Sabe – said would come down about the 1st or sooner
Aug 17
Went over the West C&H Range to see about Salt = Found plenty of salt on all high Salt Grounds = none on the low ones
8 Hrs Graz C&H Adm
Aug 18
Went over the Park C&H Range in a.m. to see how much salt was out and found plenty on all grounds
Worked on Range Appl Maps in p.m.
4 Hrs Graz C&H
4 " Range Appls
August 19th
Making maps or outlines for Range Appraisal – 37-2--38-1--37-1--38-2 also 34-2=
Rained hard in p.m.
8 Hrs Range Appl
Aug 20
At home all day
mail carrier came at noon = read and filed mail = finished making up outline for maps for use in field on Range Appl. work =
Well Drillers came last p.m. after their outfit –
I did not have the casing installed as the water was so hard and is the same as that now found in the creek = stored the 3 pcs of casing in the barn for future use or to sell=
2 Hrs Range appls
6 " H.Q.
August 21 – Sunday
No official work done
August 22
Raining hard and rained all night so saddled up and went to town
Rained all day & late in evening –
stayed in town all night –
2 Hrs H.Q.
6 Hrs M&S
Aug 23
Left Pagosa at 9 a.m. and came home via Lyod ? Clarks
talked him and stayed for dinner and returned home 3 p.m. – Too muddy to go any where or do much =
Light rain in evening –
6 Hrs M&S
2 Hrs Unclassfd
Aug 24
So muddy in a.m. did not go out and it started raining again right after noon
at home all day
odd jobs around home
8 Hrs H.Q.
Aug 25
Left Sta at 8:15 a.m. and went up thru Pagosa Div taking notes and triangulating for Range appl – maps – returned home at 6:15 pm=
10 Hrs Range Appl
August 26
Took balance of gate track to Turkey Spgs – saw sheep tracks going down & followed them up and found bunch of Candelaria sheep going down acct of so much foot-rot
rode thru the Jacks lambing ground home – worked on maps in p.m.
At home balance of the day
2 Hrs Graz Adm
4 " Range Appl
2 " Unclassfd
August 27
Worked at home all day = Crane came in with mail at noon and here for dinner until 2 pm = Read & filed mail in p.m. and worked on maps –
6 Hrs H.Q.
2 " Range Appl
August 28 Sunday
August 29
Left Sta at 7:45 a.m. & went across thru the 4 Mile Div C&H to Hart Ranch and also at Hortenstines = at Hortenstines for dinner = Went over on Kin [Quien?] Sabe in PM. to see if Valdez sheep were down so could show them the line of the range – but not in yet=
returned to Harts for the night =
8 Hrs Grazing Adm
Aug 30 –
Left Hart Ranch at 8 a.m. & went up road to Cade Ranch found Hancock sheep camped at the Harris Cabin on the Driveway – moved them back on the Pagosa Div – came on thru the West C&H Div home – arrvd home at 2:30 p. Made up reports in p.m.
6 Hr Grazing Adm
2 " H.Q.
August 31 –
To Bridge Sta today via Turkey Spgs & Sheep Driveway and up Piedra River to punch sheep along if any on the Trail –
8 Hrs Grazing Adm
October 18 1921
This diary has been reviewed by me
HC French
Forest Supervisor
San Juan National Forest daybook, Pagosa Ranger District, December 1 – 15, 1921.
Thursday Dec. 1, 1921
Hauled hay all day from 8:00 till 5:00 p.m. stopping one hour for noon.
Maint Per equip. (forage) 8 hrs
Friday Dec. 2, 1921
Not enough snow to haul any more hay so mixed some poison pellets and got traps and rode down canyon where coyotes are traveling and set traps using scent I had made and scattering pellets in trail. Returned to Station at 6:00 p.m.
Unclassified 9 hrs
Saturday Dec. 3, 1921
Left Station at 8:00 and rode to traps and poison baits. Nothing disturbed and no fresh tracks. Set three mink traps and returned to Station at 2:00 p.m. Had dinner and left Sta. at 3:00 for mail and supplies returning from P.O. at 5:00 p.m.
Unclassified 6 hrs
M. and S. (field) 2 hrs
Sunday Dec. 4, 1921
Left Sta. at 10:00 a.m. and rode to Pagosa Springs for supplies and to pay personal bills. Arrived Pagosa Springs at 4:00 p.m. and took care of horses
M. & S. (not field) 5 hrs
Monday Dec. 5, 1921
Started at 8:00 and paid bills, posted mail and did personal trading
M.& S. (not field) 8 hrs
Tuesday Dec. 6, 1921
Left Pagosa at 8:00 for Bridge Station arriving at 3:00 p.m. Fed horses, thawed out water and split wood till 5:00 p.m.
M.and S. 6 hrs
Hdq 2 hrs
Wednesday Dec. 7, 1921
Left Station at 8:00 and rode to traps. 3 poison baits carried away and followed tracks till I lost them on the ice. Tracks near trap site but not close. Returned to Station at noon and filed mail, put new pages in Fire Manual and stopped hole in Granary where mice were getting in and set trap in a pail of oats for pack rat.
Unc[lassified?] 4 hrs
Hdq 4 hrs
Thursday Dec. 8, 1921
Started at 8:00 and made up fire maps report of corners and got other mail ready and took it to P.O. Returned to Station at noon. Left Sta. at 1:00 and rode to traps. Every poison pellet gone, taken by birds as near as I could tell. Cox said I might have a dead sheep to use for bait. Returned to Station at 5:00 p.m.
M. & S. (field) 2 hrs
Hdq 2 hrs
Unclass. 4
Friday Dec. 9, 1921
Ray Maloy called me up and wanted me to take a vaccine blank up to the road so as to get it out with Crane. Made it out and caught horse and rode to road and posted it with Crane. Got piece of raw hide at Kleckner’s on my way home to make scabbard. Returned to Sta. at 11:00 a.m. and chopped wood till noon. Left Sta. at 1:00 and rode to trap. No luck. Caught a crow in one. Returned to Station at 5:00 p.m. Saw where a big buck deer had crossed the creek below the Station and gone on over the ridge.
Unc. 8 hrs
Saturday Dec 10, 1921
Caught pack rat last night in trap at house. Left Station and rode to traps. Got one coyote with poison and sold it to Cox when I returned at noon. Left Station at 1:00 and went to Cox’s and got team to haul grub from P.O. Got grub when Crane got in and returned to Station at 6:00 p.m. Cox came with me and took team home.
Unc. 4 hrs
M & S (not field) 5 hrs
Sunday Dec. 11, 1921
No official duties performed.
Monday Dec. 12, 1921
Left Station at 8:00 and took out more poison baits and visited traps. Scent doesn’t seem to attract coyotes like it should. Returned to Station at noon and left at 1:00 and went to Cranes to return borrowed sugar and get potatoes. Rode on up with him to Webbs cellar to get spuds and get Xmas tree. Saw Mr. Davis there and he had a tale of woe to tell as usual. He wanted to know why McManus could fence east of the tp [township?] line when he had no land on that side. I explained to Mr. Davis that no one knew just which tp line that one was; that there should be two there a little less than ¼ mile apart but there were no indications of but one; that McManus’ land checked out O.K. when surveyed from genuine corners in tp 37 N3W but would not if surveyed from any corner in tp 37 N2W. I told Mr. Davis I would survey his daughters’ land from any genuine corner in tp 37 N2W if he wanted to fence it. Returned to Station at 6:00 p.m.
Unc. 5 hrs
M & S. (not field) 4 hrs
Tuesday Dec. 13, 1921
Started at 8:00 and hauled hay all day from the Cox place.
Main. Pers. Equip. 8 hrs
Wednesday Dec. 14, 1921
Started at 8:00 and hauled hay all day.
Maint. Per. Equip. 8 hrs
Thursday Dec 15, 1921
Started at 8:00 and made out expense acc’t for November and Dec. mailed diaries for the entire year. Wrote letter to Ranger Bennett on the Rio Grande concerning strayed cattle and took mail to P.O. returning at 5:00 p.m.
Hdq. 5 hrs
M.& S. hrs (field)
Dec. 16 to 31
Annual leave.
Last page stamped:
FOREST SERVICE
SAN JUAN NATIONAL FOREST
DURANGO, COLORADO
JAN 2 1922
RECEIVED
Answered ___________________
San Juan National Forest daybook, September 10, 1922 – September 30, 1922. Author unknown; very legible penmanship. Marilyn Brown, transcriber, July 2004. Interesting tidbits: Twin Buttes fire Sept 26ff.
Diary
Sept. 10, 1922 to Sept. 29, 1922 wel
Form 876
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
________________ National Forest
____________________Fire
_________________________, 191
Name _______________________
Title ________________________
8-3008
Forest Service U.S. Department of Agriculture
Official Business
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PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE, $300
THE FORESTER,
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
WASHINGTON, D.C.
This book is Government property. The finder is requested to deliver it to any officer of the Forest Service, or to mail it without postage by pasting or tying this sheet on the outside cover of the book.
8-3008
Sunday Sept. 10, 1922
No official duties performed.
X
Monday Sept 11, 1922
Packed up mule with trail boys grub, my bed and grub and left Bridge Sta. at 8:00 and rode to Cimarrona R.S. arriving at 11:00 p.m.[sic]. Had dinner and then went down to corner of pasture and took tools out of Cimarrona fire box and then tore box to pieces, taking off the zinc and caching it and burning the balance. Packed tools up to station and watched fire to see that it didn’t spread in the dry grass. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Fire prevention 4 hrs
Williams trail Imp cont. 4 hrs
Tuesday Sept. 12, 1922
Packed up mule at 8:00 and took load of grub to trail crew, inspected trail and lined out more for them to do and then returned to Sheep camp fire box where I took out tools, tore up box, cached zinc and piled boards for boys to burn in camp. Packed up tools and went on down to Cimarrona Station unpacking there and storing them in the house Quit at 6:00 p.m.
Imp C.(Williams Trail) 4 hrs
F. Prevention 5 hrs
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 1922
Caught both mules and put pack saddles on them and went up to trail camp and made two trips moving their camp on down to big park where fire box was and returned to Cimarrona at 7:00 p.m.
Imp. C (Williams trail) 10 hrs
Thursday Sept. 14, 1922
Packed up bed enough for two and my camp outfit and left Cim. at 8:00 and rode up Williams Trail with extra horse for Raush to ride. Picked him up at camp and we continue on up the trail to head of Creek where we made camp and turned horses loose. Had dinner and then worked on trail all p.m. rebuilding monuments etc. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Imp C (Williams trail) 8 hrs
Friday Sept. 15, 1922
Worked on trail from 8:00 till noon finishing it to Continental Divide Packed up 1:00 p.m. and took continental trail around to head of middle fork where I mapped sub types and then around the round mountain and into the vegas at the head of what I call Big Draw and camped for the night.
Imp C (Williams trail) 4 hrs
Range App. 4 hrs
Saturday Sept. 16, 1922
Packed up at 7:00 and rode down Big Draw to Williams Creek and on down to Cimarrona where I changed horses and rode over onto Weminuche to Patterson place and took tools out of Weminuche fire box and packed them on the mule. Saw Patterson and he said he would haul the box in the evening as he came in from the hay field. Returned to Cimarrona R.S. at 7:00 p.m.
Range App. 3 hrs
Fire Prevention 8 hrs
Sunday, Sept. 17, 1922
Caught both mules and horse and left Cimarrona at 8:00 and made two trips with trail camp into Cimarrona R.S. Finished at 6:00 p.m.
Imp. C. (Williams trail) 9 hrs
Monday Sept 18, 1922
Caught horse and mule and rode to Timber hill fire box and took out tools and tore up fire box. Burning the wood and caching the zinc Watched the fire till it was out and returned to Cim. Station at 6:00 p.m. Cold drizzly rain all day; snowed on the peaks. Norris came about 8:00 p.m. to haul the outfit down.
F. Prevention 9 hrs
Tuesday Sept. 19, 1922
Loaded wagon and then caught horses and mule and left Cimarrona at 9:00 a.m. Rode to Bridge R.S. arriving at 12:00 and got dinner for the boy who came about 1:00. Had dinner and then unloaded equipment that belonged here and then left for Pagosa Spgs about 2:00 Arrived Pagosa Spgs at 8:00 p.m.
Imp. C (Williams trail) 5 hrs
Fire Prevention 5 hrs
Wednesday Sept. 20, 1922
Had Norris hook up at 8:00 and he unloaded trail boys beds and personal equipment and then we hauled the fire equipment out of the 4 boxes out to San Juan R.S. and checked them over to Mrs. McDaniel. Returned to Pagosa at 12:00 noon. Had dinner and then did personal trading till 5:00 p.m.
F. Prevention 4 hrs
M. and S. (not field) 4 hrs
Thursday Sept 21, 1922
Left Pagosa Spgs at 9:00 after paying hotel bill and barn bill and rode to Bridge Sta. arriving at 4:00 p.m. Read last weeks mail and watered lawn till 5:00 p.m.
F. Prevention 3 hrs
M. and S. 4 hrs
Hdq. (misc office) 1 hr
Friday Sept 22, 1922
Made out card for report in L. Settlement case and saddled horse at 7:30 and rode to P.O. and posted it to Forest Super. Returned to Station at 9:00 and stamped and filed last weeks mail, and then worked on range appraisal maps till 5:00 p.m.
M. and S. (field) 1 hr
Hdq (misc office) 2 hrs
Range App. 5 hrs.
Saturday Sept 23, 1922
Started at 8:00 and worked on Range appraisal maps till 5:00 p.m.
Range App. 8 hrs
Sunday Sept. 24, 1922
No official duties save getting mail at P.O.
X
Monday Sept. 25, 1922
Started at 8:00 and read and filed mail got yesterday, wrote letter about Williams Crk trail, made out time slips for Kleckners pack saddle and George Norris hauling, wrote reply to O. Personnel letter regarding transfer and then worked on range App. maps till 3:00 when I quit that and studied up on June 11 claims and L. Settlement work before starting work on Churchills application Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Hdq. (misc off) 3 hrs
Range App. 3 hrs
L. Adj 2 hrs
Tuesday Sept. 26, 1922
Got compass, chain, and mapping tools together and caught horse at 8:00 and soon Churchill came and we rode to ¼ corner on the north of Sec. 16 37N.3 went and surveyed from there up into flat below bridge, from where we noticed at smoke up under Twin Buttes. We then rode on up to Williams fire box to get tools and found that someone had broken into the box since the 19th when I traded saws in this box and they had stolen 1 axe, 1 gal coal oil and canteen, 2 water canteens, 1 water bag and 1 water bucket, 1 file and 1 first aid packet. No tracks were to be found as it had rained yesterday. We took two shovels and sealed up box and rode to fire arriving at 2:00 p.m. Found that lightning had struck a large D. fir and had run down it and then jumped to a dead snag and set it afire. It was about 20’ in diameter and burning brishkly. We trenched fire and had it controlled by 2:30 when we ate our lunch and then I stayed with it till 6:00 p.m. when it had all died down but a few coals. As I had no grub I rode to Bridge R.S. arriving at 8:00 p.m.
L. Adj 2 hrs
Fire supp. 10 hrs
Wednesday September 27, 1922
Left Station at 7:00 a.m. and rode back to fire. Arrived at fire at 9:00 and found it almost dead. It had not escaped the trench we had dug. Stayed with the fire till 3:00 p.m. when it hailed and rained pretty hard and put it completely out. Left fire at 3:00 and rode back to Bridge R.S. and worked on maps till 6:00.
Fire Supp (Twin Buttes) 9 hrs
Range App. 1 hrs
Thursday September 28, 1922
Had a chance to ride to Pagosa with Roy Cox and as phone was out on 45 line I went with him Watched phone line all the way down but could find nothing wrong. Did personal trading in town and left with Cox at 3:00 p.m. arriving at Station at 5:30. Met French and Carhart as we were going down.
M. and S. (not field) 4 hrs
Imp M (Cim. Tel line) 4 hrs
Friday Sept. 29, 1922
Churchill came down at 8:00 and we rode to Williams Creek and finished running preliminary lines so as to see where the land layed [sic]. Will run true lines and do the mapping
(over)
tomorrow. Came back to Bridge at 5:00 p.m.
L. Adj. 8 hours
Saturday Sept. 30, 1922
Churchill came down at 8:00 and we rode to ¼ corner on north of Sec. 16 and ran 20 chains north and then 10 chains west to southeast corner of land to be classified. Then ran the true boundary lines, establishing corners and also ran traverse for road exemption. Returned to Station at 6:00 p.m.
Land Adj. 9 hours
[Numerical scribblings on last page]
San Juan National Forest daybooks, June 1 – September 30, 1924, and December 1-31, 1924. Marilyn Brown, transcriber, December 2003. Highlights: first mention of a car (‘flivver’), June 11; forest fire on Middle Mountain, June 17ff; number of sheep counted this year: . 48,860, July 15.
Sunday, June 1, 1924
No official duties performed.
X
Monday, June 2, 1924
Left station at 7:00 a.m. and rode down canyon to driveway and rode up it to top of mountain. Found sheep tracks on outside of fence and so I hunted around and found Larsen’s camp inside the pasture and gave him a good jacking-up and then rode on over to Devil Mt. Trail and up it to the firebox in head of Park ? Brought fire box up to standard and ate lunch there. Still a little snow in this country and feed is just starting. Rode on down Devil Mt. Trail to First Fork pasture and up the Piedra trail to Bridge Sta arriving at 6:00 p.m. See grazing notebook for notes
Graz Adm (inspection) 5 hours
Fire Pre (caches) 5 "
Tuesday, June 3, 1924
Started at 8:00 and filed an accumulation of 2 weeks mail and checked over job list and cleaned up office work. Then painted sign posts one coat after shaping them up and put screen doors on house. Patterson returned from Weminuche at 6:00 p.m. and I helped him unpack. He said Samuels had put all his cattle on the Settlement Division. I’ll have to go up there and straighten him out. I told them not to put more than 30 head over there.
Hdq (misc. office) 5 hours
Imp const (signposts) 3 "
Wednesday, June 4, 1924
Left station at 8:00 a.m. and rode up Williams Creek to Ludwig place and inquired for young Samuels. He had left there about a half hour before I got there, so I left and rode pretty well over the division hunting him but didn’t find him until noon. Told him he could not run more than 48 head in connection with the 480 acres of private land and that he would have to bring all but 73 head back on the Drift Fence Div. The boy said he would come down and phone his father to come up and they would straighten it out. Came on back via the Weminuche. Saw several head of Toners, Martins, and Thayer’s cattle on Weminuche. Returned to station at 6:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (super) 9 hours
Thursday June 5, 1924
Left station at 7:30 a.m. and Patterson and I rode down to where we are building new piece of trail and worked on it until noon when we finished that. Patterson went on down the trail and I returned to Sta and caught black mare and left station at 1:00 p.m.
Rode down to Martinez corral and counted 1061 head of sheep for Hersch Merc Co. Returned to Winter Camp R.S. and inspected telephone and fire tool cache. (OK)
Then returned to Sta at 6:30 p.m. After supper I made list of equipment to take down the canyon and wrote letter of instructions for trail foreman and gave him time slips.
Imp M. (Piedra Trail) 5 hours
Graz Adm (counting) 5 "
Friday, June 6, 1924
Left station at 7:00 a.m. and took mail to mail box on the road and posted it. Then came back via Reeds and got snow scale No. 252 and brought it back to station. Packed up trail crew’s camp and tools and left station again at 8:30 and rode down trail to a point about half way between Weminuche and Sand Creek where we established camp. Had dinner and got men started out and then I left for station arriving at 4:30 p.m. then shod buckskin mule all around and made a schedule for trip to Cimarrona and got camp outfit and tools together. Quit at 6:00 p.m.
M and S (field) 1 hour
Research S and P (weather) 1 "
Imp Maint (Piedra Trail) 7 "
Maint :P.O.E. (shoeing) 1 "
Saturday, June 7, 1924
Packed up and left Sta at 8:00 a.m. and rode to Cimarrona Ranger Station arriving at noon. Cleaned up house and got lunch and then worked on fence until 6:00 p.m. when I finished it.
Imp Main (Cim fence) 9 hours
Sunday, June 8, 1924
Left Cimarrona Station at 7:00 a.m. and rode down to Ludwig ranch. They had not eaten breakfast yet. Waited until they ate and then Ludwig, young Samuels, Ludwig’s man, and I left there and rode the entire drift fence div. posting salt grounds from one to seven inclusive. Range is dryer this time of year than I ever saw it. Returned to Cimarrona at 5:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (inspection) 9 hours
Monday, June 9, 1924
Packed up and left Cimarrona at 7:30 a.m. and rode up into Poison Park and set up snow scale No 252 and made report on its location. Then rode on down to Bridge R.S. arriving at 12:30. Had lunch and then went to Stevens for mail he was to bring out for me Sunday. Returned to Station at 3:30 and read mail, wrote up grazing notebook, filed new pages in the handbooks and made list of equipment to take to Turkey Springs
Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Research S and P (weather) 5 hours
M and S (field) 2 "
Hdq (misc office) 2 "
Tuesday, June 10, 1924
Got all horses that I wanted to take to Turkey Springs and an extra to ride back and left for Turkey at 8:00 a.m. Turned horses loose in pasture at Turkey and put saddles etc. in house and then left and rode to Bennetts place to see if he could help me repair the counting pens and reservoir. He thought he could.
While there I gave Bennett and Bonnill free use permits and had dinner (no charge). Left there at 1:00 and rode to Bridge R. Station arriving at 3:00 p.m. Worked until 5:00 getting the rest of my outfit together, to take to Turkey. Worked from 7:00 p.m. till 9:00 p.m. on the copies of 468 for Loring and Maloy.
Graz Adm (count) 7 hrs
F ? and Adm use 1 "
Fire Pre (plan) 2 "
Wednesday, June 11, 1924
Loaded up flivver and locked up buildings and left Bridge Sta at 8:00 a.m. and drove to Turkey Spgs arriving at 10:00 a.m.
Unloaded and stored stuff away and caught horse and saddled up. Then ate lunch and left Turkey Spgs at 12:00 and rode telephone line between here and main line. Found line broken in two places and six poles down Rode line on into Pagosa and found broken cross arm and cross between 27 and 45 in Dutton Park. Arrived Pagosa Spgs at 4:00 p.m. and did personal trading until 6:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (count) 4 hrs.
Imp Maint (Cim line) 4 "
M and S (not field) 2 "
Thursday, June 12, 1924
Went up town at 7:00 a.m. and bought soft wire for pens, stove pipe for Turkey,
Saw Tim? about line and he said he would repair it if I would haul him out and back. Told him I would. Left Pagosa at 11:00 a.m. and rode to Bennetts’ place to tell him to come down to Turkey in the morning to go to work. He said he couldn’t get away until Monday so I rode back down to Seibels and got him to come tomorrow.
Arrived Turkey Spgs at 5:00 p.m. I had supper and then got mail ready to go and wrote note to French about Jaquez 861.
M and S (field) 4 hours
Imp M. (counting pens) 4 "
Friday, June 13, 1924
Seibel came down at 8:00 and I put him to work cutting poles for repair of the counting pens and then I went to work on the telephone line between here and Winter Camp. Returned to Station at 5:00 p.m. and switched on and found line O.K. with the exception of a cross in 45 and 27.
Imp Maint. (telephone line) 8 hours
Saturday, June 14, 1924
Left Station at 8:00 and worked on main line of telephone, took cross out and went on into Pagosa and tested line and still found it crossed up.
Paid personal bills and did some trading.
Imp Maint. (telephone line) 7 hrs
M. and S. (field) 1 "
Sunday, June 15, 1924
Left Pagosa at 7:00 a.m. and drove to Turkey Spgs and counted one bunch of Hersch Merc Co. At 4:00 p.m. I counted another bunch for them through the Martinez corrals.
Graz. Adm (counting) 4 hrs.
Monday, June 16, 1924
Went up to pens at 6:a.m. and counted Tino Garcia. Returned to station and had breakfast and at 8:00 I started Bennett and Seibel to work on the corrals and I counted J.S. Rodriquez one bunch. Then rode across to Martinez corrals and counted another bunch for Hersch Merc. Co. Returned to Turkey at 2:00 p.m. and worked until 5:00 p.m. on corrals.
After supper I made out copies of counting slips.
Graz Adm (counting) 5 hrs.
Imp Maint (counting pens) 5 "
Tuesday, June 17, 1924
Went up to corrals at 8:00 a.m. and counted one bunch of Mercure and Cardova and another little bunch for Kinderman.
Then got in flivver and drove to Bridge R.S. and caught horse and rode to P.O. and got mail and returned to station and rode on down Piedra Canyon and inspected maintenance work of trail crew. They have been doing a mighty good job. Worked with them until 5:00 p.m. when we finished. I then started to make out allotment report when I got a phone call from Central who said that Mrs. Whitead had been trying to call me all afternoon about a fire on Devil Mt. From where she said it was when I called her (1 ½ miles northwest of Snow’s ranch) I thought it must be about in the Beaver Lake country. I then called Loring and talked to him and Peters. I told them that I would start for Turkey Spgs right away and would call them from Whiteads to tell them where I thought it was. I got down within a mile of Whiteads’ place and found that my oil petcock had come open and I had lost all my oil. I had to leave the flivver and walk to Whiteads’ where I called Peters and Loring and told them where I thought the fire was and that I would come down in the morning.
borrowed a horse there and rode out on the point south of Whiteads where I could see better and decided that I would go to the fire as soon as I could get to Turkey Spgs and catch my horse and mule. So I rode on to Station and caught my horse and mule and packed up bed, grub, etc and then called Central to tell him to tell my wife that I had gone to a fire. He said Mack had been calling me so I had him locate Mack and I told him where I thought the fire was and asked him what to do about the sheep while I was gone. He said to leave instructions for them to wait for me. I then rode up to the Chriss Mt fire tool box and packed up tools and left word with Tino Garcia, was camped close, to hold any sheep until I got back. I then left the fire box for the fire and rode down Devil Creek to Snow’s ranch arriving at 10:30 p.m. I woke them up and they did not know of a fire. I got Henry Snow to go with me from there and we rode up west Devil Creek to the trail leading up Middle Mountain. We had quite a time locating the fire but found it at 12:00 p.m. Unpacked and tied up horse and mules and immediately walked around the fire. Could not see any lightning work nor tracks. Found it spread over about 5 acres. Snow and I went to work then on the most dangerous places and by 3:00 a.m. we had the fire under control. Then we started burying with moist dirt the worst logs. Loring and Peters arrived at 4:00 a.m. and we all worked on it then until 10:30 a.m. when Loring and Peters and Snow left. I stayed on the fire until 1:15 p.m. and there wasn’t a lick ? of live fire left at that time and the wind had been blowing since 10:00 a.m. Let the fire at 1:15 and rode across the Mt into east? Devil Creek and on to Turkey Spgs arriving at 2:30 p.m. I then got something to eat and laied [sic] down for a nap. Patterson and Archie Toner came down at 3:30 p.m. and I helped them unload and talked with them and Newt Jack. I then laid down again and went to sleep but waked up when Mack called. I told him about the fire and he told me about the fire below town. I then went to bed 6:30 p.m. for the night.
Graz Adm (counting ) 2 hours
M and S (field) 2 "
Imp Maint (Piedra trail) 4 "
Fire Suppression 7 hours
total 15 hours
Wednesday June 18, 1924
Fire Suppression 14 hours.
Thursday, June 19, 1924
Left Station at 8:00 and rode over to Whiteads and left his horse I had borrowed and walked on over to where I left the flivver and filled it with oil and drove on down to Ben Martinez and we ran in his sheep and counted them and then I drove on up to Jose Martinez corral. Had quite a time getting his sheep to the corral but got them counted at noon and I left and drove to Turkey Spgs R.S. to count Jaquez and Munoz. Jaquez didn’t want to go through until day after tomorrow so I moved him down where Onofre was on Newton and hunted up Munoz. He wasn’t able to make the corral this evening so I made a date with him for 7:00 a.m. in the morning. Then returned to counting pens and worked with Seibel and Bennett on dam until 5:00 p.m. when I quit.
Graz Adm (counting) 6 hrs
Imp Maint (counting pens) 2 "
Friday, June 20, 1924
Went up to counting pens at 6:30 a.m. and counted Munoz. Then left and rode down Devil Creek to Snows ranch and from there on up to the fire. Rode all over it and found it completely out. Returned to Snows and made out time slip for Henry Snow and paid for meal I got at 10:30 the other evening.
Left there at 11:30 a.m. and rode down to O’Neal park road and up it boundary and posted sign ? there.
Rode driveway from Butchers on up to Turkey Springs. Found Jaquez camp and told him I’d count him at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow.
Arrived Turkey Springs at 3:30 p.m. and had dinner. At 4:30 I started and made out allotment report and time slips for Seibel and Bennett. At 5:30 I left and drove to Bennetts for butter and eggs and had him sign voucher
Returned to Station at 7:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (counting) 3 hours
Fire Supp (Middle Mt.) 5 "
Uncl (hdq at T. Spgs) 1 "
M and S (not field) 2 "
Saturday, June 21, 1924
Went up to counting pens at 7:00 a.m. and counted T. Jaquez.
Returned to Station at 8:00 and rode from there to Devil Mt Trail to help Patterson while Toner went to Durango.
Worked all day on trail completing it at 4:30 p.m. Returned to Turkey Springs at 5:30 p.m.
Graz Adm (counting) 1 hour
Imp. Maint (Devil Mt trail) 8 "
Sunday, June 22, 1924
No official duties performed.
X
Monday, June 23, 1924
Went up to counting pens at 7:00 a.m. and counted B. Lopez and Sargent. Then rode up driveway to corral on driveway behind pasture fence and counted L. Larson.
Returned to Station at 4:00 p.m. and went up to corral and counted Kinderman and Rodriquez. Returned to Station at 6:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (counting) 10 hours
Tuesday, June 24, 1924
Went up to corrals at 7:00 a.m. and counted Munoz dry bunch and then returned to Station and shod bay horse in front and made copies of counting slips up to date. Ate early lunch and left Station and rode down driveway and on over to Jacks camp and counted him. Then returned to count J. M. Chavez but he didn’t reach the pens before dark. Returned to Station at 8:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (counting) 12 hours
Wednesday, June 25, 1924
Went up to pens at 6:30 a.m. and counted two bunches for E.I. Sargent (J.M. Chavez) and then returned to station and made out counting slips and got them ready to mail. Then made out fire report for Middle Mt. fire and time slip for Henry Snow and Archie Toner. Ate dinner and went up to counting pens and counted J.V. Quintana and waited for Gallegos but they didn’t reach the corrals before dark.
Returned to Sta at 7:30
Graz Adm (counting) 8 hours
Fire Supp (report) 3 "
Unc [Unclassified] (hdq at T.S.) 1 "
Thursday, June 26, 1924
Left Station at 6:30 a.m. and went up to corrals and counted Nicolas Rodriquez and Onecito Gallegos. Then left for Devil Mt to try to catch Atencio. He had misunderstood me and thought that I would count him on top the Mt. I couldn’t catch him as he had already gone down to the river. I told Newt. Jack to tell him to go on to his range, as I knew his certificate was O.K. and that I would notify Vanapen ?? about it. Had to jack up Daniel Martinez for not staying on the trail. He had cut a wide circle through Tino Garcia’s range.
Returned to counting pens at 2:00 p.m. and found Robenstein there to inspect Jaquez and Martinez. He also went from here to Mrs. Larsen’s place to count and inspect her little bunch. Then I hunted up Gallegos and told him he could count now or in the morning. He wanted to wait till morning. Manzanares came at 4:30 and I told him that on account of the congestion here at the pens, I would count him tomorrow on the trail up Devil Creek. Suited him O.K. J.M. Chavez and Tino Garcia and Manzanares were here for supper. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (counting) 5 hours
Graz " (driveway supervision) 5 "
Friday, June 27, 1924
Went up to corrals at 6:00 and counted two bunches for E. Gallegos and two bunches for F. Lopez. Then came back to Sta and caught horse and rode up driveway to corrals on top of the mountain and counted 1 bunch for Abeyta and 2 bunches for Manzanares and then rode over to big corral in Hotts? pasture and counted Mrs. Larson’s little bunch. Then left and returned to Turkey Springs via Bennett’s ranch where I got grub my wife had sent out. Returned to Turkey Springs at 5:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (counting) 5 hours
Graz Adm (driveway super) 5 "
Saturday, June 28, 1924
Went up to corrals at 6:00 a.m. and counted 2 bunches for Ed. Sargent and 1 bunch for O. Jaquez.
Then came to Station and got mail ready and left for Martinez corrals where I counted 1 bunch for Hersch Merc. 1 bunch for Feliciano Valdez and 1 bunch for J.C. Gomez. Then drove on into Pagosa Spings arriving at 4:00 p.m. Did personal trading and got bath. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (counting) 8 hours
M and S (not field) 2 "
Sunday, June 29, 1924
Left Pagosa Springs at 8:00 a.m. and drove to Gomez corrals in Dutton Park and counted 3 bunches for them. Had dinner there and then drove to Turkey Springs and counted 1 bunch for B.A. Rodriquez. Had a good rain to-day [sic].
Graz Adm (counting) 6 hours
Monday, June 30, 1924
Went up to corrals at 6:30 a.m. and counted 2 bunches for J.S. Rodriquez 1 bunch for P. Ortiz and 1 bunch for N. Luna and 1 bunch for B.A. Rodriquez. Told Luna I would show him his allotment boundaries tomorrow.
Then cranked up flivver and drove to Bridge R.S. arriving at noon
Had dinner and then caught horse and rode to P.O. and got last two weeks mail.
Returned to Station and made out periodic reports and filed mail.
Quit at 7:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (counting) 6 hours
M and S (field) 2 "
Hdq (misc office periodic reports) 5 "
[on back of last page, barely readable:]
Diary for June
read in July 23-24
[signature] Jim? McLarson
Dist Forest Inspector
Work seems to have been well covered
Distribution of time O.K.
San Juan National Forest daybook, Pagosa Ranger District, 1924 July:
Tuesday, July 1, 1924
Started at 7:00 a.m. and finished periodic reports and got all mail ready to go including all counting slips and left Station at 8:00 and drove to Bennetts ranch and showed him two trees to cut for wood (trees that were marked for cutting on the Dyke Lumber Co. Sale) and repaired telephone line there. Then drove on to Turkey Spgs and had dinner and then went up to corrals and counted one bunch for Felix Gomez and one bunch for Mrs R. G. Gomez and one bunch for B.A. Rodriguez. Returned to Turkey Spgs at 5:00 p.m. and received telephone call from Hancock that Hersch’s last bunch would be at the corrals (Martinez’) in the morning at 7:00 a.m.
Hdq (periodic reports) 1 hour
S-22 Sales (Bennett) 2 "
Graz Adm (counting) 6 "
Wednesday, July 2, 1924
Left Turkey Spgs at 6:30 and drove to Martinez corrals and counted the Hersch Merc. bunch and then drove into Pagosa Springs and posted mail and all accounts for fiscal year 1924. Went around to Electric Garage and got my new signs and left Pagosa at 10:30 and drove back to Turkey Springs arriving at 11:00 a.m. Ate lunch and then caught horse and rode over and hunted up Nicolas Luna’s camp and showed him his allotment boundaries. Returned to Station at 5:30 p.m.
M and S (field) 2 hours
Graz Adm (supervision, counting) 8 "
Thursday, July 3, 1924
Received phone call last night that Seraffin Gallegos would be at Martinez corrals this morning and would be inspected there. Valdez also came here without an inspection and I told him to wait here for inspection and I would tell Robenstein where he was. I left and went to corrals but they hadn’t arrived so I went on down the road and found their camp. Robenstein hadn’t shown up so I returned to Station and Robenstein came in shortly afterwards and I caught horses and we rode to Valdez camp and inspected his sheep. I told him to go on to his range and I would count him next week as soon as I moved up to the Bridge when I showed him his range. I told him just where his lines were. Then returned to Station at 5:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (counting) 8 hours
Friday, July 4, 1924
No official duties performed
X
Saturday, July 5, 1924
Left Bennetts’ ranch at 7:00 a.m. and drove down to Martinez corrals and counted Seraffin Gallegos and then drove on into Pagosa arriving at 9:00 a.m. Saw Mack at telephone office and he asked me to solicit bids on the fencing of the Turkey Springs experimental plot. Bought grub, clothes etc and got a bath and then paid personal bills. Took in ball game in afternoon and quit for the day.
Graz Adm (counting) 2 hours
M and S (not field) 6 "
Sunday, July 6, 1924
No official duties performed
X
Monday, July 7, 1924
Left Turkey Springs at 8:00 a.m. after getting my surveying outfit, map sheets etc together and drove to H.O. Dutton ranch. Sheldon wasn’t there so I walked up fence line hunting a corner. Ran into Sheldon at A. Dutton’s and he took me to corner common to 19, 20, 29 and 30. From there I started and ran H.O Dutton fence out all around the north and west sides of his patented land. Found all these on the line with the exception of a water break on the east side of J.T. Martinez ranch. Returned to Dutton ranch at 6:00 p.m.
Sp. Uses and R of H. 9 hours
Tuesday, July 8, 1924
Left Dutton’s ranch at 7:00 a.m. and drove to Gomez corrals and counted last bunch of Gomez sheep and then returned to Dutton ranch and started again and ran out fences that concerned the H.O.D. special uses and walked pretty well over the area and found most all of it first class grazing land. Had dinner at Duttons and Sheldon put in a bid on the experimental plot (35) I then left there and drove over to where Burt and Jacobson were working on the county road and told the of the fence job and Jacobson put in a bid ($40). Burt didn’t put in a bid until he could figure on it. Told Burt I would spot his bridge timbers when ever he wanted me to. Then drove to Bennetts’ place and told him and Seibel of the job. Bennett said he didn’t have time to put on it and wouldn’t bid. Seibel bid ($40). Then drove on to Turkey Spring arriving at 4:00 p.m. Made out copies of counting slips and looked up Hatcher special use and re read the land exchange manual. Will go to Hatchers tomorrow to start on his exchange.
Sp Uses and R. of Hay 5 hours
Graz Adm (counting) 1 "
Research S and P (?) 1 "
Acquisitions and Exchange 1 "
Wednesday, July 9, 1924
Left Station at 7:00 a.m. and rode across to Hatcher ranch and ran out the 40 of Gov. land he has under cultivation special use and surveyed the agricultural land on it and estimated the timber. Then went over and had dinner at Hatcher’s and he showed me a corner to start from to locate the two 40’s of
Sullenberger land he has under option and which he wishes to trade to us. Ran out the boundaries of these 40’s and then rode through it to get the general character of the timber and soil. Find very little timber left and what is left was too small at the time of the old cutting and is now a trifle too large for ties?. Peters is cutting ties on the area now. The land itself has very little value as it is corned with surface sand rock with very little forage. Left there at 5:00 p.m. and rode back to Turkey Springs arriving at 6:00 p.m.
Acquisition and Exchange 10 hours
Thursday, July 10, 1924
As it was raining pretty hard this morning I worked on map of the Dutton uses and fences until 11:00 a.m. when I saddled up and left Turkey Spgs and rode to Whiteads inspecting Burton special use pasture en route. Wanted to see Whitead about getting a man from the 2 telephone line to help the 27 man and myself fix up telephone line. He wasn’t there. I then rode on over to Burt’s and talked to him and he said he was willing to stand his share of the expense of repairing the lines Then rode over to Bennetts and scaled up the two trees he had cut for wood and instructed him in the brush disposal. Then rode on over and inspected the Larson special use pasture. Then returned to Station arriving at 5:00 p.m.
Sp. Uses and R. of H. 6 hours
S-22 Sales 1 "
Imp M (Cim tel. line) 1 "
Friday, July 11, 1924
Burt called up and wanted some timber spotted for Archuleta County to repair bridge on county road. I left Station at 7:30 a.m. and rode to Whitead Ranch and talked to Whitead about telephone line. He said he would stand his share of the expense of maintaining the line. Burt and Jacobson came at 8:30 and I went back with them and spotted 5 green y.p. trees for the to use a stringers and instructed them in brush disposal and height of stumps. Sheldon came to look over the fencing job of Plot near Turkey Spgs and I rode over with them and they looked it over and said they would bid $35.00 since refiguring, but they would have to do the job now if they got it on account of having to hay next week. Since their bid was $5.00 lower than any other I told them that we would go down to the station and call Mack and see what he said about it. Couldn’t get Mack or French as they had returned to Durango, so I told them to go ahead. Had dinner and then caught horse and rode over to Chriss Mt. trail and cleaned it out clear to top of mountain. Returned to Turkey Springs at 5:30 p.m.
F.N. and Adm Use 3 hours
Research S. and P. (Reforestation) 1 "
Imp Maint (Chriss Mt Trail) 5 "
Saturday, July 12, 1924
Cranked up flivver and left Sta at 6:30 a.m. and drove to Pagosa Springs and loaded Sheldon out with wire. Had to unroll on [one?] spool of woven wire and cut off a chunk. Then bought staples and spikes and inquired for Montray at Court house to get assessed valuation of timber and agricultural lands but he wasn’t there. Also asked for H.O. Dutton but he had not returned from Denver. Left Pagosa Springs at 10:30 and drove to Bridge R.S. and caught mule and rode to P.O. and got last two week’s mail and returned to Station at 4:30 p.m. Read mail and quit at 5:00 p.m.
Research S and P (reforestation) 4 hours
M. and S. (field) 4 "
Sunday, July 13, 1924
No official duties performed. Took load of stuff down to Pagosa for my wife to keep house with.
X
Monday, July 14, 1924
Left Pagosa at 8:30 after going to Depot to receive pkg of tapes? for which I had received a bill of lading. Found that French had gotten the pkg. so I left the B. of L. at Depot for French to sign
Arrived at Hatchers at 9:00 a.m. and estimated the timber on the NC4 SE4 Sec. 7-35 N-7 ? after running out the boundaries. Went to Hatcher’s for dinner and told him I didn’t believe the Forest Service would agree to an exchange resulting in a loss of that 40 on account of the timber on it. He said he was not particularly desirous of acquiring it anyhow so he would only make application for the one 40 of agricultural land in exchange for the NE4 NE4 Sec ? 35-2. After dinner I drove around to east side of that 40 and ran a 2-chain strip through the center of the 40 estimating the timber. Finished that at 3:00 p.m. and then drove to Turkey Springs R.S. Sheldon was just finishing the fencing job so I inspected it and had him sign a voucher and then I packed up stuff ready to move back to Bridge R.S. tomorrow. Quit at 6:00 p.m.
Unclassified (depot after pkg) 1 hour
Acquisition and Ex (Hatcher) 7 "
Unclassified (Hdg at T.S.) 1? "
Tuesday, July 15, 1924
Packed all my stuff but saddles in flivver and cleaned the house. Then caught horses and mules and saddled them and left Turkey Springs at 10:00 a.m. leading black mare behind flivver and the other horse and mule following. Drove over to main road and turned horses loose ahead of me and drove them up the road in the flivver. Arrived Bridge Station at 1:00 p.m. and turned stock loose and got a lunch. Started at 2:00 p.m. and put back all folders I had taken to Turkey Springs in the files and filed my copies of counting slips. Then totaled up sheep I had counted this year. 48,860. Then scrubbed floor and stored equipment away that I had brought back from Turkey Springs. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Unclassified (Hdq at Turkey) 2 hours
Graz Adm (moving back to Bridge) 3 "
Hdq. (misc off) 3 "
Wednesday, July 16, 1924
Was sick all last night and all day to-day. Did a little office work when I could stand it. Rained this afternoon.
Sick leave 8 hours
Thursday, July 17, 1924
Left Station at 7:30 a.m. and rode down trail to Big Sand Creek hunting Valdez as I had heard he was going into his range that way. Rode up Big Sand nearly to the forks and couldn’t find him so I came back down to the first canyon coming in from the north and rode up it to mesa between Weminuche and Big Sand and followed it down to sheep driveway and could find no sign of him. Crossed back across Weminuche and rode up point a ways but could find no sign that way. I’ll just wait till he shows up here or hunt again in a day or two on Little Sand. Returned to Station at 3:00 p.m. and worked filing mail and wrote letter explaining travel time on Middle Mt. fire
wrote letter about fencing the experimental plot near Turkey Spgs
made out S-22 timber sale for Bennett and got all mail ready to go. Quit at 6:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (supervision) 8 hrs
Hdq (misc office) 2 "
Friday, July 18, 1924
Started at 7:00 a.m. and loaded post, shovel, bar, sign, screws, etc. and got mail and drove flivver to top of O’Neal Hill and put up new sign there. Also posted mail when mail man came by. Returned to Station at 11:00 a.m. and worked on flivver until noon.
At 1:00 I started in and made map of Dutton uses, patented land and fences and wrote letter to go with it. Also repaired fence where black mare got out and got outfit ready to got [sic] up Williams Creek tomorrow and put up signs. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Imp Const (signs) 4 hours
M and S (field) 1 "
Sp. Uses and R. of H. 3 "
M. P.O. E. (flivver) 1 "
Saturday, July 19, 1924
Started at 7:00 a.m. and caught horse and mule and packed signs, sign backs, screws, brace and bit, screw driver, hammer, shovel axe and crowbar on mule and left Station at 7:30 and rode up Williams Creek to Forks of road and unpacked.
Digged [sic] two post holes, set posts and put up signs and piled rock around posts to keep cattle from rubbing on posts. Also destroyed old sign that one of these new ones replaced. Then rode back to Bridge station arriving at 2:00 p.m. Had lunch and then rode to P.O. and got mail and returned to Station at 5:00 p.m.
Imp Const (signs) 7 hrs
M and S. (field) 2 "
Sunday, July 20, 1924
No official duties performed
X
Monday, July 21, 1924
Thayer and Harris came down at 8:00 and we started work on the telephone line
Worked from here to about half-way down O’Neal hill. This was our worst stretch of line. Work will go faster from now on. Returned to Station at 5:30 p.m.
Imp Maint (Cim tel. line) 8 hrs.
Tuesday, July 22, 1924
Left Station at 8:00 and worked on telephone line until noon when I returned to Station to meet French and McClaren. Had dinner and then pulled shoes off buckskin mule and black mare and doctored wire cut on black mare. Then filed mail and posted new pages in Adm. Hd’b’k and Graz Hd’b’k and then put up new road sign showing start of Piedra Canyon trail.
French and McC. gone at 5:00 p.m.
Imp M. (C.Tel. line) 4 hrs
M. P.O.E (shoeing) 2 "
Hdq. (misc office) 1 "
Imp const (signs) 1 "
Wednesday, July 23, 1924
French, McClaren and I spent the morning going over my office work and fire cache and condemning worn out equipment. Spent the afternoon talking fire. F. and Mc left at 4:30 and I went down and cleaned up camp ground that dudes had left today and gave sign post a coat of paint and found "Whistler", my pet groundhog shot dead at the bridge. Came back to Station and called French and he said the tourist’s name was Jacobson, and that he was an oil-well driller at Aztec, N.M. Wrote him a letter and quit for the day.
Hdq (misc office) 4 hours
Fire Pre (not field) 4 "
Imp M. (campgrounds) 1 "
Thursday, July 24, 1924
Left Station at 8:00 a.m. and worked with Harris on line until about 3:00 p.m. when it went to thundering and lightning till we had to quit. Returned to Station at 4:00 p.m. and gave sign post another coat of paint and got mail ready to go in the morning.
Imp. M (C. tel. line) 7 hrs.
Hdq. (misc office) 1 "
Friday, July 25, 1924
Left Station at 8:00 a.m. and took mail to top of hill and posted it and continued on down telephone line working by myself. Ran into Pagosa about 4:30 p.m. and got haircut, (first one in six weeks) and a bath and purchased sign posts for new signs.
Imp Maint (C. tel.line) 8 hrs.
Saturday, July 26, ’24
Let Pagosa at 7:30 a.m. and worked back on line to where I had quit yesterday and took out all crosses. All work left now will take two men
Quit at 5:00 p.m. Tired as they make them to-night [sic], but I’m learning how to climb poles.
Imp M. (Cim. tel line) 8 hrs.
Sunday, July 27, ’24
No official duties performed
X
Monday, July 28, 1924
Rained hard last night and was raining again this morning so we couldn’t work on line. At 8:00 a.m. I left and rode to Jack Keane to get him to go with me to mark his timber for haying repairs. We went and marked the timber and returned to his place for dinner. Rained hard till about 2:00 p.m. when I returned to Sta. via Thayer’s where I got mail. Arrived Station at 3:00 p.m. and read mail and bulletins. Still raining. Called Maloy about phone batteries and he said he would bring mine down to the barn to-morrow [sic]. Then repaired cow-bell (put new clapper in it) and repaired nozebag [sic]and put new canas [canvas?] water bucket in place of old one in fire cache.
S-22 Sales (Keane) 4 hours
Unc. (waiting on rain) 2 "
M and S (field) 1 "
Hdq. (misc) 1 "
Tuesday, July 29, 1924
Left Station at 7:00 a.m. and drove to Thayers and picked him up and then drove down to Winter Camp and got more wire and then worked phone line untill six p.m. Rained on us for 2 hours in p.m. but we stuck it out. Wet as could be when we got into Pagosa. Two more days ought to finish the line work.
Imp M (Cim tel line) 10 hours
Wednesday, July 30, 1924
Left Pagosa at 8:00 a.m. and drove out on line and worked until 5:00 p.m. when I continued on to Station arriving at 6:00 p.m.
Imp M (Cim. tel line) 9 hours
Thursday, July 31, 1924
Left Station at 7:30 a.m. and drove to top of O’Neal Hill where I picked up Thayer and we drove on down to O’Neal Park school and picked up Whitead and then drove on down to where we left off on the line yesterday. Worked on telephone line until 4:00 p.m. when we finished up the job. Drove on to Station arriving at 4:30 p.m. I unloaded and stored all telephone equipment in shop and came in and tested line. Found it in fine shape again.
Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Imp M. (C. tel line) 9 hours.
San Juan National Forest daybook, Pagosa Ranger District, August 1 - September 30, 1924:
Friday, August 1, 1924
Started out at 8:00 and wrote out Form 26, Form 4, monthly schedule and got all mail ready to go. Then shod bay horse all around and black mule in front.
Hdq (periodic rep) 4 hrs
M.P.O.E. 4 "
Saturday, August 2,
Left Station at 8:00 and rode up Middle Fork above Norris place then took ridge up to trail heading to upper Maloy ranch from there I went up through Carter Park, across the head of Willow Draw and over to Webbs salt ground. Found salt O.K. Then rode down through upper Thayer place to get idea of timber on it as he wants to exchange it for 160 lower down. Came on back by P.O. and got mail and returned to Station at 6:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (inspection) 6
Acq and Ex (Thayer) 2
M and S. (field) 1
Sunday, Aug 3, 1924
No official duties performed.
Monday, Aug 4, ’24
Started at 8:00 a.m. and finished shoeing black mule and then shod black mare all around. Then got my camp outfit all together for trip to sheep ranges. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
M.P.O.E. 5 hrs
Graz Adm (insp) 3 "
Tuesday, Aug 5.
Left Bridge Station at 7:00 a.m. and drove to Pagosa arriving at 8:30 a.m. Went over to planer? [or ploner?] and got sign posts and brought them home and sawed the tops pointed and then went all over town hunting creosote but there was none in town
Returned to house and painted 6 posts one coat of paint
Then had dinner and at 1:00 I went up town and cashed check, paid bills, bought grub and went to Court house and talked with Montray about assessed value of agri. and timber lands. He said land such as I was dealing with in Hatcher exchange was assessed 3.00 for timber (cut over) land and 45.00 for agri. He said Newton got 3.00 per acre for the land he sold Gomez. Then hunted up Ben Martinez to see if he wanted to hold the 9-2-15 special use. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Imp C. (signs) 4 hrs
M and S 2
Acq and Ex 1
Wednesday, Aug 6
Left Pagosa at 8:15 and drove to Bridge Sta arriving at 9:45. Packed mules and left there at 10:30. Rode across West Div to head of Martinez Creek and then over onto Four Mile Creek. Camped above Cade Ranch.
Graz Adm (insp) 8 hrs.
Thursday, Aug 7, 1924
Packed up and left camp at 8:00 a.m. and rode up Four Mile into head of Dead Man’s canyon. Rode down through the canyon to Piedra River. I crossed River here and followed old trail into head of one prong of Middle Fork (Monument Div). Camped here for the night. Looks as though it would be far too expensive to build a trail up Rio Piedra.
Graz Adm (insp) 8 hrs.
Friday, Aug 8, 1924
Packed up and left camp at 8:00 a.m. and rode up this fork of Middle Fork to Continental Divide and back onto head of Piedra in Red Mt. Div. Then came back on Divide into head of Porphyry Canyon and down it a ways and across ridge into head of Middle Fork. Camped just below F. Lopez camp for the night.
Graz. Adm (insp) 8 hrs
Saturday, Aug. 9, 1924
Packed up and left camp at 8:00 a.m. and rode up west prong of Middle Fork to the Little Round Mt. and into head of Vegas at head of Long Canyon. Then back around on the other side of the Round Mountain to Continental Divide and followed it around to head of Williams Creek. Dropped down in Williams Creek and camped just below B.A. Rodriquez camp.
Grazing Adm (insp) 8 hrs.
Sunday, Aug 10, 1924
Started at 8:00 a.m. and shod buckskin mule all around and then packed up and rode up to edge of timber line where I cut dry spruce post and shaped it up and packed it on mule. Then continued on to Divide where Williams Creek trail connects with the C. Divide Trail. Set up post here, put large mound of rock around it and put up new sign on post giving directions to Bridge Sta. and Pagosa. Finished this at 12:00 noon. Then continued on over into head of Big Squaw Creek where I camped. No official duties performed after noon.
M.P.O.E (field shoeing) 1 hr.
Imp C. (signs) 3 "
Monday, Aug 11, 1924
Packed up and left camp at 8:00 a.m. and rode over into head of Weminuche and down through this Division to Granite Lake. Dropped off into Pine River and rode down trail to Granite Peak R.S. where I camped. Rained nearly all day.
Graz Adm (insp) 8 hrs.
Tuesday, Aug 12, 1924
On account of rain I did not leave Granite Peak R.S. until 10 a.m. when I rode over to Standard sign board on divide at Divide Lake and found that someone had already posted it. Probably Hauser (Thanks, Harry.)
Continued on down Pine-Piedra driveway to Standard sign board in Hossick Park and posted it. Then across into head of Poison Park and posted that one. Came on down through Poison Park to Cimarrona R.S. where I camped.
Graz. Adm (insp) 6 hrs
F. Pre (signs) 2 "
Wednesday Aug 13, 1924
Left Cimarrona R.S. at 7:00 a.m. and rode up Williams Creek trail finishing cleaning out timber and posting sign shield. Returned to Cimarrona at 4:30 and got dinner and then went fishing to celebrate my birthday. Caught 29 nice ones.
Imp Maint (Williams trail) 6 hrs
Fire Pre (signs) 3 "
Thursday, Aug. 14, 1924
Started at 8:00 a.m. and mixed up cement daubing and daubed Cimarrona house where daubing had fallen out. Then swept up old morter [sic] and cleaned house. Then packed up and left there at 11:00 a.m. Rode to Bridge R.S. arriving at 2:00 p.m. Unpacked and stored grub and equipment away and then got lunch. Rained hard this afternoon. Took bath, shaved and left for Pagosa in flivver at 5:00 p.m. Arrived Pagosa at 7:00 p.m. Roads pretty slick.
Imp Maint (Cim R.S.) 2 hrs
Unclassified (Hdq at Cim) 1 "
Graz Adm (insp) 3 "
Hdq (misc) 1 "
Imp Const (signs) 2 "
Friday, Aug 15, 1924
Went over to Hauser’s at 8:00 a.m. and bought a clear board for sign backs and brought it back to house and cut out sign backs and painted them one coat of green. Then painted sign posts another coat of white. Then went all over town hunting cross screws for signs. But could find none. Also hunted up Keanes to see where they were going to make the junction of the O’Neal Park road and the State highway so that I could put up the sign there. He said they were undecided yet, but would have it finished soon. Bought grub and clothes and painted sign backs another coat of green paint. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Imp Const (signs) 6 hrs
M. and S. (not field) 2 "
Saturday, Aug. 16, 1924
Left Pagosa at 7:00 a.m. and drove to Bridge R.S. arriving at 8:30. Then read and filed last two weeks mail, cleaned out spring box, cleaned out shop, scrubbed house and gave house a cleaning. Valdez came along about 4:00 p.m. and borrowed a horse to ride over on to the Weminuche. Talked with him a while and then brought my job list up to date and put new pages in Adm, Lands, and F.M. Handbooks. Quit at 6:00 p.m.
Hdq. (misc office) 3 hrs
" (Sta maint) 5 "
Sunday, Aug 17, 1924
No official duties performed.
Monday, Aug 18, 1924
Started at 8:00 and made new folders for several new cases and filed them and then caught horse and rode down trail to sheep bridge to put new sign on shield there as I had been told that someone had torn the sign off. Found it O.K. so returned to Station
Cleaned rock out of Piedra trail that rain had washed in en route. Also Patterson came by when I came home with his school teachers and I ate lunch with them down by the creek. Then loaded sign, sign post and shovel in flivver and drove up to fork of road and set up the middle fork sign. Also pulled a big car out of the mud with Lizzie. Returned to Station at 5:00 p.m. and was starting to get supper when a Mr. Reed and Mr. Ruddy came in and we talked for about an hour.
Hdq (misc office) 1 hour
Fire Pre (signs) 2 "
Imp Maint (Piedra Trail) 2 "
Imp Const (signs) 3 "
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1924
Left Station at 8:00 a.m. and rode up to ¼ corner between Sec. 9 and 16 and from there I ran out the Akers and Ludwig telephone line finishing it at noon. Then returned via of all campgrounds on Williams Creek. Found them all pretty clean. Arrived at Bridge Sta at 2:00 p.m. and found Mack here. We got dinner and talked over the Hatcher and Thayer land exchanges, possible fire cooperation property etc.
Sp Uses and R of H. 6 hrs
L. Exchange 2 "
Wednesday, August 20, 1924
Mack and I left station at 8:00 and rode up through land Norris want as 6-11 and from there up into Thayer’s lower place where we looked over the 80 that Thayer wants. Then rode up and talked to Thayer and Mack explained that we would require abstract. Thayer said he could produce it if the exchange were approved. We then rode on up through the Webb place and tied our horses in the upper end of the Webb special use at the ¼ corner between Sec 12 and 13. From this corner we ran north 20 chains to Thayer’s land and then laid off strips and estimated timber on it. Finished this at 2:30 p.m. and then rode down to the Gov. land Thayer selected and made a 100% estimate of the timber on this land. Returned to Station at 4:30 and got dinner and supper combined. Then after supper we worked an hour totaling our estimate sheets.
L. Ex. (Thayer) 9 hours
Thursday, Aug. 21, 1924
Mack left Sta. at 8:00 for Pagosa and I left and rode up to Gov. land and traversed the agricultural land on the 160. Returned to Station at 11:00 and plotted this on map sheet for Mack’s information. Then ate lunch and went to work on the general land exchange sheets due 9-5. Quit at 5:00 p.m. Will have to do some field work before I can finish 35-2 and 2 ½.
L. Ex. (Thayer) 4 hrs
(Gen) 4 "
Friday, Aug 22, 1924
Started at 8:00 and worked on Gen. land exchange maps until 3:00 p.m. when I made out quarterly requisition and got mail ready to go.
Got compass and map sheets and left at 4:00 p.m. for Pagosa Spgs
Arrived Pagosa at 6:00 p.m.
Land Ex. (Gen) 8 hours
Hdq. (misc office) 1 "
Saturday, Aug 23, 1924
Left Pagosa Springs at 8:00 a.m. and drove to ¼ corner between Sec’s 7 and 8, tp 35 N 2 W and from there I ran south ½ mile, thence west ½ mile, thence south ¼ mile, thence west 1 ½ miles, thence south ¼ mile, thence east 1 ¾ miles to Sullenbergers home ranch. Was about dead for a drink, so I got acquainted with Mrs. Sullenberger, quenched my thirst at the pump and then walked north to where I had left car. Mapped land desired and land available for exchange while surveying. Drove into Pagosa arriving at 3 p.m.
Ate lunch and then went up and got Pim? and a phone and set up phone in house in town on 45 line. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Land Ex. (Gen). 7 hrs.
Unclassified (phone) 1 "
Sunday, Aug 24, 1924
No official duties performed. Met Fay and Hunter up town. They are going to work up data on west tier of sections in O’Neal Park. Told them how to find corners and how to get to Gomez ranch.
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Monday, August 25, 1924
Left Pagosa at 5:30 a.m. and drove to Bridge Sta arriving at 7:30 Caught horse and rode to P.O. and got mail and then rode on over to Norris? place and got Norris and we rode over and established boundaries of land he wanted as homestead. Then in order to get rid of Norris, who was in the way when it came to helping, I returned to Station and worked up the township plats for 35-2 and 2 ½ and started writing the discussion on the Hatcher land exchange on scratch paper and read mail. Quit at 6:00 p.m.
L. Adj (claims) 3 hours
M and S. (field) 1 "
Land Ex (Hat. and Gen) 4 "
Hdq (misc office) 1 "
Tuesday, August 26, ’24
Started at 8:00 and worked all day on Hatcher land exchange report and maps. At 5:00 p.m. I was so nervous I got sign post, sign, shovel, etc. and drove over to bridge and put up Piedra River sign and built mound of rocks around post.
Land Ex. (Hatcher) 8 hrs.
Imp Const (signs) 1 "
Wednesday, Aug 27, 1924
Started at 8:00 a.m. and finally cleaned up Hatcher land exchange report and then filed all material I had out and last week’s mail and straightened up office in general. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Land Ex. (Hatcher) 4 hours
Hdq (misc office) 4 "
Thursday, Aug 28, 1924
Started at 8:00 a.m. and wrote letter to Ricketts on yellow paper and then typed it. Then wrote letter to County Clerk of Hinsdale County asking names and addresses of owners of the land on Middle Fork. Then tried to get Dautzigers address, but no one in Pagosa knew it yet, as they had not heard from him since he moved to California. Then brought my D-21 up to date, put new pages in Fire Manual and trail manual, made trip schedule for tomorrow and Saturday and got all mail ready to go. Then got sign, sign back, screws, screwdriver and tools for putting up sign showing direction and distance to Granite Peak R.S. Also pulled shoes off black mule. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Fire Pre 3 hrs
Hdq (misc office) 3 "
Imp Const (signs) 1 "
M. P.O.E. 1 "
Friday, August 29, 1924
Saddled up and left Sta at 7:00 a.m. and rode up to Weminuche and on up trail to top of Timber Hill where I found a bunch of Salvodar Rodriquez sheep. The camp looked as it they had been there 2 or 3 days. I hunted around and found a Navajo in charge and I could not make him understand English nor Spanish. But I made it plain that it was his move and to do to pronto. I then rode on up to where driveway goes up the hill where I posted the Granite Peak R.S. sign. Rained nearly all afternoon. Then returned down the trail and found that the sheep had not moved. The Navajo finally opened his mouth enough to say that he was alone and his partner would be back to-night [sic] and he would move in the morning. Rode on down to Patterson homestead and stayed all night with him
Imp C (signs) 4 hrs.
Graz Adm (super) 5 "
Saturday Aug 30, 1924
Left Patterson’s at 7:00 a.m. and rode up into Bear Park and on across into Bald Mt. division inspecting them Hit the Weminuche again opposite Hossick Creek. While coming down an old sheep trail from Bald Mt. I noticed where someone had been marking trees along the trail with a "US" marking hatchet. The marks looked fresh, and too numerous for any F. Officer’s work. I hunted up the Mercure sheep camp and started quizzing Tomas Mercure as to who had done the marking. He said his herder had done it the other day. I asked him where he got his marking hatchet. He said his brother, Juan Mercure had found it near Lumberton N.M. 2 years ago when they were logging down there. He produced the hatchet and I took it, and told him to tell his brother I had taken it. I then rode over to see if the Rodriquez sheep had moved and found that they had come on down to Hossick Creek. I told him to keep moving every day and that I would be back in the morning to see that he did move. Left there at 4:00 p.m. and rode to Bridge R.S., arriving at 6:30 p.m.
Graz Adm (insp, super) 10 hrs.
Sunday, Aug 31, 1924
No official duties performed. Helped in hay-field as they were short-handed.
X
Monday, Sept 1, 1924
No official duties performed. Helped in hay-field as they are short-handed.
X
Tuesday Sept. 2, 1924
Started at 8:00 and made out Form 26, Form 4, brought job list up to date, put new pages in Adm handbook, made out monthly schedule and read minutes of Committee meetings and initialed them. Left Station at 1:00 p.m. and rode to P.O. and got mail and returned to Sta and read it. Noted McClaren memo concerning talk to Justice of Peace. Read Bulletin and left Station at 3:00 and rode over on to driveway the other side of Williams Creek to see if Rodriguez sheep had passed there yet. Found fresh tracks there so I know they had. Returned to Station at 6:00 p.m.
Hdq (p. reports, misc office) 4 hrs
M and S 2 "
Graz 3 hrs
Wednesday, Sept 3, 1924
Saddled up and left Station at 8:00 a.m. and rode down canyon to sheep bridge to push Rodriguez sheep and found that they had not gotten that far yet. I supposed they had dropped down on the Weminuche so I rode to mouth of it and then rode up the old trail to Valdez sheep camp but could find not trace of them. I then rode back up on the driveway and followed it down till I found their sheep and then hunted up herder and gave him another jacking up and told him to move in the morning and that I would be at the bridge to see that he got there. Returned to Sta at 6:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (insp, super) 9 hrs.
Thursday, Sept 4, 1924
Left Station at 8:00 a.m. and rode down Piedra to O’Neal Creek and up it to Big Pasture and on around to gate on back side where I took driveway around to where Devil Mt. trail leaves and put up sign there and put new sign on standard board there. Then posted driveway back to Devil Creek and rode on down driveway to see where Rodriguez had gotten to. Found one bunch across Piedra and the other bunch right behind the first bunch. Then rode on up trail to Station after instructing Rodriguez herders to make it to the Boundary by day after to-morrow [sic]. Arrived Sta at 5:00 p.m.
Imp C. (signs) 3 hrs
Graz Adm (super) 5 "
Friday, Sept. 5, 1924
Started at 8:00 and got Status in Tp 35-3 and dope on location of corners in that tp [township?]. Then got signs, screws nails, screw-driver, sheep trespass signs, and stock driveway signs and saddle and loaded up flivver and left for Pagosa at 11:00 a.m. Arrived Pagosa at 12:30 and had dinner. Then got voucher sworn to posted mail, bought clothes, paid personal bills and bought grub. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Imp C (signs) 4 hrs
M and S (field) 2 "
(not field) 2 "
Saturday, Sept. 6, 1924
Loaded up flivver at 7:00 a.m. and left Pagosa and drove to Turkey Spgs R.S. and put up sign on road near there showing direction and distance to Turkey. Then drove on down to where road drops over to Butchers and pushed sheep over the hill. Then came back to experimental Pg-3 and put 2 Property signs on it. By the time I had finished this I was feeling pretty bum. I drove on to Bennett’s place and got some medicine and laid down until 1:00 p.m. when I got in flivver and drove to Pagosa Springs and straight to Dr. Mary’s. She gave me some more medicine and I went home and went to bed with chills and fever.
Imp C. (signs) 3 hrs
Graz Adm (super) 1 "
Sick leave 4 "
Sunday Sept 7, 1924
Was sick in bed all day. No official duties performed.
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Monday Sept 8, 1924
Left Pagosa at 8:00 a.m. and drove up to top of hill where O’Neal Park road leaves State highway and put up sign there showing direction to O’Neal Park and Upper Piedra. Then drove from there to Dyke water tank and put up new sign there showing direction to counting pens. Then drove to Jack Sullivan’s ranch to arrange for cooperation in the water development on Chriss Mt. Sullivan, Dyke and I talked it over and decided that on account of the springs being so dry this fall, we would wait untill spring before doing anything. I had dinner there (.50) and then drove to Otto Snow’s ranch and he and I surveyed his fence along the boundary and found that he had about 1 acre of Forest land enclosed and about the same on the outside of his own land. Decided to make an L-37 out of it. Then looked over his reservoir site and took notes on it.
Then posted the sheep driveway around the corner of his place and on up the ridge. Left there at 4:00 p.m. and drove over on to Devil Creek to where McAlpines are setting up the mill where I met Loring. We both went from there on up to Snow’s ranch arriving at 5:00 p.m.
Imp C (signs) 3 hrs
Graz Adm (R Imp) 1 "
Sp Uses and R of H 3 "
Land Adj. 1 "
Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1924
Loring and I left Snow’s ranch at 8:00 a.m. and walked down to the ¼ corner between Sec’s 31 and 32 in tp 35-3 and ran from there to the section corner ½ mile south. This checked in the ¼ corner O.K. so we returned to the ¼ corner and ran each from it and determined that McAlpine was setting on patented and we then walked down to the boundary and tried to locate 2 corners to triangulate from but were unsuccessful. We returned to Snow’s place at noon and had dinner and got subvouchers signed. Left Snows at 1:30 p.m. and drove to Dyke and got gas and then drove to Pagosa Springs arriving at 4:00 p.m. Hunted up Newton then and showed him where McAlpine was setting up and he acknowleged [sic] that they were setting on his land. Then went to Court house and voted and then called Toner’s about fish fry distribution. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Lands Adj 7 hours
Fish and Game 1 "
Wednesday, Sept 10, 1924
Got ready to leave Pagosa at 8:00 a.m. and it started raining so I drove the flivver under the shed and worked on it all morning. Rained all day. I went up to Hersch Merc. Co. at 1:00 p.m. to see Hersch about fire cooperation on the Babcock place. He was not in but was expected any time. I waited for him until 3:00 p.m. but he did not get back. So I came back to house and wrote trip schedule for tomorrow and made map of land I wanted to post against sheep grazing. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
M.P.O.E. (flivver) 4 hours
Fire Pre (coop.) 2 "
Graz Adm (posting) 2 "
Thursday, Sept 11, 1924
Left Pagosa at 7:00 a.m. and drove out to Sec 8 Tp 35-2 and ran from the ¼ corner between Sec’s. 8 and 7 and posted the 3 Gov. forties against sheep grazing. Then drove to Winter camp and posted the stock driveway from Seibel’s land clear over to the J.T. Martinez land. Also walked through the timber on the ridge and in the draw above the back pasture. Noted most of this timber had been marked. Remembered helping Irwin mark part of it. Returned to Pagosa at 5:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (posting) 6 hrs
Timber Sales (Johnson) 3 "
Friday Sept 12, 1924
Left Pagosa at 7:00 a.m. and drove out to Seibel’s place and left flivver and then walked to the – corner common to Sec’s. 25, 26, 35, and 36 in tp 36-2 ½ and ran two miles south on the section line, locating Patent, Gov. and State Timber in connection with the Johnson timber sale. Also walked around the logical sale boundaries on the west. Then from this point I ran one mile each and then 1 mile north locating the Gov. 40’s and the Martinez place. Found all corners in place even to 1/16 corners in some places. Ended up at the Martinez place and walked back to flivver and drove to Pagosa arriving at 2:00 p.m. Got lunch and then went up to see Hersch. Talked over fire cooperative agreement with him and he agreed to sign on agreement. Then hunted up Dickerson and asked for ice for the trout fry arriving tonight. He donated 200 pounds. Then hunted up Keane’s and got him in readiness for meeting the train. Also called Bengo Lox? and Burt Smith to see that they hadn’t forgotten about the fry. Then loaded ice in flivver and drove to Depot and met train and unleaded fry and loaded them in the different trucks and then followed the truck that took the Upper Piedra fish. We arrived at the Upper Piedra bridge at 7:00 p.m. and I helped him unload the fry and started him back. I kept the water fresh in the fish cans untill Toner and Ludwig came about 7:30 and helped them load up their fish. Then came on to Bridge Sta arriving at 7:45 p.m.
Timber Sales (Johnson) 7 hrs
Fire Pre (coop) 1 "
Fish and Game 4 "
Saturday Sept 13, 1924
Started at 8:00 and filed last weeks mail, wrote letter to Super. about Hersch fire cooperation, one about planting of trout fry and then typed report on Norris June 11 application and finished map. Left Station at 1:00 p.m. and rode to P.O. and got mail and on to Webbs and got some beans I had bought there last spring. Returned to Station at 3:00 p.m. and read over this and last weeks mail, put new pages in the library list and filed all mail. Then caught horses and mules and pulled all their shoes with the exception of the black mare’s.
Lands Adm (Norris 6-11) 3 hrs
Hdq (misc office) 1 "
M. and S. (field) 2 "
M.P.O.E. (shoeing) 2 "
Sunday, Sept 14, 1924
No official duties performed
X
Monday, Sept 15, 1924
Left Station at 7:00 a.m. and rode over a good part of the Piedra C and H division. Found nearly all small streams and springs dried up. Cattle are well distributed and in fine shape. Came back via the rincon? in Drift Fence Div. to see that sheep were not trespassing there. Noticed that Ludwig had his telephone line finished. Returned to Station at 5:30 p.m.
Graz Adm (inspection) 9 hours
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 1924
Was raining when I got up and rained nearly all day. I started at 8:00 and made out reports and maps in Otto Snow’s L-37 and reservoir case. Then wrote letter about finding marking hatchet in Mercure’s camp, and one about exchange or repair of lodge. Then called Mrs. Alva Patterson to see if they had heard from Dautziger so that I could get his address. Mrs. Patterson wasn’t in and I left word for her to call when she came in but she didn’t do it. Keane told me to-day that Flaugh and Parker saw nine head of yearlings in head of Piedra branded Y or with a wagon wrench. Will write to Jan? Aken about it.
Cleaned up office work and quit at 5:00 p.m.
Sp Uses ad R of H (office) 4 hrs
Hdq. (misc office) 4 "
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1924
Left Station at 7:00 a.m. and rode all over the West Div and the south end of Piedra Div. Found lots of feed high but very little water. Came down Pagosa Creek behind McManus place and found his fence down and sign that showed he had been driving the cattle out of there. Rode on down to his place to ask him to let the cattle alone or fix his fence
Found he had gone to Bayfield to the Fair. Continued on to Sta arriving at 5:00 p.m.
Graz. Adm (Insp) 9 hours
Thursday, Sept 18, 1924
Left Station at 7:30 a.m. and rode over on to stock driveway and up it to Poison Park where I dropped back into Drift Fence Div and inspected part I didn’t get over the other day. Cattle well distributed in spike of lack of water. Returned to Station at 6:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (insp) 9 hours
Friday, Sept. 19, 1924
Left Station at 8:00 a.m. and rode down canyon to sheep bridge and on up driveway to Poison Park. Met B.A. Rodriguez, Abeyta, and Cordova’s bunches. All moving and staying on driveway. Returned to Station at 6:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (super) 9 hrs.
Saturday, Sept. 20, ’24
Left Station at 8:00 a.m. and rode all over Piedra division between the Creeks. Found lots of salt and cattle mostly high although water is getting scarce on the higher parts of the range. Returned via post office and got mail. Returned to Station at 5:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (insp) 7 hrs
M and S. (field) 1 "
Sunday, Sept 21, 1924
I brought my wife down to Pagosa last night. To-day at 4:00 p.m. I drove out to San Juan Station to borrow Maloy’s Abney level. While there Turner of the At Last Ranch came by and notified Maloy of a 70 acre fire on Wolf Creek. Maloy asked me to go with him, so we loaded tools in his car and left there about 5:45. Drove to McCay’s ranch to see if he knew anything of the fire, as we could see no smoke. McCay said the fire started yesterday morning from a spark from the steam shovel and the steam shovel crew fought it all day with steam from the engine and had it completely out at 4:00 p.m. yesterday. McCay said the fire probably covered an acre of ground or less. Maloy decided there was no use going farther, so we returned to San Juan Station about 8:00 p.m. I stayed there all night
Fire Supp (false alarm) 2 hrs
Monday, Sept 22, 1924
Left Maloy’s at 8:00 and drove to Pagosa and changed clothes and left for Bridge Sta. arriving at 10:00 a.m. Caught horse and rode down canyon and took driveway and rode back up it to just below Poison Park and then turned back and rode to Bridge Sta arriving at 6:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (super) 7 hrs
Imp Const (looking out route for trail) 2 "
Tuesday, Sept 23, 1924
Left Station at 7:00 a.m. and rode to Stevens ranch and got Stevens and we rode over to McManus place where I saw McManus and asked him to either fix his fence or stop driving range cattle out of Big Pagosa Country. He said he would fix his fence. Stevens and I rode on up to about ½ mile below the Piedra Falls where we tied our hoses and took abney level and crawled up over the Palisades above the falls and looked out the best route for a possible trail up this Canyon. Walked clear to the mouth of Dead Man’s Canyon and then ran back on grade to the lowest possible place to get over the palisades.
Where we did considerable looking around to find a way off. Found a place where we would have to use a little 30% grade and very little shoeting? Returned to our horses at 5:00 p.m. all worn out. Rode from there to Bridge R.S. arriving at 6:00 p.m.
Imp C. (trail location) 10 hrs
Wed. Sept. 24, 1924
Vic Johnson called at 7:00 and wanted me to show him the lines between patent, Gov. and state on the area of his sale. Told him I would meet him at Hatcher lake at 10:00 a.m. Stevens was going to town, so I rode down with him and met Johnson and we drove down to the ¼ corner between Secs 1 and 6-35 NR2 and 2 ½ where I showed him the Gov., Ray Martinez land and Newton. We then drove down to Hatcher place and I showed him the north line of the Gov 40 there. He decided it would do no good to try to get out through Hatcher place so we drove back to the Martinez place and look? out a route for a road up Martinez Creek and a mill set on the ranch. Then drove on back around to where the Sunetha road turns off and then drove down it to Hatcher ranch and on over to main road and on into Pagosa. Arrived Pagosa at 1:00 p.m. Got dinner and then did some trading and at 3:00 p.m. I left Pagosa with Stevens and rode with him to his Ranch and then walked down to Station arriving at 5:00 p.m.
Timber sales (Johnson) 7 hrs
M. and S. (not field) 1 "
Thurs., Sept 25, 1924
Left Station at 8:00 a.m. and rode over on to driveway opposite here and rode down it to the Piedra and then rode down the driveway from Weminuche to Big Sand Creek seeing that sheep were moving and staying on the trail. Returned to Station at 5:00 p.m.
Graz Administration 8 hours
Friday, Sept. 26, 1924
Started at 8:00 and got all mail together that I wanted to post and then threw a pack outfit together and saddled up and left Sta. at 9:00 a.m. Rode down canyon to driveway and then rode driveway up over Devil Mt. and on to Turkey Spgs pushing bands of sheep and seeing that they were staying on the trail
Found that Onecito Gallegos had taken a circle, so I hunted him up and gave him a jacking up and pushed him back on the driveway. Arrived at T.S. at 3:00 p.m. and ate lunch and then dragged in wood and cut it up for future use. Quit at 5:00 p.m.
Graz. Adm. (super) 8 hours
Saturday, Sept 27, 1924
Saddled up and left Turkey Spgs at 8:00 a.m. and rode over nearly all of the Chriss Mt. Division. Very little water on the mountain and few cattle on my part of the division on account of lack of water. Landed up in Pagosa at 6:00 p.m. and immediately posted mail and got my letter mail.
Graz Adm (insp) 8 hrs
Sunday, Sept. 28, 1924
No official duties performed
X
Monday, Sept. 29, 1924
Left Pagosa at 8:00 a.m. and rode out to Park Div and inspected it from one end to the other and landed at Turkey Spgs at 1:00 p.m. Had dinner and then took ax and went to timber and cut and peeled material for new gate. Returned to Station at 5:00 p.m.
Graz Adm (insp) 5 hrs
Imp C (T.S. gate) 3 "
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1924
Packed up and left Turkey Springs and rode up driveway to Devil Mt. and then rode over the greater part of this division landing at the mouth of Big Sand Creek. Rode up trail from there to Sta. arriving at 5:30 p.m.
Graz Adm (insp) 9 hours
[on back of last page:]
November 24
This diary has been
reviewed and approved by me
H.O. French
Supervisor
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San Juan National Forest daybooks, Pagosa Ranger District, diary of Glenn Dalton, December 1924 :
FOREST SERVICE
SAN JUAN NATIONAL FOREST
DURANGO, COLORADO
FEB 4 – 1924
RECEIVED
Answered _____________________
Dec 1, 1924
Began work at 8 From 8 till 3 making 26 & forms 4 and 79. From 3 till 6 adding up scale book making 820, report of timber cut on Johnson sale and 861-D calling for $500 on his sale – also started requisition –
Head – 6 hrs
Timber sales – 3 hrs (in office)
December 2, 1924
Began work at 8 – Wrote O.E.& S. letter to Superviser[sic], made requisition and La Cost Keeping letter about our letter F-A – that is ? Left Station at 10:00 Drove to Pagosa – Mailed letters after getting expense account sworn to – Got a [sic] quite a lot of supplies but could not haul all I wanted – Returned to station at 1:00 p.m. Got Dinner – From 2 till 4:00 hauling water, watering horses and feeding. It is almost 2 miles round trip to the nearest drinking water & about 2/5 mile round trip to other water. From 4 till 5 splitting up a bunch of block of wood and putting in wood shed since it looks like a snow storm due.
Head – 2 hrs
Mail & 3 hrs
Unclass 1 hr
Maint – P.O.E. 1 hr
miles – 18.5
December 3, 1924
Left station at 9:00 Retired at 5:00 Scaled timber and marked a few trees on the Johnson Lumber Co Sale – Worked from 8 till nine trying to do some thing for one of my horses that is lame from a kick.
Maint – P.O.E. 1 hr
Sales 7 hrs
Dinner 35
Horse feed 25 cents
Dec – 4, 1924
Began work at 8:15 watered horses, saddled up and had quite a time getting the lame horse to water. Left station at 8:50 Rode to sale area marked timber till evening Returned to station at 4:15 – Worked from 5:30 till 6:30 adding up scale book and figuring on how much the men will cut per day.
Head 1 hr
Timber sales – 7 hrs, 6 in f.
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
1 horse, 1 feed – 25 cents
Dec – 5, 1924
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 11:20 – went to Pagosa to get grub and some medicine for my horse. I will have quite a supply on hand for the winter months now. Maloy came just about noon or a little before – His car was broken down at Dutton Cr – We called the garage to have a truck come out for it and about 1:00 I took him down – Returned at 2:00 p.m. From 2 till 5:30 – hauling water, feeding and watering horses etc.
Mail & 4 hrs
Unclass 4 hrs
Dec – 6, 1924
It snowed most of yesterday and all day today. I split wood to store away for spring use or when I can’t be here to cut it from 8 till 5 –
Head – 8 hrs
Dec 7, 1924
Sunday
Worked from 10:00 till 5, stopt an hr. at noon. fixing up filing scheme and their forms and instruction ? , manuals, handbooks etc – also rearranged office equip so as to get better light to work by –
Head – 6 hrs
Dec – 8, 1924
Left station at 8:15 – Returned at 5:00
Rode to sale area and scaled logs till 2:00 – Marked till 4:10 and came home
Timber sales 8 hrs
Horse one feed 25 cents
Dinner 35 cents
Dec – 9, 1924
Left station at 8:30 Returned at 5:10
Rode up to Stevens and left mule to be watered there, on to station and got ? snow shoes – They are damaged beyond ordinary repair. Helped Re Scott ? move a couple of cows he was driving down road – Got pretty well acquainted with him
Maint – P.O.E. 6 hrs
Gen 2 hrs
Dec – 10, 1924
Began work at 8:00, Quit at 5:00 –
From 8:00 till 12:00 and 1:00 till 4:00 reading and filing mail – Beals had not filed some of the mail bearing Oct – Dates and very little of the Nov – mail before I came here – There was also the later mail. Read over the instructions for scaling timber & the marking policy – This took about an hour – Made requisition for snow shoes and wrote letter about same – Split wood from 4 till 5:00
Head 7 hrs
Sales 1 hr
December 11, 1924
Left station at 8:15 and returned at 5:00
Rode to sale area and marked timber all day except for an hour spent hunting the N.W. corner of Sec 1 of Tp 35 N R 2 ½ W Found it. Also an hour on supervision and looking over marking ahead of choppers?
Horse feed at mill 25 cents
Timber sales 8 hrs
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Dec – 12, 1924
Left station at 9:00 Returned at 5:00 –
From 8 till 9:00 writing sales letter to Supervisor and getting mail ready – saddling horse. Marked timber till noon and scaled in the afternoon. Killed a porcupine yesterday and brought him home today – Reckon on starting the Census work tomorrow real warm and looks like more snow –
Head 1 hr
Timber Sales 7 hrs
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Horse one feed – 25 cents
Dec – 13, 1924
From 8 till 8:30 getting ready to start on Census work – Left at 8:30 – Returned at 5:00
Only got 4 schedules but this included 7 tracts of land – Could easily gotten 3 more if people had of been home.
Census – 8 hrs
December 14, 1924
Sunday – No official work. Rode pack horse, she sure did pitch.
Dec – 15, 1924
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 12:00
Rode to Whitead ranch and took census of his farm and then to Burts Place and got his – Returned to station Left at 1:00 Returned at 5:00
Rode to Johnson sale and scaled logs –
Census – 4 hrs
Sales – 4 hrs
Dec – 16, 1924
Left at 8:00 Returned at 10:00 Attempted to go to Pagosa with car but decided I could not make it and returned ? snowing – Spent rest of day Posting adm Hand books, splitting wood and doing chores –
Mail & 2 hrs
Head – 6 hrs
Dec – 17, 1924
Annual Leave, still sto ? and I don’t feel like working –
Dec – 18, 1924
The entire day spent riding to Pagosa and bringing out pack load of grub – Sure some day, snow, wind and cold –
Mail & - 8 hrs
Dec – 19, 1924
Spent forenoon in office – added up scale book, estimated timber cut and made out letter of transmittal – Rode to mail in afternoon – Took letter of transmittal and gave to book keeper – got flour and potatoes.Watched them saw awhile since there was no logs skidded to scale –
Sales in office – 4 hrs
Sales – 2 hrs – f-
Mail & 2 hrs
Dec – 20, 1924
Left station at 8:30 – Rode to Johnson ranch taking census, got Johnson Hott, Bonnell, Martin and stopped at Keanes for night –
Census – 8 hrs
Dec – 21, 1924
Census work from 8 till 6:00 Got several ranches and returned to station
Census – 9 hrs –
Dec – 22, 1924
From 8 till 5:30 – working on allotment estimates –
Head – 8 hrs
Dec – 23, 1924
From 8 till 12 on allotment estimates From 1:00 till 3 on statistical report – From 3 till 4 reading mail – and 4 till 5 tending horses, making paths in snow etc –
Head – 8 hrs
Dec – 24, 1924
Left station at 9:00 Returned at 4:45
Began work at 8, watered horses, saddled up and got ready to go to Pagosa to mail allotment estimates – went to Pagosa and returned as above – Had a long hard day since the snow is hip deep and the roads were hardly broken
Mail & 7 hrs
Head – 1 hrs
1 horse one feed – 50 cents
Dec – 25, 1924
Xmas Day – No official work –
Dec – 26, 1924
Spent an hour from 8 till 9 watering horses, cleaning barn, and getting in water – Then a couple of hours cutting wood – went over to Seipels and got mail that they brought out for me the 24th – Left station at 1:00 Returned at 4:30 – Rode to mill to get some meat if I could – Scaled a few logs, found the log cutters back on the job and that they had no other logs skidded.
Head – 3 hrs
Mail & 2 hrs
Sales – 3 hrs
Dec – 27, 1924
Geo Norris the mail carrier was here last night and did not get away till after nikne this morning. Stayed at station till 12:00 Had an early dinner and left at 12:00 Returned at 5:00 – Went to Johnson sale and scaled logs –
Head 3 hrs
Sales – 5 hrs
Dec – 28, 1924
Sunday –
Dec – 29, 1924
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 4:00
Went to sale and skis and scaled all the logs, checked supervision of cutting area till about 2:00 Then came up though sale area to look for a thicker body of timber in case the snow gets too deep to log the scattered stuff – Also looking for corners and boundary lines – From 4: till 5: tending horses, feeding getting in water – etc –
Sales – 7 hrs
Head – 1 hrs
Dec 30, 1924
From 8 till 12:00 – Reading and filing mail, getting Census reports ready to post and talking to Hank Burt – From 1:00 till 2:00 saddled up watered horse helped Hank catch his horse – Rode up to Mrs. Larsons and took Census of her farm – Returned and did chores – Sure is snowing
Head 3 hrs
Census – 5 hrs
Dec – 31, 1924
Left station at 9:00 Returned at 4:00
Rode to Pagosa to mail Census reports and get some meat and groceries for we are clear out – Rest of day doing chores –
Mail & 6 hrs
Head – 2 hrs
2 horses one feed - $1.00
hay and grain
San Juan National Forest daybook of Glenn Dalton, Pagosa Ranger District, January 1 – 31, 1925. Marilyn T. Brown, transcriber, January and August, 2004. [Note by the transcriber: the handwriting is this journal is different, much more difficult to transcribe, spelling careless, not as neat and abbreviations are not consistent with previous journals]
Diary of –
Glenn Dalton
for Jan- 1925
Stamped:
FOREST SERVICE
SAN JUAN NATIONAL FOREST
DURANGO, COLORADO
FEB 4 – 1924 [sic]
RECEIVED
Answered __________________
Read, approved, & tabulated on D2-20
July 28, 1925
[initials:] SDA.
Jan – 1, 1925
Holliday [sic], no work.
Jan – 2, 1925
Began work at 8:00 – Making out monthly reports, also made report on special use of Burts? – Rex Hott came at 11:30, stayed for dinner. Geo- Norris came at 12:30 – Vic Johnson came at 11:45 and said the yard was full of unscaled logs – Told him I would come in after-noon – Norris wanted me to fill out the Census schedule since he might not be home when I got up there. Finished at 2:00 and went to mill. Scaled till 4:15 – Rode home arriving at 5:00
Head – 3 hrs
Census – 1 hr
Special uses – 1 hrs
Sales – 3 hrs
Jan – 3, 1924 [sic, he seems to use 1924 for a few days]
Water horses, saddled up and left station at 8:30 – Returned at 5:00 Scaled all logs at mill and all that were decked – a little supervision of cutting also – Found a few high stump – Reported to operator
Timber - Sales 8 hrs
Horse – 1 feed 25 cents
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Jan – 4, 1924
Sunday – no official work –
Jan – 5, 1924
Left station at 8:30 Rode to mill intending to get snow shoes that Norris sent out by Vic and Mark – Arrived and found they had no strap, strings or any thing else on them – If I had a pair of nebs a month ago I would have timber enough marked for the winter as it is the choppers are nigh on me – Scaled, what logs were checked - had dinner and returned home at 2:00 Spent rest of afternoon fixing up foot binders? on the nebs.
Sales – 5 hrs
Equip – Gen – 3 hrs
Jan – 6, 1924
Began work at 8:00 Read instructions about making timber survey report, made report -
From – 11 till 12:00 making special use report on Martinez Pasture case and adding up scale book – From 1:15 till 2:30 helping Stevens unload load of hay at station. Chopped up some wood and fed and watered horses –
Special uses – 1 hr
Timber Surveys – 3 hrs
Maint – I.O.E – 1 hr
Head – 3 hrs
Jan – 7, 1924
Watered horses, saddled up and left station at 8:40 – Rode to mill – Marked till noon – Scaled all logs at mill and decked in woods. Supervision of cutting and a little marking in after noon – Returned at 5:00 –
Sales – 7 hrs –
Head – 1 hrs –
Horse – one feed – 25 cents
Dinner – 35 cents
Jan. 8, 1925
Began work at 8:00 watered horses, then read and filed mail. Finished at 11:00 – From 11: till 12:15 Getting ready to go on Census work up on the Piedra and surrounding country – Stevens came at 12:30 with load of hay – Helped him unload – Left station at 2:20 – Rode to Toners ranch arriving at 6:00 – Took Census of his farm in evening –
Head – 4 hrs
Census – (office) 1 hrs
" (field) 4 hrs
Jan – 9, 1925
Left Toners at 8:30 Rode to C.R. Martin ranch on the Weminuche Alva Patterson was in Pagosa – Took Martins Census – Returned to Tuca Ranch and on to Stevens at about 4:30 or 5:00 Took his Census in evening –
Census – 9 hrs –
Jan – 10, 1925
Left Stevens Ranch at 8:30 – Arrived station about 11:00 – Got thawed out and had dinner – Stevens brought a load of hay – Finished unloading at 2:30 – Split wood rest of day except ½ hr tending horses –
Census – 3 hrs
Head – 4 hrs
Jan – 11, 1925
Sunday – No official work.
Jan – 12, 1925
Left station at 8:30 Rode to mill – Scaled logs Got dinner and scaled from 12:30 till 1:30 – Rode home – From 2:20 till 5:00 trying to tack up fence so horses can not get away – Did not finish –
Sales – 5 hrs
Head – 3 hrs
Jan – 13, 1925
Left station at 8:30 – Returned at 5:00 Took nebs and went to S.W – corner of school section range line next ¼ mile – Then went to 1/16 corner in Sec – 1- and ran line north -where they intersected must be nearly to corner – Scaled about 50 logs at mill at noon – ran lines till 3:30 – marked till 4:00 –
Sales – 8 hrs in f –
Jan – 14, 1925
Left station at 8:00 went on nebs to sale area and marked all day except a half hour at noon scaling at mill – Returned at 4:30 – Dinner at mill 35 cents
Sales – 8 hrs
Jan – 15, 1925
Left station at 8:30 – Rode to mill – scaled all logs in – Rode to woods to scale logs decked – only one load ahead – Killed 5 porcupine and returned to station at 1:00 – Had dinner – From 2 till 5:00 tacking up wires to hold horses at station –
Sales – 5 hrs –
Head – 3 hrs –
Jan – 16 – 1925
Left station at 9:00 From 8 till 9:00 getting equip ready to go to Dyke and vacinity[sic] to take Census – Took 6 or 7 farms and stayed at Hurts for night – Took his Census in evening –
Census in Field – 8 hrs
Jan – 17, 1925
Left Hurts at 8:20 – Rode back up to Selbys, took his Census also – Pattersens and McManns – Charley Johnson was not at home – Rode to Dyke. Got Dyke and Holliday then up to Juan Durans, Snows and Butchers arriving there at 4:45 – Stayed for night –
Census – 8 hrs –
Jan – 18, 1925
Left Butchers at 8:30 – Rode to Dan Russums and then to Charley Johnson – This completes the farms on this section Rode on home arriving at 4:30 –
Census – 8 hrs –
Jan – 19, 1925
Rode to sale leaving station at 8:00 – Scaled logs till noon – Also from 1:00 to 2:00 Returned to station at 2:45. Spent rest of day till 5:15 – chopping ice out of water hose to get water for horses – water is sure scarce –
Sales – 6 hrs
Head – 2 hrs
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Jan – 20, 1924 [sic]
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 5:00 - Rode to mill – Scaled some 50 logs – went to Pagosa with Vic Johnson – Bought supplies, also wrapping paper to send Census reports in – Called French about sale matters, marking and payments – Norris is to help me on the marking if possible – Told Vic Johnson that payments must go in promptly from now on – Was going to get Alva Patterson’s Census but he is home only in the evenings –
Sales – 2 hrs
Mail & - 5 hrs
Census – 1 hr
Jan – 21, 1925
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 5:00 Rode to sale area and marked timber all day –
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Horse – one feed – 25 cents
Timber sales – 8 hrs –
Jan – 22, 1925
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 5:00 Rode to mill scaled logs in the fore noon – Marked in afternoon
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Horse one feed – 25 cents
Timber sales – 8 hrs –
Jan – 23, 1925
From 8 till 10:00 at station getting ready to go to town. Got Census schedules checked and ready to mail – Left at 10:00 Rode to mill. Scaled all logs and rode on to town – Spent rest of day getting Census reports – Got Alva Patterson’s after the show at about 11:00 p.m.
Census 2 hrs in office
Census 6 hrs in f.
Sales – 1 hr in f-
Dinner at Pagosa 50 cents
Supper at Pagosa – 40 cents
Lodging – 50 cents –
1 horse – hay – 25 cents
Jan – 24, 1925 –
Began work in Pagosa at 8:20. Got rest of Census schedules – Prepared them for mailing – mailed Card to Supervisor about completing Census work, mailed schedules, supplies, etc – and got mail – Left Pagosa at 11:30. Returned to station at 2:00 – Got dinner – From 3 till 5 adding up scale book –
Census – in f – 6 hrs
Sales in office – 2 hrs
Jan – 25, 1925
Sunday, no official work –
Jan – 26, 1925
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 5:00
Scaled till noon – after dinner Vic Johnson and I went to woods looked over cutting and marking – Vic showed me what trees I left that he thought should be marked – We’ll see what Norris says – Returned to mill scaled 2 loads and returned to station –
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Horse – 1 feed – 25 cents
Sales – 8 hrs
Jan – 27, 1925 –
Left station at 1:00 Returned at 3:00 – Spent forenoon from 8: till 12:00 transferring files from – 1 till 3, scaling so Norris and I can spend all the day in the woods - From 3 till 5 in office on files –
Head – 6 hrs
Sales – 2 in f-
Jan – 28, 1925
Norris (Ranger) came yesterday evening – Left station about 8 and returned at 5:00 – First rode through cut over area and then started marking it over under Norris supervision – I was wrong. Trees I had believed were intermediates are really mature – and the over mature stuff I was marking I thought was cull mature – so I have to change it –
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Horse one feed 25 cents
Sales – 8 hrs
Jan – 29, 1925
Left station at 8:15 – Rode to mill – Norris and I scaled logs that is he scaled explaining deductions for defect describing defects and the ways of figuring cull percent – Got dinner. Spent afternoon marking – I first picked the trees to be marked and then Norris gave his opinion – I am glad because in all but 2 or 3 cases I marked as he would have him self – Returned at 5:00 –
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Sales 8 hrs –
Jan – 30, 1925 –
From – 8 till 8:30 helping Norris get ready to leave – From 8:45 till 11 putting ? or ? on new pair of 12x60 nebs I purchased for use on the sale cost me - $12.50 – From – 11: till 12:00 transferring files – They sure are in a mess – From 1:00 till 4:00 at mill scaling and getting some meat and butter – from 4 till – 5:00 in office – writing up diary, reading mail – etc –
Head – 3 hrs –
Maint – P.O.E. 2 hrs –
Sales – 3 hrs –
Jan – 31, 1925
Began work at 8:00 – From then till 10:00 doing transfer work on files – From 10:00 till 3?00 reading and filing mail – From 3 till 5:00 making up 26 and started on Form 4. From 7:00 till 9:00 fixing large guide cards to fit small ? card box and making up some job list ? cards (874?-13 –
Head – 10 hrs -
San Juan National Forest daybooks of Glenn Dalton, Pagosa Ranger District, March 1 – 31, 1925.
Diary of
Glenn Dalton
- March -
- 1925 –
Read, tabulated on D2-20 & discussed with G.D. 7-29-25
[initials] SDA
March – 1, 1925
Sunday
Worked from 9:00 till 11:00 – Making out service report and reading rest of mail –
Head 2 hrs
March – 2, 1925
Began work at 8 – quit at 5 –
Left station at 8:00 Rode to Johnson sale rode through marking to see if there was enough left for another week, This is about as long as the roads will last – Scaled what logs were on the yard and was home at 12:00 – From 1:00 till 5:00 working up a progress map of the sale – wrote up diary at quitting time -
Sales in f – 4 hrs
" " O. 4 hrs
March 3, 1925
From 8 till about 8:40 getting ready to go to Pagosa – Left 8:40 Returned 4:40 – went to town to send in service report and cutting report and to get meat and other groceries which we needed – Took until after 5:00 to feed, unsaddle and water horses –
Wrote up Diary in evening – P.S. Got a saddle to try for a few days, left mine in Pagosa –
Head – 9 hrs –
Mail S. – 5 hrs
Maint – P.O.E. 2 hrs –
March – 4, 1925
From 8 till 9 getting equip ready to maintain telefone[sic] line – Saddled up and left at 9:00 Rode up to O’Neal Park School house where I met Del. Thayer – From there we followed line to City Limits of Pagosa – where line went through fences I followed it on webbs. braced up one pole, Cut the Turkey Springs line loose since it was grounded – Then we found one cross on the line between here and Pagosa – Returned to Station at 7:00 p.m. and found the phone line in fine shape –
Maint – Tel Line – in f- 9 hrs
" " " - in Head – 1 hrs
March – 5- 1925 –
Left station at 8:15 – Rode to mill – Scaled all logs on yard, which took till 11:20 – Returned to station at 11:55 – From 1: till 1:40 adding up scale since report, the money on deposit is short and I must keep close watch on it - Filed mail till 2:00 – From 2:00 till 3:00 writing Entry Surveys Letter and looking up Data – From 3 till 4:45 putting new guide sheets in 874-C note book and forms in place – wrote up Diary and quit at 5:00
Sales – in f – 4
( " " O – 1 ) of above
Head – 3
Entry Surveys – 1
March 6, 1925
Left station at 8:00 Rode to Pagosa, to get check and cash it and pay for saddle that I bought on trial and promised to bring it back or pay for it today. Brought my old saddle back on extra horse I took in – was in Pagosa about 45 minutes – Bought a rasp to shoe horses and some buckles for carrying cases - Returned to station at 2:00 having seen Norris (Geo) on way about hauling the Gov ditcher to Pagosa – From 3:00 till 4:00 changing stirrups and cinches from old saddle to new – From 4:00 till 5:30 working on Leather Cantinas sewing up ripped places, did not finish –
Maint P.O.E. (f) – 6 hrs –
" " (o) – 1 hr
Maint Equip Gen – 1 hrs
March 7, 1925
Began work at 8:00 repairing leather cantinas. These have seen hard use and were about to pieces – Sewed them up with awl, rivited [sic] new straps and buckle holders on and also put on 2 new buckles that were missing. Finished about 12:10 – From 1:00 till 5:00 repairing my schopps? – shortened them, sewed up ripped places and put in new straps – Quit at 5:00 From 6:00 to 7:00 reading mail, also wrote up diary –
Maint – P.O.E. – 4 hrs
" Equip – Gen – 4 hrs –
Head – 1 hr
March 8 – 1925
Sunday, no official work – (Repaired riding boots and pair of shoes)
Snowed and rained all day –
March 9, 1925
Began work at 8:15 – quit at 5:00 – Filed mail, checked over telefone [sic] agreement for the Johnson Lbr Co – Wrote memo on it to Supervisor – filled in fire prevention program expected for 1924 for La Plata District – Looked up C.L. Minum pasture case, he is dead – From 12:00 till 1:00 no work – From 1:00 till 3:30 making a list of property on the Piedra District as of Dec – 31, 1924 – From 3:30 till 5:00 finishing up progress map for Vic Johnson Sale – wrote up diary.
Snowed and blowed all day –
Head – 4 hrs –
Equip – Gen – 2 hrs
Sales in O – 2 hrs
March – 10 _ 1925
worked at station today – Still snowing and blowing in the early morning and it kept it up all day – Spent the entire forenoon taking some hanging shelves out of office room (that is the old office room) and putting them in front room where I have my office equip; and cleaning up desk, arranging stuff on shelves etc. Worked from 1:30 till 5 making up a field grazing map of the district –
Head – 4 hrs
Grazing – 4 hrs
March – 11 – 1925
From 8:00 till 8:30, getting ready to go to mill. Left at 8:30 Rode to mill, took over an hr. to go the 1 ½ miles, the roads are out of sight and depended upon horse to find road which she did – Found there was nothing doing at mill, log cutters just back from town, and the mill crew in town with only a few logs in – Returned to station at 11:30 – Spent from 1:00 till 3:00 finishing up grazing map. From 3:20 till 4:50 putting new handles in marking hatchets. Wrote up diary –
Sales in (f) 3 hrs
Sales in (o) 3 hrs Should be Ser.Equip Gen
Grazing (o) 2 hrs
March 12 – 1925
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 5:15 – Rode to Pagosa to get mail, and send in some mail and get some supplies – Returned to mill about 3:00 Saw Vic and informed him that I had just gotten receipt for his 5th payment and there for it would not be necessary to close the sale at the end of the week – Scaled a few logs and since it was snowing so hard I came on home –
Mail & Supplies – 6 hrs
Timber Sales – 2 hrs –
Dinner at Pagosa 60 cents –
March – 13, 1925 –
Spent the day in the office – From 8:00 till 10:00 reading and filing mail. 10:00 to 11:00 checking over L.P. property list and writing ? 11:00 to 12:00 getting mail together, straightening up office, ? mail and got out equip to make fire map – From 1:00 till 5:00 working on map – VI of fire plan –
Head – 3 hrs –
Equip – Gen – 1 hr
Fire Prevention 4 hrs –
March – 14 – 1925
Left station at 8:30 Returned at 5:30 – Rode to mill, spent the entire day surveying to locate lines between Private and Gov land and hunting for homestead corners –
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
1 one horse 1 feed – 25 cents
Sales – 8 hrs –
March – 15 – 1925
Sunday – no official work - Fixed shoes, saddle etc –
March – 16, 1925
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 11:00
Rode to mill Scaled all logs that are cut and returned – Saw a coyote and from now on a gun is part of my riding equip – From 11:00 till 2:00 reading mail, making promise cards for annual jobs, posted adm – Handbook, field notebook and put new back on adm Hdk – From 2;00 till 5:00 working on map VI of fire plan –
Sales – 3 hrs – in f
Head – 2 hrs – o –
Fire Prevention 3 hrs – o –
March – 17 – 1925
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 11:00 Rode to sale area where I met Vic Johnson and Martinez – together we showed Martinez the corners (or 1 of them) of his homestead – also showed the choppers the lines where they are now cutting. Rode on to mill and pointed out line trees on south end of his East line – Returned to area just south of School Sec – and marked till I could not stay on the snow any more – It was not cold last night - Had dinner between 11:00 & 12:00 – From 12:00 till 5:00 working on fire plans – Started on organization chart, found it was entirely different that last years call, Maloy – He looked his up and found that they are old ones – He then called up Hunter and found that the new ones had not arrived from Denver yet but could be here soon – Spent rest of afternoon on cooperation map – a lot more can be done along this line it seems to me –
Sales – 3 hrs –
Fire Prevention 5 hrs –
March – 18 – 1925
Left station at 8:00 – Rode to Sale area where I marked till noon and returned to station at 12:00 From 1:00 till 5:15 in office – 2 hours writing up fire plan contracts, and talking with Maloy on fire plans – 1 hour writing weather report letters to Lloyd Brown of Hesperus and Supervisor, 1 hour making up some annual job cards and writing letter about work plans to Supervisor – wrote up diary and quit – Loring called up last night and said Otto Snow wanted an S-22 sale for 20 M timber down on Devil Cr. Loring is going to his sale there Thurs or Fri night and I intend to meet him there – Snow is at present hauling timber from the mill so can see him to –
Sales – 4 hrs – in f –
Head – 1 hrs
R.S. weather – 1 hrs –
Fire prevention – 2 hrs.
March – 19 – 1925
Left station about 8:15 Rode to saw mill on Devil Cr – about 20 miles or so by the way I had to go. Saw Snow and Fulmer on the way – Each want an S-22 for 20 M. of green timber – Decided that they were to come up tomorrow forenoon and we would locate lines and timber – Arrived at mill about 3:30 – Loring came later and we looked over small area where the choppers are cutting in evening –
S-22 Sales – 8 hrs
Horse – 1 feed – 25 cents
Supper – 35 cents
Per diem – ¼ day 30 cents –
March – 20, 1925 –
Began work about 7:00 Helped Loring scale logs till about noon – had dinner and the four of us went up on Criss Mt - located boundry [sic] lines 2 Gov 40s – marked out about 40 M of timber – Returned to mill and made S-22 Sales to Clarence O Snow and James G Fulmer – quit about 5:00 -
Sales – 5 hrs –
S-22 Sales – 4 hrs –
3 meals – at 35 cents – 105
3 feeds to horse – 75 cents
March – 21, 1925
Began work at 6:40 by going up to Mr. W.M. Snows with Loring, mostly to meet Mr. Snow and Loring had some business with him – Returned to Sale area and helped Loring scale till 9:30 – Left mill at 10:00 – Rode to Dykes Saw Dyke about proposed development of 3 Springs on Criss Mt – Rode on home arriving at 3:30 no noon hour –
Timber Sales – 2 hrs –
S-22 Sales – 4 hrs –
Grazing Supervision 2 hrs
B – 35 cents
Horse - 25 cents
March 22 – 1925
Sunday, no official work – Spent the day dong maint work on car –
March 23, 1925
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 10:00 Rode to the mill to see how things were going and to see Vic – He was not there and the choppers are still cutting some private timber – Snow was too soft to mark and returned home – John Stevens was out here at the old mill unloading hay talked fire prevention and plans with him and got him to sign up a transportation contract - From 11:00 to 12:00 making file copies of S-22 sales to Snow and Fulmer – From 11:00 till 5:00 working on fire plan organization chart –
Timber Sales – 2 hrs in (f)
S-22 " - 1 hr –
Fire prevention 5 hrs –
March 24, 1925
Left station at 8:00 Rode over to Seibels to get Milton to sign a transportation contract – Returned at 9:30 – Finished up chart, after calling Toner and Keane for verbal permission to list equip such as horses, pack stock etc – wrote fire plan letter to Supervisor - Finished at 12:00 From 1:00 till 5:00 working on sign plan map for La Plata District
Fire prevention 4 hrs
(1 hr of above in f.)
Head – 4 hrs (should be Fire Prev. or Maint. N.O.J.? [reviewer wrote this in]
March 25, 1925
Hired Seibel and his power saw, team and sled to get in some wood, spent the day from 8:00 till 5:30 at it –
Head – 8 hrs –
March – 26, 1925
From 8:00 till 10 – finishing up sign plan map – 10: to 12 – writing grazing files, special use letters and ? up fire plan map and charts ready to go on mail – In afternoon made allotment report, added up scale book and almost all the work of making a cutting report – want to look sale over before I finish it – Spent about an hour digging snow out of Creek so water would go under bridge – made a free use permit to George Stone and talked with him a while about cutting timber under free use -
Head – 3 hrs –
Grazing – 1 hr – (Range Imp)
Special uses - 1 hr
Free use – 1 hr
Sales – 2 hrs
March 27, 1925
worked this morning from 7:30 till 9:00 on saddle horse taking porcupine quills out of her nose – Sure had a time – Then I made a free use permit for fire wood to Whitead – Spent rest of forenoon on 874-C note book putting in inspection out lines - from 1:00 till 5:00 repairing pack bags and greasing leather equip in the ? of pack strap – bridle, halters etc – Wrote up diary – Snowed fairly hard from 7 till this evening and has not quit yet –
Maint P.O.E. 5 hrs
Head – 3 hrs –
March 28, 1925
Left station at 8:30 – Returned at 5:30 – Went to Pagosa to post mail and get a load of groceries –
Mail & Supplies – 8 hrs
March 29, 1925
Worked from 9 till 2 with exception of noon hour reading and filing 2 weeks mail – At least yesterdays mail was the first in 2 weeks and got 4 large envelopes full –
Head – 4 hrs
Sunday
March 30, 1925
Left station at 8:00 Rode up to Piedra Park and from there up on Williams Cr. Climed [sic] to divide between Williams Creek and Weminuche Creek to make snow measurements. The snow is off the South slopes but still in the flats and north slopes – Found about 20 inches of snow on divide – Returned to Park and stopped at Jack Keanes Ranch at 6:00. Rode all except about 30 minutes at noon – Talked fire prevention and suppression with Mr. Keane in evening, he is an old timer and very willing to cooperate –
Research S-I R 9 hrs –
March 31, 1925
Left Keanes at 8:00 Rode to Stevens Ranch and as far as I could from there to Bridge R.S. – walked on down to R.S. – Could not get my horse there for the snow and the Martin Ditcher is too much to drag or carry alone so I got a tool ? and returned to station (winter camp) at 1:00 – Roads are soft and in places muddy – From 2:00 till 5:00 sharpening up axes and hatchets –
Research S, I, P – 4 hrs
Maint – Equip – Gen 1 in f-
" " " 3 in o-
San Juan National Forest daybook of Glenn Dalton, Pagosa Ranger District, May 1 – 31, 1925. Marilyn T. Brown, transcriber, January and August, 2004.
Diary of
Glenn Dalton
For May 1925
Read, checked & analyzed on D-2-20. Diary is good & time correctly chgd. with 1 possible exception.
SDA
10-15-25
May 1, 1925
Left station at 8:00 Returned at 12:00 Took letter of transmittal down to Vic Johnson for 6th payment on timber sale – Said he would send payment Monday, May 4th Returned to sale area and scaled logs almost finished and would have except it looked like rain so I hurried home – It stormed west and north of here but not here – Worked from 1:00 till 6:00 making cutting report, snow scale report, monthly work schedule, wrote trail Plan map schedule, finished up form 4, and 26, made report on Licenses sold to game department – went over promise cards for May and filed mail – and copies of my letters etc –
Timber sales – 4 hrs – f
" " 2 hrs – o
Fish & Game 1 " o
Head – 2 hrs – o
May – 2 – 1925
Left Station at 8:00 – Returned at 11:00 Drove to Pagosa and posted mail after getting account sworn to – bought all the groceries I could haul and came home – The mail came at 11:10 got it – unloaded grub and then looked over mail – Worked from 1:00 till 6:00 in office – From 1:00 till 3?00 reading and filing mail – from 3:00 till 6:00 copying fire plan chart for key men and rangers and Supervisor – I have to make 9 copies and a little over 2 is all I got done in 3 hrs –
Mail & Supplies – 3 hrs –
Head – 3 hrs
Fire Prevention 3 hrs –
19 miles with car at 7 cents mile –
May 3, 1925 Sunday
Left station at 8:30 – Returned at 4:30 – Drove up to Bridge R.S. –taking some of the tools and spent the day getting trail equip mostly camp equip ready for trail crew – Dick Parker came last night and he helped pick out what he needed – Found that there was hardly a cooking utensil left and so I made a list of articles needed to get tomorrow – After I got home we decided to go to Pagosa in the evening since I wanted my wife to try the baths at Pagosa for her trouble – Left about 6:30+ -
Maint Piedra Canyon trail – 7 hrs
22 4/10 miles in car –
May – 4, 1925
In Pagosa and to work at 7:30 – Bought supplies for crew and my self – Returned to Station 9:30 – unloaded and changed clothes and loaded up again – Left at 10:00 Drove up to Bridge R.S. – Left stuff and then Road [sic] down to the Bridge across the Weminuche – or Sand Cr – Decided to let it go till other trails are done. The water is high and the trail below is getting dry and hard – Returned to Bridge Station and Drove home arriving at 5:00 –
Mail & Supplies – 1 hr –
Maint Piedra trail 8 hrs
From Pagosa to winter camp – 9 ½
winter camp and return from Bridge – 22 4/18
May – 5, 1925
Left station at 8:30 – Drove to sale area and scaled up rest of logs and returned at – 10:00 – Brought map of sale up to date and Started work on fire charts – From 1:00 till 2:00 Martinez came to find location of Gov lands so as to keep his sheep of [off?] them and to see about a special use on an isolated Gov 80. From 2:00 till 5:00 working on fire charts – wrote up diary after 5:00 –
Timber Sales – 2 hrs – f
" " 1 " (o)
Fire Prevention 4 hrs (o)
Grazing – 1 hr – (o)
3 miles in car
May – 6, 1925 –
Left station about 8:15 with Supervisor Hunter, Deputy Anderson, Forest Assistant – Robb and Mr. Spencer & Donery to inspect the Johnson 6-30-24 Sale – Spent the day on the sale except for an hour between 4:30 and 5:30 in the office going over sale map and methods of handling – My marking was either to light or too heavy, lots of high stump, big tops and poor brush work – The toilet at the sale needs to be fly proofed –
Timber Sales – 8 hrs –
(7 of above in field)
May 7- 1925 –
Began work at 7:00 packing up office and personell [sic] equip – furniture etc – worked till 4:30 with exception of noon hour – Left station at 4:30 drove to Pagosa to get my gloves and some gas and meat – Met Mr Spencer and he talked to me about the sale - Returned to station at 7:00 –
Transfer of station – 8 hrs –
Mail & Supplies – 2 hrs -
May – 8, 1925
Began work at 7:00 – Worked till 10:00 finishing packing, moved cook stove and furniture out side – John Stevens and J.T. Corrigan came with 2 teams and wagons at 10:00 Loaded up – Left station at 1:30 – Arriving Bridge R.S.- at 2:30 Rained some and the roads were muddy – wagons arrived at 5:30 – unloaded – and had stove up at 6:30
Transfer of station – 10 hrs
11 2/10 miles with car –
May – 9 – 1925 –
Began work at 7:00 worked till 3:00 except for half hr. at noon unpacking, cleaning up house and putting things in place – From – 3:00 till 4:00 cleaning out wood shed and storing some things there - From 4:00 till 5:30 cleaning out tool room and putting tools in place –
Transfer of station - 7 hrs –
Head - 3 hrs
May – 10 – 1925 –
Sunday
Began work at 8:30 – Mowed Lawn till 9:30 – Left at 9:30 and returned at 10:00 Drove up to Stevens and got mail - From 10:00 till 11:00 Reading Mail – From 11:00 till 1:00 making copies of fire charts – 1:00 till 2:30 Dinner - 3:30 – 5:30 work on fire charts finished –
Head – 2 hrs
Mail & - 1 hrs
Fire Prevention 5 hrs
May – 11, 1925
Began work at 7:30 – Read mail, 8:00 till 9 – getting fire charts done up to send in mail to Rangers, Supervisor and key men – 9:00 till 10:00 – talking grazing matters with Jack Keane - 10:00 – 11:00 filing mail – 11:00 12:00 and 12:30 till 5:30 writing letters of instructions for key men – trail crew, S-Sales policy letter to Super, filling out questionair [sic] about fire plans – and reading fire manual –
Grazing (o) – 1 hr –
Head – 2 hr –
Fire Prevention 6 hrs –
May – 12 – 1925
Began work at 7:15 – Caught up horse and saddled up – Left station at 7:30 – Rode down trail down Piedra River to Hayden Cr. Fire box – Inspected trail work done by Parker and Patterson – Left fire instructions at their camp. Found they had done a fairly good job – excellent as far as cleaning the trail its self goes – Inspected fire box at Hayden Cr and found all OK except saw was not brander? – Returned to station at 12:30 – From 1:30 till 4:30 working on car, greasing and cleaning grease cup and holes and also putting new points on coils – From 4:30 till 5:30 or 5:45 – making trip schedule and getting everything ready for trip tomorrow –
Maint imp Piedra trail 5 hrs – in field
Maint – P.O.E – 3 hrs –
Head – 1 hrs –
May – 13, 1925
Left station at 7:45 – Drove to Whiteads ranch and left fire chart and his Per Diem man card – Posted sign ? at top of O’Neal hill on way - Drove on to Seibels ranch and left his fire chart and card – From there on to Johnson timber sale where I scaled logs till 12:00 – Met Vic and told him about high stump, big top brush scattering and toilet – He promised actions on all and took the timber matter up with his choppers almost at once – From 1:00 till 5:30 Scaling, marking and inspection as I scaled – Posted 2 more signs on way to mill –
Fire Prevention – 3 hrs
Timber sales – 6 hrs –
Dinner and supper at mill 35 cents per meal –
From Station to mill plus detours into Whiteads, and Seibels and from mill to woods one trip – total 17.8 miles –
May – 14, 1925 –
Left mill at 7:15 – Drove up to work, ran a compass line to find – Gov timber, marked till 10:00 – Scaled some 40 logs that were skidded – and left mill at 10:40 for Pagosa – Posted 2 fire signs on way – Posted mail in Pagosa, got some meat and repairs for box and after getting dinner which took about 30 minutes I Left Pagosa at 12:45 or 1:00 – Posted one fire sign on way, stopped at winter camp R.S. – and got fire map and came on home arriving – at 2:30 – I also took in fire chart for Ray Smith at bank – From 2:30 till 3:00 unloading and putting meat away – 3:00 till 5:00 reading and filing mail –
Timber Sales – 4 hrs –\
Fire Prevention 2 hrs -/ in f
Mail & - 1 hr
Head - 2 hrs –
From mill to work on sale and back, from mill to Pagosa and from Pagosa to Bridge R.S. 29 2/10 miles –
Break – at mill -35-
Dinner Pagosa -40-
May – 15 – 1925 –
Began work at 8:00 Shod saddle horse behind and pack horse all around – Finished at 11:00 From 11:00 till 12:00 adding up scale book, scaled about 50,000 ft of timber last two days - From 1:00 till 2:00 changing focet [faucet?] on water pipes so as to water rest of lawn – broke one but put on another – From 2:00 till 5:00 in office making up requisition and report on application for Special use by J.B. Martinez, Jr. Wrote up diary and quit at 5:00 Drove up to Toners but they are not home this took about 25 minutes –
Maint P.O.E. – 3 hrs –
Sales – 1 hr –
Head – 3 hrs –
Special use – 1 hr –
May – 16 – 1925
Left station at 7:00 a.m. – Drove to Whiteads Ranch got him and drove back to county road and down to upper end of sale area to a small patch of timber – Whitead is going to log it to the mill and I wanted to find just where it was and get it marked – Left timber at 10:00, Drove to Pagosa going by mill where I left Whitead and stopped to ask Vic – if there were many logs skidded – He told me they were nearly out of scaled logs and he had 2 teams skidding – went on to Pagosa. Bought flag pole roap [sic] and posted mail that has to be in Durango – 20 of May – no work from 12 till 1:00 – Called up Maloy he came in and we divided up the shipment of ? and he brought in some batteries for my telephone – I talked with Mr Rumbaugh about planting fish and learned that the county will furnish trucks to haul them as far as they can go - Left town about 2:15 and drove out to Vic Johnsons mill and onto logging area where I scaled logs till 5:10 – Drove on to Bridge R.S. arriving at 6:30
Total miles for trip – 44 miles –
Dinner at Pagosa – 40 cents
Const – Piedra trail – 3
Timber Sales – 6
Mail & - 1
Sunday – May 17, 1925
Worked from 1:00 till 2:00 taking flag pole down and putting in new roap and putting pole back up – From 2:00 till 6:00 cutting opening in north part of barn to put car in – did not get door made up –
Head – 5 hrs –
May – 18 – 1925 –
Left station at 8:00 a.m. – Returned at 8:15 p.m. rode to Turkey Springs met Butcher, rode out to fire box and inspected it – Rode on to Butchers, ate lunch I had with me – Rode to S.E. Corner of T. 35 N. R S.W. – located Forest land lines – took man in charge of the Hersch Merc Co – sheep around and showed him lines and warned him not to trespass on Gov – land – Rode by mill – Phoned my wife – She was not well, Vic said there was only one days skidding ahead so decided to go home and come back Wednesday – while I am on trip fixing telephone line and pasture fence at Turkey
Grazing Supervision 8 hrs
Fire Prevention 2 hrs –
May – 19 – 1925 –
Spent the day at and near the station From 8:00 till 9:00 filing mail, posting grazing record in note book and going over promise cards – 9:00 till 9:30 – inspected fire cache here at station and filled out inspection blank – 9:30 till 12:00 making allotment report and estimate – From 1:00 till 1:30 fixing nozzle on hose and irrigating lawn – 1:30 till 2:30 adding up scale book and checking up on payments – 2:30 till 3:30 cleaning up yard – 3:30 till 5:00 putting up signs at 2 camp grounds one at bridge and other this side, Cleaned up camp ground and the ? rocks out of 2 grades each side of bridge –
Head – 5 hrs
Fire Prevention 2 hrs –
Sales – 1 hrs –
May - 20, 1925 –
Began work at 7:45 – wrote trip schedule, got equip together and loaded up – Left station (Bridge) at 8:45 – Drove to upper end of sale area, inspected cutting just started here and marked a few more trees – Drove on the cutting area just north of mill – Scaled and marked till 2:30 – Drove to mill, got some bacon and then went up to winter camp R.S. – Got telephone wire and drove to Turkey Springs R.S. – Stopped on way, and connected line with newer wire – Called central as soon as got to Turkey and got him alright - over [to back of page]
arrived at Turkey Springs at 5:15 –
Head – 1 hr -(Should have been chgd to main purpose of trip. A)
Timber Sales – 6 hrs –
Maint – Tel line – 2 hrs –
Total distance of 23 8/10 miles with car
Per diem ¾ day
May 21 – 1925 –
Left Turkey Springs R.S. at 8:30 – Drove up with in about a mile of where the Turkey line joins the Cimarrona – walked along the line to end – put on one new insulator, Set a strut and put up pole that was down, cut tree of off line ? Cut trees and branches away from line – Then returned to car and straightened up 3 poles that leaned badly and tied wire to 2 insulators – Returned to Station at 12:30 for dinner – Came up quite a thunder storm but little rain – waited till 3:00 – worked on line till 5:30 – Drove over to winter camp
over [to reverse side of page]
after more wire – put up 2 more poles and there are 4 more down that I know of now - Returned to Turkey at 7:10 p.m.
Maint – Tel – Line – 8 hrs –
From Turkey cut on line and back – 5 6/10 miles
From Turkey cut on line and back – 4 4/10 miles (Trip to winter camp not charged ) –
Per diem – 1 day –
May – 22 – 1925
Began work at 8:00 – Drove up to work on telephone line – about 9:30 I broke my shovel handle – Drove back to Turkey Springs and got another one – and worked on line till 12:30 – Left at 1:30 and worked on line till 4:00 – Drove over to counting pens, posted five signs and got a load of wood on way back – arrived at station at 5:30 –
Maint Telephone line – 7 hrs –
Fire Prevention 1 hrs –
Total miles for 3 trips from station to work – 7 2/10 miles –
Per diem – 1 day –
May 23, 1925
Began work at 7:30 – Got equip and tools in car, Drove to Sale area where Stone? was cutting scaled logs decked and marked till 10:00 Drove on to area near mill and scaled till 12:00 – Left mill at 1:00 Scaled and marked till 3:30 – Drove up to winter camp – Got some grub I left there and drove on to Bridge R.S. getting mail on way – Arrived station at 5:10 –
Timber Sales – 6 hrs –
Maint – Telephone – 2 hrs –
Dinner at mill – 35 cents
Per diem – ¾ day less expense of 1 meal – 60 cents
May – 24, 1925 –
Sunday – no official work –
May – 25, 1925
Began work at 8:00 Read and filed mail wrote special use, trail and spring development letters to Supervisor, added up scale book and checked up on amount cut with payments – Posted adm Hand book and transferred old pages from fire manual to new one Did the same with the ? Hand book and returned it - From 3:00 till almost 4:00 putting one shoe each on saddle & pack horse that they had pulled – From then till 5:00 wedging and putting in axe handles –
Timber Sales – 1 hrs
Maint . Equip Gen – 1 hr
" P.O.E. – 1 hr
Head – 5 hrs
May – 26, 1925 –
Left station at 8:00 – Returned at – 11:50 – went up and fixed poles between here and Stevens House – and put on cross arms – From 1:00 till four (4) putting brackets further apart on poles between house and river – put in dead man at last pole at house and pulled wire up – Mr. Hunter came at about 4:00 – Spent the time from 4:00 till evening talking with him, planning trip and condemning 3 tools and 2 axes –
Maint – Tel. Line – 7 hrs –
Head – 1 hrs
May 27, 1925
Began work at 7:30 – Packed up and let about 10 of 8 - Rode to winter camp – got some milk & ? Rode on to Sale area – Supervisor Hunter and I scaled till almost noon – went to mill & got dinner, Began work at 1:00 Scaled till 3:00 Got horses and rode to Turkey Springs about 4:30 – Met Parker & Patterson at Turkey – they are my trail crew –
Timber Sales – 6 hrs –
Maint Devil trail - 2 hrs
May – 28, 1925 –
Left Turkey at 7:30 – Mr. Hunter and I rode up the sheep driveway and then along the Devil Mt trail to the Devil Mt Box Inspected it and put padlock on it. Inspected work done on Devil Mt trail by men – Found a very poor job – turning? had been made to avoid cutting logs and trail was not brushed out - ? ? cases trees need to be cut down Returned to station at 3:00 – 3:00 till 5:00 cut some wood, put bait in can for garbage can (over)
and started supper –
Maint – Devil trail – 6 hrs –
Unclass – 2 hrs
May - 29, 1925 –
Began work at 7:00 – Caught horses, saddled and packed up – Got trail men lined up and put house in shape – Left Turkey – at 8:00 Rode to mill – Scaled all logs decked Got dinner – Rode up to upper cutting area, inspected cutting, found some big tops - Gave choppers to understand our sale policy – Rode up to Larsons, saw her about grazing fees, said she had already sent them in – Rode on up to Johnsons, saw him about some free use he wants – rode on home Met Jack Moss on way Spent 25 or 30 minutes talking to him – mainly fire cooperation – Found he was willing to help us all he can – Got home at 6:00
Timber Sales – 5 hrs
Grazing – 2 hrs
Free use – 1 hr
Fire Prevention – 1 hr –
May 30 – 1925 –
Decoration Day
Rode up to Cimarrona Station. Took pack horse – Fished a couple of hours – packed up shovels, axes and mattox? and rode home – Inspected Williams fire box on way and locked it – got home about 5:00 Drove up and got mail –
Equip – Gen – 2 hrs –
Fire Prevention 2 hrs –
Mail & 1 hrs
May 31, 1925 –
Sunday no official work -
San Juan National Forest daybook of Glenn Dalton, Pagosa Ranger District, June 1 – 30, 1925. Marilyn T. Brown, transcriber, January and August, 2004.
Diary of
Glenn Dalton
June 1925
Read, checked & analyzed. Good. No errors in time distribution found
[initials ?] Oct 15, 1925
June – 1, 1925
Was going to do office work today but got word that Dick Parkers aunt had died last night and they wanted him to call or come in – Drove to Turkey Springs and met Alva Patterson coming from town -
He went on up to work and I waited at Turkey –
Dug hole and buried rubbish collected at station and in wood shed –
Dick came in at noon telephoned and went back to work. Left station at 1:30 or 2:00 – Drove up to road was going over and scale but found my mules and Stevens horses – Drove them ahead of car up above the Hott Ranch –
Got home at 3:30
Mowed the station lawn
Unclass – 5 hrs
Maint – P.O.E. 1 hrs
Head – 2 hrs
June 2, 1925
Began work at 7:00 doing up office work. Worked till 8:00 Stevens called up and said he had my mule back in so I went up and we branded him and I brought him back arriving at 10:00 – worked from 10:00 till 12:00 and 1:00 till 7:00 making up forms 26, 4, and 72, sale or cutting report, time for trail crew, wrote letter to Laurence Snow about grazing fees – made free use permit for John Johnson and called it a day –
Head – 5 hrs
Sales – 2 hrs
Grazing 1 hrs
Maint – P.O.E. 2 hrs
June – 3, 1925
Left station at 7:40 –
Drove to upper end of sale area, scaled logs, drove on to area near mill –
Scaled till 11:00 Drove on to Pagosa, posted mail, bought groceries, hose [horse?] shoes and other supplies –
Returned to sale area at 2:45 – Scaled till 4:00 – Drove home arriving at 5:15
Timber sales – 4 hrs
Mail & Supplies – 4 hrs
June 4, 1925 –
Raining this morning and rained all day long –
Trail men came up from camp on river – Alva out on to his ranch and Dick packed up a load of grub and he and Luke? House went back right after dinner –
Spent the day at the station fixing up time sheets for Patterson for this month, wrote official use letter to Mrs Florence Min? fire plan letter to Supervisor and read and filed all mail – Made up a field map of grazing units, no allowed, moves? of permittees and number of stock –
also letter of instructions to trail crew for rest of trails to be cleaned –
Quit about 5:30 –
Maint Driveway 1 hrs
" within? trail 1 hrs
Special uses – 1 hr
Grazing - 2 hs
Head - 3 hs
June 5, 1925
Began work at 8:00
Quit at 5:00
From 8 till 12 – working at water system trying to get it so I can get it repaired - it quit raining at noon but it was so wet I stayed at station –
It rained from noon 2nd till today noon almost steady –
From 1:00 till 4:00 grinding valves on car putting new part on speedometer and general maint work –
4:00 till 5:00 taking property inventory –
Maint imp – Bridge R. Station 4 hrs
Maint P.O.E. – 3 hrs
Quip – Gen – 1 hr
June 6, 1925
Hired Stevens and his team to get in wood –
Since we were completely out
Had a little that was wet.
From 8:00 till 12:15 helping him fall timber and cut it into logs –
From 1:00 till 2:00 splitting out some posts and braces from a pitch log we got in –
From 2:00 till 5:00 chopping wood – Left station at 5:00 drove up and got mail and returned at 5:45 –
Head – 7 hrs –
Maint – yd fence – 1 hs
Mail & 1 hrs
Car mileage – 2 3/10 miles
[note in some other handwriting:]
Chopping wood is personal work – see Accounts Manual
[initials] DTA?
June 7 – 1925
Began work at 1:00 –
Did up some of the office work, read mail and filed it – Made trip schedule and got equip ready –
Left station at 3:00
Drove to Martinez Sheep coralls [sic] – Counted out 2 bands of sheep for the Hersch Merc Co –
Left coralls at 5:00
Drive to Pagosa, posted mail and got gas – got supper and left Pagosa at 7:30 - Drove out to sawmill arriving at 8:00 –
Head – 2 hrs
Grazing adm – 3 hrs
Mail & 1 hrs
Supper at Pagosa – 60 cents
Bridge R.S. to Pagosa 20 7/10
Pagosa to mill 7 5/10
June – 8 – 1925 –
Left mill at 7:00 – Returned at – 11:45 –
Left mill at 1:30
Returned at 5:30 –
Spent the day on the sale looking over lodes? of timber, running lines and general work of ? up work –
? cars in afternoon to go out on sale area – a distance of 2 1/10 miles –
Timber sales – 9 hrs
B-D-S – at mill $1.05
2 1/10 miles with car –
June 9 – 1925 –
Left mill at 7:00
Rode to Turkey Springs and then up to Chriss Mt. Rode upper part of Chriss Mt range – fee is good but water is scarce.
Development work on springs will be done next week –
Returned to mill at 3:30
Got car and drove to Martinez sheep coralls –
Counted out 2 more bands of sheep for Hersch Merc Co – Left coralls at 5:30 – Drove to Bridge R.S. arriving at 6:30 –
Grazing – 10 hrs –
B-D – at mill – 70 cents
Mill to Bridge via sheep pens 15 4/10 miles
June 10, 1925
Left station at 6:45 –
Drove to Sale area and scaled all logs in woods.
Finished at 8:30 – Spent on hour with men going over brush scattered? this week.
Returned to car at 9:30 found I had a flat tire – Put in a new tube – Left at 10:00
Drove to Jack Sullivans ranch below Dyke – arriving at 11:15 – Talked about spring development work on Chriss Mt – Drew up plans for work –
Left Sullivans at 1:30 –
Drove to Dyke and then to Sawmill on Devil Cr –
Ordered lumber for troughs – was there about 20 minutes –
Left mill at 3:00
Drove to Pagosa arriving about 4:15 –
Ordered pipe, nails and bolts for troughs and to carry water – Got mail, paid up bills – got some groceries and gas, left Pagosa at 5:30 –
arrived at station about 7:15 –
Grazing adm – 7 hrs
Timber Sales – 3 hrs
Mail S – 1 hrs –
Bridge to Sale area – 12 7/10
Sale area to Sullivans 15 6/10
Sullivans to S.W. Colo Tbr. Co mill on Devil Cr 6 miles –
S.W. Colo Tbr Co mill to Pagosa 16 1/10 mile –
Pagosa to Bridge – 20 7/10 miles
June 11, 1925
Began work at 8:00
Quit at 5:00 –
From 8:00 till 9:00 reading and filing mail –
9:00 till 11:00 rewriting form 4 and 72 for May.
11:00 12: writing Special use letters –
1:00 2:30 posting adm, grazing and fire handbooks and manuals –
2:30 3:30 adding up scale book and figuring on it
3:30 till 4:30 repairing tube and tightening up front running gear on car –
Began raining about 10:00 –
Cleared up at 3:30 – Raining again – at 4:30 –
wrote up diary
Special uses – 1 hrs
Timber Sales – 1 hrs
Maint P.O.E. – 1 hrs
Head – 5 hrs
June – 12- 1925
Left station at 7:30
Drove to Sec 36 tim sale area and marked till noon
ate lunch and worked till 1:30 – Left 1:30 Drove to Pagosa – arriving at 2:00
Posted mail, got four 4 forms and left Pagosa at 3:00 – Drove out to San Juan R.S. – Got centers and fuse at station.
Left about 3:30 or 3:45 and drove to Bridge R.S. – via Pagosa – arriving at 5:15 –
Timber Sales – 6 hrs
Mail S – 1 hrs
Const – Piedra Trail – 2 hs
Bridge R.S. to Sale – 11 9/10
Sale to San Juan R.S. – 14 5/10
San Juan R.S. to Bridge – R.S. – 26 5/10 –
June 13, 1925 –
Left at 8:00
Returned at 6:00
Rode up to Akers and Ludwigs – met Ludwig and Samuels, Rode part of Drift fire dist, looking over route and conditions governing proposed drift fence – Can see nothing against it.
Grazing – 9 hrs in f.
June 14, 1925 –
Sunday – worked 3 hrs in fore noon reading and filing mail and writing special use letter and one about nails –
Head – 3 hrs –
June 15, 1925 –
Left station at 7:40 –
Drove to Turkey Springs Counting Pens – Found Mercure & Kinderman sheep there – Counted them out –
Drove to station – arriving at 9:30 – worked on fence till 12:00 – and from 1:00 till 3:00 – Drove back up to Pens – counted out L. Larsen & Sons bunch and Drove back – to Bridge R.S. arriving at 6:00 –
Grazing – 5 hrs
Maint – Turkey Springs Pasture fence 4 hrs –
Bridge to Pens at Turkey – 12 5/10
Pens to Turkey R.S. 1 2/10
Turkey to Pens – 1 2/10
Pens to Bridge - 12 5/10
June 16, 1925
Left Bridge R.S. at 6:30 – Arrived Counting Pens at 7:30 – Counted out the Onofre Jaquez bunch and drove over to Turkey – Left Turkey at 9:30 – Drove to saw mill – got Bacon and tobaco [sic] for Parker and my self –
Scaled logs and left sale at 11:45
Drove to winter camp
got rest of groceries
left there – came on to Turkey – arriving at 12:45 –
Got dinner – Left at 1:30 drove out to pens – stayed there till 5:15
Counting sheep –
Returned to Turkey at 5:30 –
Timber Sales – 4 hrs –
Grazing – 5 hrs –
Bridge to Pens – 12.5
Pens to Turkey – 7 2/10
Turkey to mill and back – 16 5/10
Turkey to coralls and back 2 4/10
June 17 – 1925
Left station at 6:30 –
went up to Pens – no sheep there. Bunch did not come as expected – Returned at 7:15 – worked from 7:30 till 12:00 making out report on application for drift fence by Akers & Ludwig & Samuels – and writing letters about hot springs & Larsen hay sale – made out my allotment estimate –
Left Turkey at 12:45 –
Drove to Pagosa, got 13 gals of gas and gal of oil –
Posted and got mail –
Drove out to Martinez pens and counted 1 bunch of Herschs sheep – Drove on to Turkey arriving at 5:05 Left at 5:10 – walked up to pens – Counted ? and ? and Chavez sheep –
Returned to station at 6:35 – Got supper – worked till 7:30 on car broke a spring and tried to fix it so I can use it –
wrote up diary –
Grazing – 5
uses – 3
Unclass – 1
Mail & Supplies – 2
Maint – P.O.E- 1 hrs
From Turkey to Pagosa and return – 31 3/10
June 18, 1925 –
Began work work [sic] at 6:45 – went up to Pens no sheep in as expected.
Came back, telephoned to garage and mill – took car and left at 7:20 –
Drove to upper cutting area where Whitead is loging [sic]–
Scaled all logs skidded and marked till 9:45 –
Left area at 9:45 and drove to Pagosa arriving at 10:30 –
? all bush, bought 3 ? for front spring and put them in – Done at 1:30 – got dinner – Left Pagosa at 12:00 – arrived Martinez Pens – 12:30 – counted one band of Martinez sheep, drove on over to Martinez house, counted rest of sheep
Then drove to winter camp and phoned wife. no sheep at Turkey so drove to lower cutting area and scaled all logs decked? and drove back to winter camp and got sack of oats and drove on to station arriving at 5:00
Left 5:10 went up to pens, counted 2 bunches J.S. Rodriguez and Gibson sheep –
Returned to station at 6:30 –
Maint – P.O.E. 2 hrs
Timber Sales – 5 hrs
Grazing – 4 hrs
Turkey to Pagosa via upper sale area 16 7/10
Pagosa, winter camp 9 ½
winter camp to sale and back 2
winter camp to Turkey 6 4/10
Dinner at Pagosa – 85 cents
June 19, 1925
Began work at 6:15 went out to Pens. Counted the B.A. Rodriguez sheep –
Returned at 7:20 –
Got breakfast – Took car and left at 8:30 –
Drove up to Bridge R.S. arriving at 9:30. Caught 2 horses and saddled them – wife took them and I put pack saddle in car and a few things we needed and left at 10:20 – Drove to bottom of O’Neal Hill – wife took car on to Turkey and I rode horses on in arriving at 12:25 – Got dinner and left at 1:45 – went up to Pens Counted - Tio? Garcias sheep – Returned to station at 3:15 – worked on pasture fence till 5:00
Grazing – 7 hrs_
Pasture fence – 2 hrs
From Turkey to Bridge R.S. and return 25 3/10 miles –
June 20, 1925
Began work at 7:30 – went up to Pens and counted out 2 bunches of sheep - None of J.M. Chavez and J.T. Jacquez –
Returned to station at 9:15 –
Left at 9:30 drove over to Martinez coralls and conted out 442 head for Hersch Merc Co – and came back arriving at 11:20 –
Got dinner and it was raining until about 2:30 worked on fence from 2:45 till 6:00 –
Grazing – 4 hrs
Fence – 3 hrs
Unclass – 1 hr
Turkey to Martinez coralls and back – 15 miles
June 21 – 1925
Left station at 5:00 –
Back at 7:00 went up to pens – Found Nicholas Rodriguez bunch there in charge of Rafel Rodriguez.
He wanted to stop here with sheep for 3 or 4 days – told him no – He was sulky and was slow as possible – Got them on their way however – Got breakfast – Left at 9:30
Drove to Stevens Ranch – muddy so walked on Bridge R.S. arriving at about 11:00
Left Bridge at 11:40 – went back to Stevens – had dinner – Left at 1:30 went up to Park school house – to stock association meeting – met men? They had meeting and I left at 5:00 – went down to Stevens and then back to Turkey – Rained all the way back, got in at 6:15 – Ames called and I went up to Pens –
Saw man in charge of the Euguenio? Gallegos bunch and came back and called Ames – which took about an hour.
Grazing – 10 hrs
Turkey to Stevens, Stevens to school house and back and then to Turkey – 26? 8/10 miles
June 22, 1925
Left Station at 5:45 –
Returned 7:30
went to pens and conted [sic] Galegos [sic] bunch – Got breakfast – Left at 8:30 drove to J.T. Martinez ranch and counted his bunch –
Returned at 10:30 – Left at 10:31 – went up to pens – Conted the Munoz sheep – Returned at 12:30 – Got dinner –
Rained till about 4:00 – off and on – one real hard rain and lots of lightning
Left at 4:15 – Returned at 6:00 Conted J.M. Chaves bunch –
Grazing 8 hrs
From Turkey to J.T. Martinez ranch and return – 18 6/10 mls
June 23 – 1925
Began work at 7:00 Caught horse and saddled up – Left at 7:25 – Rode up on Chriss Mt. on general range inspection and also intent on seeing Laurence Snow about delinquent grazing fees – Did not locate his cabin or tent where he is cutting ties on patent land – was on the way back when I met Dyke. Looked over water development work and since it was noon came on home as I expected a band of sheep at the coralls at noon –
Returned at 1:10 –
Got dinner. worked on pasture fence from 2 till 5:00
Grazing – 6 hrs -
Pasture fence 3 hrs -
June 24 – 1925
Left station at 7:25 –
Drove over to upper cutting area on Johnson sale.
Scaled all logs decked?
Drove on to area near mill – Scaled till 11:00 –
Drove on to Pagosa by mill – Saw Johnson and gave him letter of transmittal and asked him to send in 8th payment this week as soon as possible –
Got mail, gasoline and groceries – Saw Dunning? and asked him if he could go over his special use pasture with me today –
Said he would about 4:00
went down and saw Mrs. Minium? about the C.L. Minium special use pasture – She said she could not use it and was willing for Whitead to have it.
Got dinner and left Pagosa at 1:10.
Drove out to Martinez coralls – Band of sheep there but did not count them as they go to Turkey coralls – Learned that Gomez at Dutton Cr was trying to locate me
Drove back – He wants to be conted on June 29. drove back up to Sale arriving at 2:15 – Scaled till 3:15 – Drove to Dunnigan ranch met Dunnigan went over pasture Found in my judgment it was not first class – Rain coming so I hurried home arriving at 4:50 –
Sales – 6 hrs – Dinner at Pagosa 60 cents
L.uses – 1 hrs
Mail & 1hrs
Grazing 1 hrs
From Turkey to Pagosa via mill plus return to upper cutting area and return from Pagosa to Turkey plus detours to sale area and winter camp SS? – 36 miles
June 25, 1925
Left station at 7:15 went out to sheep pens. Conte out 3 bands of sheep – 2 for Lopez and one for Sargent totaling 3607 –
Margarito Martinez came at 11:00 – no health certificate. Came to station called Pagosa and was told that Ames was not in town –
Held lunch up and spent time trying to locate Ames in ? and also see what was wrong –
Margarito had a certificate but claims it was made for his brothers sheep and not his – Rained till about 3 – spent an hour writing up diary and figuring up sheep conting slips –
Hauled wood ?? from 3 till 5:00 – 5:06 till 6:30 putting shoes on saddle horse in front –
Grazing – 7 hrs
Unclass – 2 hrs
Maint – P.O.E. 1 hr
June 26, 1925
Began work at 7:00 – went to pens – counted out 4900 head, Ames came and also inspector Manzanares of N.M.
Came back to station at 11:00 – wrote up diary and got dinner
Left station at 1:00 went out to pens – got bunch in of Quintana – and counted them –
Came back to station at 2:30 –
Got car ready and drove up to Bridge R.S. – arriving at 3:45 – met Parker and got trail crew time from him and went over trail work plans with him –
Left station at 5:00
Drove back to Turkey arriving at 6:00 –
Grazing – 6 hrs –
Unclass – 1 hr
Maint Piedra Canyon – 3 hrs
June 27, 1925
Left station at 6:00 – J.V. Quintana came last night – gave him the count in the band yesterday He was short – Put them in and conted again Got one more than first time – Conted second band for him – went to station at 8:00 – Got breakfast and left at 9:00 – went out since another bunch was supposed to be there – waited some time – walked back down trail – finally gave him up and went back to station arriving at 11:30 – Got dinner left at 2:00 drove on to Martinez coralls.
Conted one band for Serafin Gallegos, returned to Turkey pens at 4:30 Conted out band for Valdez and got to station at 6:15 –
Grazing 9 hrs
June 28, 1925
Worked from 7:00 till 4:00 Conted 2500 head of sheep – Pand ? Bros and Kinderman –
no other official work –
Grazing – 4 hrs –
June 29, 1925
Saw Whitead yesterday evening – Told me he saw some one in a car shooting at ducks in the Hatcher lake. He got the number of the car but the man got away in it – He wanted me to find out who he was and said he would like to put in a complaint –
Left station at 7:00 –
Drove to Martinez pens – Conted outed [sic] a band of sheep for J.R. Valdez – went on to Pagosa – found that W.J. Schoonover owned the car – went on up to San Juan station – Talked it over with Maloy – Asked his help and advise [sic] –
We went to Pagosa Looked up law and on to mill
Got Whitead and brought him to town – he swore out complaint and I served the warrant – went on to San Juan station – Got supper and met at court house at 8:00 – Defense claims he did shoot at lake but not at ducks and that he had a rifle and was trying out the shot of the bullets – Looks bad for our side – I will know better next time –
J.P. could not find penalty and held case over till tomorrow night –
Got home at 11:00 p.m.
Grazing 3 hrs
Fish & Game 7 hrs
June 30, 1925
Left station at 7:00
Returned at 9:15 –
Conted 4 bands of sheep belonging to Ortiz, Gomez and Sanchez
Got breakfast – Left at 10:00 Drove to Pagosa –
Met Stevens on way took key to conty Powder house back to County Clerk -
Got some milk and saw Parker and Webb ?
Got dinner – Drove out to Dutton Dr. Conted a band for J.C. Gomez –
went to sale area scaled till 4:00 drove home arriving at 5:00
Timber sales – 2 hr
Grazing - 5 hrs
Const – East fork trail – 1 hrs –
Whitead withdrew charge and case dropped –
San Juan National Forest daybooks, Pagosa Ranger District, 1925 July 1 – 31, 1925. Marilyn T. Brown, transcriber, January and August, 2004.
Diary of Glenn Dalton
for
July – 1925
July 1, 1925
Began work at 6:00 –
went out to counting pens and conted out Sargents sheep totaling 3475 head –
got back to Turkey at 9:15 –
Got breakfast, left station at 10:00 – Drove to Bridge R.S. – Got mail on way – Arrived bridge at 11:15 – worked from 11:20 till 7:00 with exception of an hour for lunch – making up, Service report, form 4 & and getting time report on vouchers in shape to mail.
Grazing – 4 hrs in f [field?]
Head – 7 hrs
July 2, 1925
Left Station at 7:30 –
Arrived Dutton Park at 8:45 – Conted out sheep belonging to Hersch Mer Co till 11:50 – Drove on to Pagosa.
Posted mail, got form 4, sworn to, got some grub and dinner, left at 1:20, Drove on out to Dutton Park, Conted out one bunch for Gomez and rest of Herschs sheep –
Finished about 3:00 Drove on to Turkey – no sheep there, loaded up the car, got supper – and left at 5:30 –
Rode horses back and wife brought the car – arrived Bridge at 8:00 –
Mail & Supplies – 2 hrs
Grazing – 10 hrs
July 3, 1925
Left station at 6:50 –
Drove to Dutton Park –
Conted out rest of Gomez sheep and returned to Sale area at 10:00 Marked and scaled till noon –
Got dinner at mill – Drove to Turkey – no sheep there nor sign of any – loaded rest of our grub and dishes in car and returned to Bridge at 3:30 –
no other work today –
Timber Sales – in –f 3 hrs
Grazing 5 hrs
July 4, 1925
Holiday
no work
July 5, 1925
Sunday
Began work at 7:45 –
Added up scale book and made cutting report on Johnson 6-30-24 sale –
This took till 11:00 Left at 11:00 Returned at 11:40 –
Drove up to mail box and got mail – Returned and had dinner –
Began work at 12:15-
Read mail filed all mail that I have answered or that does not require a report soon – This took till 3:30 –
Made out report to State on licenses sold – This took an hour –
From 4:30 till 5:00 bringing ? card box up to date and wrote up diary –
Timber Sales –(0) 3 hrs
Mail & 1 hrs
Head 4 hrs
Fish & Game 1 hrs
July 6, 1925
Began work at 7:30 –
worked till 12:00 getting counting slips ready for supervisor, putting slips in grazing cone forders? – etc.
12:00 Dinner – To work at 12:30 – worked till 2:00 same as fore noon –
2:00 3:00 making fire sign plan map –
3:00 till 5:30 general office work answering, o-fire, special use, grazing and other letters, got mail ready and addressed to different ones – wrote up diary and quit at 5:30 –
Grazing - 0 – 6 hrs
Fire Prevent – 1 hrs
Head – 3 hrs
July 7, 1925
Left station at 7:30 –
Drove to Pagosa, Posted mail. Got money order to pay for licenses sold, got hair cut – Paid up all bills and bought all the groceries I could haul – got dinner and left Pagosa at 1:30 – Drove into sale area on way but log cutters had not gotten back to work yet –
Came on home arriving at 3:30 – waited till 5:00 –
worked from 5:00 till 7:00 shoeing saddle horse –
The flies are so bad that one can’t do much with a horse until sundown or just before –
Mail & 6 hrs
Maint P.O.E. 2 hrs
July 8, 1925 –
Began work at 8:00
Packed up a load of powder, drills, hammers, etc., took them down to trail crew at Sand Cr. Bridge –
Looked over work done which so far consists of cutting timbers? for bridge and fitting? them – Saw that another man was needed on the job – also they need some more grub – Rode down trail about 1 ½ miles to look over reported damage to trail by rain – Found 5 or 6 bad washes or slides –
Returned to station at 4:00
Rode on up river to Jim Corrigans ranch to see him about working on trail – He was out fishing and I did not see him –
Came back at 6:00 –
Maint trail – Piedra Canyon – 9 hrs
July 9, 1925
Left station at 7:00
Drove up to John Webbs ranch – Got him and his kid – Brought to station –
Saddled up horses, packed up grub for trail crew and Webbs kid – took them down to camp at Weminuche Creek and came back arriving at 12:30 – Got dinner was getting ready to leave when it started raining about 1:30 – Thot [sic] it would quit soon but it kept it up till night and I knew it was useless to try to go in the car today –
afternoon just wasted.
Maint imp trail or Bridge – 6 hrs
July 10, 1925
Left station at 5:45 –
Drove to Coopers ranch just this side of Bayfield – Met Mr. Douglas Anderson, Loring, Hauser and Maloy –
Spent the day on range management conference –
went to Bayfield about 6:00 – Got supper –
From 8:00 till 11:00 range conference
Grazing adm – 14 hrs
Dinner Lorings – 50 cents
Supper Bayfield – 75 cents
July 11, 1925
Left Bayfield about 8:00 Drove to Nelsons ranch with our party – worked till noon together on range management plans – Left at 12:30
Drove to Coopers ranch
ate our lunch – Left at 1:30 – Drove to Turkey Springs R.S. – arriving at 5:00 – Conted band of sheep –
Came home arriving at 7:00
Grazing Investigation – 8 hrs
Grazing adm – 2 hrs
B – 75 cents
D – 50 cents
Bed - $1.00
July 12, 1925
Sunday no official work
July 13, 1925
Left station at 8:00
Drove to Sale area - Vic? was not there and no payment receipt either – Drove on to Pagosa arriving at 10:30 – Got mail – got nails, ?, axe handles and drift pins for Bridge work – Got dinner and left town at 12:30 – Drove back to mill – Saw Vic – Said payment was not ? till last Fri – Told him not to cut any more trees –
Marked about an ? and drove home arriving at 3:30 –
Caught saddle horse
Rode to trail camp – left drift pins and nails – told John Stevens? he was needed at home and came back at 6:30 –
Mail – I 1 hrs
Sale – 4 hrs
Maint trail or Bridge – 4 hrs
July 14, 1925
Began work at 7:00 –
Shoeing horses – worked on them till almost 10:00 –
Flies got so bad I spent till 2: in the office reading and filing maill[sic] – 2:00 till 4:00 finishing up 4:00 till 5:00 packing up – left about 5:15 was going to ride to Turkey Springs but met Samuels with a letter from Supervisor at Stevens Came back and unpacked –
Maint P.O.E. 5 hrs
Head 4 hrs
July 15, 1925
Left station at 8:00
Returned at 1:00 –
Rode up to where the proposed drift fence is to be built on Williams Creek to look at another way for it if possible so as to avoid crossing county road – And no practicable route – Horse was minus a shoe so I came back – worked from 2 till 5:00 making a copy of my timber sale progress map –
Grazing – 5 hrs
Sales – 3 hrs
July 16, 1925 –
Left station at 7:30 –
Rode to sale area, rode the west side that is not cut yet looking over timber and ground –
Arrived at mill at 11:30 – Scaled a few old top logs so Vic can get them out of the way -
Left mill at 1:30 –
Rode to west side of sale and marked till 4:00 Rode on to Turkey arriving at 5:00 –
Timber Sales – 6 hrs
Grazing – 2 hrs
[note in someone else’s handwriting]:
(No indication in diary that charge should be made to "Grazing"
Always support charges by proper explanation)
July 17, 1925
Left Turkey at -7:30 –
Rode over park of Chriss Mt range – Rode to S.W- corner of Mt – Located Laurence Snow – Took up the matter of delinquent grazing fees with him – in a few words he told me that due to sickness in his family that he had been unable to raise money to meet even all his doctor bills – He ? promised to do his best to get the grazing fees paid by Aug -1-
Rode on and inspected the f22 Sales of Snow and also Fulmer? – Found them getting the logs out and part of the brush scattered – Rode on down to mill on devil Dr. Got dinner – waited there till 1:30 for Loring but he did not come so I rode up Devil Cr. to the Driveway and back to Turkey arriving at 5:15 –
f22 – Sales – 2 hrs
Grazing – 6 hrs
July 18, 1925
Left Turkey at 7:40
Began work at 7:00 packing up – Rode to Sale area and mill – Scaled logs till 12,
Rode home arriving at Bridge at 3:00 – worked from 3:30 till 5:00 oiling of car and pumping up tires –
Timber Sales – 6 hrs
Grazing – 2 hrs
Maint – P.O.E. 1 hrs
July 19, 1925
Sunday – no official work –
July 20, 1925 –
Began work at 7:30 –
Saddled up and rode to trail camp on Weminuche Cr – Parker and I packed camp and equip and took it here to Station –
Left at 1:00 Rode up to falls on East Fork and hunted trail route till 5:00 Rode back arriving at 7:00
Reconst Bridge – 5
(4 of above in f)
Const – East Fork trail – 6 hrs
July 21, 1925
Left station at 7:00
Arrived at mill about 8:00 waited there for Mr. Anderson until about 9:00 – He walked in and told me he had broken his car about 3 miles below.
Took my car and went to end of lane below mill – There were 2 or 3 wagon loads of timber stuck in the road and no chance to pass –
Returned and drove out to Conty road and then to forks of Conty and mill road –
Tried to pull his car up the hill but could not – went on into Pagosa – Got garage to send car for it and we went back out – They pulled it in – I loaded Mr. Andersons belongings in my car and went on up – Got dinner and brought Mr. Anderson back to mill – Spent the rest of the afternoon going over south half of east side of sale where the timber is not cut – marked a few trees on the S. Sec – and came home arriving at 7:30 –
Timber Sales – 6 hrs
Unclass – 5 hrs
Dinner at Pagosa 50 cents
July 22, 1925
Left station at 8:00
Rode up to Stevens, picked up load of grub for trail crew – Rode up to trail camp – Got dinner spent rest of day until 5:00 with Anderson, Parker and Stevens hunting trail route or rather inspecting proposed route – Spent an hour fishing – Left trail camp at 6:00 –
Arrived station at 7:45 –
Imp Const – 10 hrs
in – f
July 23, 1925 –
Left station at 8:15 – Drove to sale area and Mr. Anderson and I scaled some logs –
Then located a 40 of Gov. timber but it had been cut under the old sale contract –
Collected some 10 plants?
Drove to Pagosa, got dinner, got mail and some supplies – Anderson got his car which was fixed . Returned to sale area – south of mill – went over Gov. timber there – Drove up to mill – Scaled logs –
Drove to upper end of sale area scaled and marked, drove on home arriving at 6:30 –
Timber Sales – 7 hrs
Mail & - 2 hrs
July 24, 1925
Began work at 8:00
Got equipment ready and drove up to Toners –
Met Archie Toner –
Drove almost to the isolated Gov 40 in Toners Place – adjusted for corner – Finally drove to a private 40 which is offered in exchange and Mr. Anderson and myself cruised the timber on it –
Got a lunch at Toners and cruised the Gov – 40 – Got back to station at about 5:00
Land Exchange (f) 8 hrs
July 25, 1925
Left station 7:45
Drove to upper end of Seibels ranch – Looked over timber on east side of their ranch – Drove on to sale area – Scaled logs – went on to mill and scaled – Got dinner, scaled a few more – Anderson took board tally on 2 large logs – went up to School Sec. 36 and ran some lines – Marked and scaled and came home arriving at 6:30 –
Timber Sales – 10 hrs –
July 26, 1925
Sunday – No official work except I made free use permits to Jones and Stevens
Free use – 2 hrs
July 27, 1925
Began work at 6:00 –
Saddled horses and got equip together – Anderson and I left station at about 6:20 or :25 –
Rode up to trail camp – tied horses and went up Piedra River on foot to look over route for new trail –
Found that the const of a trail would be so difficult that the cost would be prohibitive and that the only possible route in places was in the narrow river bed –
We came to the conclusion that we would go no further on our own initiative and upon returning to camp at 6 we called off the trail crew and I made arrangements to have the camp moved to station tomorrow –
Saddled horses and returned to station at 8:10 –
Const East Fork Piedra trail – 13 hrs
July 28, 1925
Worked from 8:00 till 5:00 at station – The forenoon was spent about half and half going over the Toner land exchange and making up notes on a cutting plan for the Vic Johnson sale –
Spent the afternoon adding up scale book, making letter of transmittal and filing mail till Webb and Parker came with camp at 3:40 –
Helped them unload –
Then posted adm handbook and fiscal regulations
July 28 – con-
Timber Sales – 4 hrs
Land exchange 2 hrs
Head 2 hr
July 29, 1925
From 8:00 till 11:30 in office and at station –
Made Seed Crop report,
Some time spent with Anderson going over questionable points in Diaries and work plan
Got time for men from Dick Parker and made copies
Got equip ready for trip to sale and had dinner at 11:30
Left station about 12:30
Drove to sale area Scaled logs in woods, marked for a while – Drove to mill
Gave Vic Johnson letter of transmittal for ninth payment and scaled logs at mill
Drove back to cutting area and marked till 5:45 –
Drove to Pagosa – arriving at 6:10 or 6:15 – By luck I got in Herschs and got a pair of badly needed shoes – posted mail and got mail – Left Parkers bed and clothes at Dutton’s feed stable –
Met Anderson, got supplies, went to picture show and left Pagosa at 10, arriving station at 11:45 –
(a little over 2 ½ hrs of field time not official work) and not charged
Head 3 hrs
Const Piedra trail 1 hrs
Timber Sales – 7 hrs
Mail & 1 hrs
July 30, 1925
Worked from 8:00 till 12:00 at the station, writing up diary for past day making trip schedule and getting pack out fit in shape and grub and equip packed – Had dinner and Packed up leaving station at about 1:30 or 2:00 –
Rode up to Cimarrona Station – Looked over work on drift fence near Williams Cr – and got numbers of posts, poles etc- for free use to special use permittees –
went around the Cimarrona pasture fence to see if it would hold horses –
Found all the ? at the Cimarrona
Grazing 9 hrs –
(4 of above in field)
July 31, 1925 –
Left Cimarrona Station at 8:00 – Rode up Williams Cr trail – Stopped for dinner at last forks of Cr, Packed up again and followed trail up through west fork – then followed Continental Divide around to the head of the east fork or prong and rode ? back down the creek to a camping place – about 7:00 -
Grazing – 7 hrs
Maint trail (Williams Cr.) – 3 hr
This inventory was prepared by Todd
Ellison, last edited August 31, 2004.
Transcription was done by Marilyn Brown,
volunteer, concluding in August of 2004.
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