Diary, 1911 April 1-June 30

File — Box: 2, Volume: 8

Identifier: II

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

During April and May Woodbury was busy with improvements at the Ranger Station, including the construction of a pasture fence. He also patrolled for unpermitted stock and helped to prepare a trespass case against John Pulsipher. From May 21 to June 22 Woodbury supervised the annual spring roundup. At the conclusion of the cattle drive Woodbury left Enterprise for St. George in order to prepare for an extended surveying trip.
2 April. While patrolling the range near Enterprise Woodbury found "A good many cattle...beginning to drift on to the Forest. The greater part of the cattle that I saw belong to Wm. Truman, Walter Bowler and Orson & Emery Huntsman. We saw 4 head that belonged to John Pulsipher, whom Ranger Benson is working up a trespass case against."
27 April. "... I went to Enterprise and got a statement from Luther M. Terry regarding trespass of cattle of John Pulsipher for Benson."
28 April. "George Woodbury offered a proposition that if the Forest Service would furnish 1/3 of the expenses for piping the water to his ditch, he would give 1/5 interest in the water."
30 April. "Ranger Benson arrived here tonight from Diamond Valley to gather evidence in the case of trespass of John M. Pulsipher."
1 May. Woodbury helped Benson in his investigation by taking statements from Luther M. Terry, Jos. Terry, Amos Hunt and Emery Huntsman.
2 May. The two rangers rode to Hebron to gather evidence in the Pulsipher case.
9 May. "I gathered three specimens each of three different specie of plants and put them in to press."
10 May. Woodbury visited Holt's sheep herd because he suspected they were trespassing. When he located the herd they were in fact over the boundary line. The herder, Carl Emmett, had mistakenly judged where the line was. "I did not think it worth while or proper to make a trespass case out of it as I believe he did it innocently and will not do it again."
8 June. In describing the spring round-up Woodbury wrote. "On this drive, I chose my rides in such a way that...I could watch the progress of the drive and also make observations...of the cattle and the methods of handling." Woodbury concluded that "the drive was not handled very systematically," and that many cattle were left on the range.

Dates

1911 April 1-June 30

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