Diary, 1918 May, 1918 August-October

File — Box: 3, Volume: 4

Identifier: II

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

May was the opening of grazing season and Woodbury worked with the new herder to count cattle, to move stock on to the lower range and to remove unpermitted herds. Woodbury also continued his repairs on the Belknap Ranger Station which had fallen into disrepair. For June and July entries see Bk 5. During July Woodbury had been promoted to an administrative position at the Richfield office. On August 3 he left the Belknap Ranger Station and relocated in Richfield. Ranger Bowers took over the duties at Belknap. Woodbury's primary administrative responsibility was Forest Service property. He did, however, perform a great variety of duties in the office, including the preparation of special use and grazing reports and handling requests for information from Forest users. Although he spent most of his time in the office Woodbury did travel about the forest to investigate cases, or to prepare inventories of property at the various ranger stations. From September 26-31 he measured timber along the proposed transmission line from the Power Company Dam.

1 May. Woodbury spoke to Jack Pierson concerning the cyanide leaking from the Deer Trail works.
5 May. Woodbury drove to Richfield "where I had a conference with supervisor Raphael and [Assistant District Forester C. N.] Woods on the proposed bdy. changes."
20 May. "I spent the day in irrigating and repairing ditches [at the Belknap Ranger Station]. Irrigated the lawn & garden around the house and cleaned out some of the worst parts of the weed choked laterals. Also turned the water around to the lucerne patch [and] stopped a number of gopher holes, etc."
29 May. William Dunn and Sam Utley of the advisory board rode over the range with Woodbury. "We found in our riding that since the herder took sick about ten days ago that the cattle had scattered all over the high range and that the substitute herder had not done much. The advisory board members thought that it would not be wise to attempt to move the stock now that they were so badly scattered. I insisted that it was too early to have stock on the high range now. As a final conclusion, we decided that the herder should concentrate his efforts on the young stock and train them as much as possible and let the old habituated stock remain."
5 August. While riding, Woodbury found a fire in Picnic Canyon. "We worked with it about 2 or 3 hours until we had it practically under control."
12 August. Woodbury "looked up some information concerning the route of the proposed transmission line to Sulphurdale."
14 August. Work in the office was "interrupted by a telegram from District Forester with instructions to file an appeal from local draft board in case of David A. Arrivee, so I looked up correspondence in the matter and went to the clerk's office and filed the appeal." The next day Woodbury received a telegram asking him to withdraw the appeal.
20 August. "About 4:30 we all went over to C. N. Stillman's farm to see his exhibit of pure bred sheep."
3 September. "This morning, I drove over to Hepler's Fish Hatchery and got a couple of cans of fish and drove up to Sevier where met Bowers. Then we went on up to Marysvale [and]...drove up Bullion Canyon with the auto and placed them in the creek below the falls."
9-14 September. "Annual leave. In St. George. Visited Zion Canyon, Virgin oil well, Hurricane on the 10th. Took in Fruit Festival on 11, 12 and 13."
1-2 October. Woodbury visited the Log Cabin Mine to gather information for the Florence Mining & Milling Company's smelter permit.
3 October. "On the way [from the Log Cabin Mine to Marysvale] we looked over the sanitary conditions at the different camps. At the mouth of the canyon, we found some one had been camping near the intake of the Deer Trail pipe line now being installed."
4 October. "Inquired [at Marysvale] who camped at mouth of Cottonwood canyon and found it was teamsters hauling for Swift & Co. Went to see Gardner & Briggs of Swift & Co. about their teamsters camping on the creek. Then went to Florence M & M Co. office and discussed timber, fuel & sanitary conditions with Messrs [Jacob W. ] Young & Fitzpatrick."
11 October. "Had conference with Raphael & Waters about the clearing of the right-of-way [for] the Power Co. transmission line."
13 October. "No service, officially. Bowers, Raphael & I dug potatoes [at the Belknap Ranger Station]."
16 October. Woodbury "wrote letters to Utah State Board of Health & Jacob W. Young [concerning sanitary conditions at the mining camps]."

Dates

1918 May
1918 August-October

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