Diary, 1917 July 1-August 31, 1917 October

File — Box: 3, Volume: 1

Identifier: II

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Woodbury spent most of the summer at the Ranger Station in the forest, returning to Oak City to do office work. He surveyed the line for the Fillmore Watershed fence and examined the range in order to plan for its better utilization. He continued his meetings with the stockmen and had several conflicts over trespassing stock. For entries during September see Bx 2, Bk 23. In October Woodbury began preparation of the annual grazing report and on October 17 visited the Ogden office to discuss the grazing problems in his district. During the last week of October Woodbury undertook a survey of the forest boundary.

3 July. Woodbury "prepared a voucher for telephone service for Peoples Tel. Co. and took it to John C. Lovell for signature."
6 July. "Began preparation of outline and material to be presented to the Advisory Board of the Oak Cr. Division tomorrow. Prepared an application for them for official recognition."
11 July. "Went out with the bunch of advisory boards and Forest Officers. Meeting was held on Jack's Peak to decide on division lines. After the division had been agreed on between the Pioneer and Fillmore, Trimble and I went with the Pioneer Advisory Board along the line from Jacks Peak to the head of Reece Canyon."
11 July. Raphael and Woodbury looked over the dam site of Dry Lake Reservoir, which had recently broken. Ben Kenney of the Holden Advisory Board helped the rangers repair the dam.
18 July. Woodbury investigated the site of a sheep camp. "I looked over the bed ground & adjoining range and found it much tramped." He left a note for the herders concerning the tramping.
20 July. "I talked with James A. Stephenson about progressive policies in handling stock. He is one of the young leaders in the community and I had a special design in talking to him. He seems to grasp ideas that you can't get some other people to entertain. In the evening Woodbury met with the advisory board which he found to be "a pretty hard headed set. Can't get much out of them unless you use stiff measures. Not quite ready for that yet. That is not until I exhaust the most peaceful methods."
23 July. "Telephoned Fillmore this morning to find out my military registration number. Lost an hour waiting on the phone."
25 July. Woodbury rode along the proposed line for the Leamington pipe line. He met John D. Evans "up there and talked over the conditions of the permit and the comtemplated work."
28 July. "Heavy storm today brought terrific floods down into the reservoir and washed out our temporary dam [at Dry Lake]. A stream 12 or 15 feet wide and from 1 to 2 feet deep poured out of the reservoir. I went down to the dam to see if I could help matters, but no use."
6 August. "Trimble left after noon for Fillmore for examination tomorrow under the draft."
20 August. At a meeting in Scipio the stockmen voted to cooperate with the Forest Service and Fillmore in fencing between the Pioneer & Chalk Cr. divisions."
21 August. Woodbury found fourteen head of Will Brown's horses at Mud Spring. He drove them back to Scipio but was stopped by Brown. "Will Brown met me in the road and tried to stop the horses until he saw who it was driving them. Then we had a big conflab, after which I went and telephoned the supervisor for instructions as to what to do with them. We finally decided to let him have the horses on condition that he would take care of them. He took them with that understanding but was not satisfied that my position in requiring them kept off the Oak Creek division would be supported by the Supvisor or District Office."
22 August. The argument with Will Brown over horses continued. "When I insisted that the only way to settle it was to take care of them, he wanted further information from some one else and I explained the appeals proposition to him and he decided to appeal it." Woodbury then rode up to Memmott's ranch and "talked with them for an hour or two about unpermitted horses in the vicinity, the way they are treated by the sheep that trail over the driveway and other items of interest. I suggested that they make record of evidence when sheepmen willfully disregard the rules." In the evening Woodbury met with Peter Gronning and Maroni Monroe of the Oak Creek Advisory Board.
3 October. "In the evening, I held an informal grazing meeting with Wm. Lorenzo and Collier Livell."
10 October. Woodbury began work on the annual grazing report. "Started to work planning its arrangement and found that the regular outline did not fit well the conditions here nor was it well calssified. I worked out a more systematized outline to follow."

Dates

1917 July 1-August 31
1917 October

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