Diary, 1917 December, 1918 March-April

File — Box: 3, Volume: 3

Identifier: II

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The diary entries for December 1917 concern Woodbury's move to the Marysvale district. He was unable to find a suitable home and office in Marysvale so he rented one in Richfield. He spent most of his time getting acquainted with the range and the local residents. One of his first duties was to investigate the case of a man living within the forest boundary. During March and April Woodbury continued his meetings with the stock association and investigated the special use permits for local mines and for the Beaver River Power Company. In late April, he moved to the Belknap Ranger Station.

21 December. "This morning I drove up to Allunite and then up to the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon to see if Mr. Nay had vacated [his home]. A young lady, apparently his daughter was there and there was evidence of habitation in and around the buildings."
7 March. "This morning, I wrote a letter for supervisor's signature to the District Forester asking for an interpretation of the provisions in the manual outlining purpose for which special uses may be issued.
10 March. At a stockmen's meeting in Joseph the Advisory Board "levied an assessment for salting and herding."
11 March. At a similar meeting in Marysvale "the board met with me and we discussed the provisions of the constitution and the method of handling funds of the association. The board levied an assessment of 156 per head for salting and looking after cattle."
13 March. Woodbury and Mr. Young, the engineer for the Florence Mining & Milling Co., went to the Log Cabin mine. The snow was very heavy and they had a difficult time getting there. "Our horses stopped when we were in sight of camp and refused to go any farther until I got a willow after them. Then they wallowed into camp. We were so near all in ourselves that we could hardly carry our coats and other luggage up to the house."
15 March. "Was interrupted [from office work] to discuss with Mr. Ross, the reasons for disapproval of his wife's grazing application on account of inheritance from the Mackay estate."
20 March. "I began looking over the water-power cases. First, I took the oldest case and assorted the bulky correspondence chronologically. Then I began studying the correspondence from the beginning concerning the Beaver River Power Co."
22 March. "Wrote a long letter to the District Forester concerning the water power situation on the Forest under an L-uses designation, covering 4 phases of the situation, namely 1. relation of accessory special uses to water power permits, 2. basis of special use settlement for trespass in connection with power settlement, 3. status of timber settlement and 4. methods of filing the water power material."
29 March. "This morning Mr. Cullen of the Florence Mining & Milling Co. called and I discussed with him the conditions surrounding the issuance of special use permit for their proposed smelter."
13 April. At the Belnap Ranger Station Woodbury "gathered up the old cans, bottles and pieces of glass scattered about the yard around the house and buried them. Things around here need an awful lot of cleaning and straightening up."
15 April. "Went to see Sam Utley to see what the association plans were for salting & herding. He told me that they had employed Harry Baierline for herder. But very few people were turning stock out in view of the backward condition of the range."
17 April. "My attention was called to water coming from the Deer Trail works containing cyanide very dangerous to stock."
18 April. "I went over to the north side of the creek [not named] to a newly established are camp to ask them to move. I found A Smith and Elmer Norton there. We discussed the situation thoroughly and tried to find a suitable camp ground below the intake of the Alunite water supply but were unsuccessful. Temporarily until something was decided in the matter, they agreed to keep the camp clean."

Dates

1917 December
1918 March-April

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