Diary, 1918 June 1-July 31, 1918 November 1-December 31

File — Box: 3, Volume: 5

Identifier: II

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Woodbury remained at the Belknap Ranger Station during June and July occupied with routine duties including repairs at the station, office work and the sale of timber. He also continued his attemps to enforce sanitary conditions in the mining camps and stocked several streams with fish. On June 30 John Raphael offered Woodbury an administrative job in Richfield. Although there is no further mention of the job Woodbury did relocate to Richfield at the end of July. His work at the office in Richfield through November and December was routine (often listed in the diary simply as "routine work"), including the preparation of the annual grazing report and mailing grazing applications, Woodbury notes that the office secretary and the supervisor's wife "took down with the flu."

6 June. "At the mouth of [Cottonwood] Canyon I looked over the camp site of some of the Florence ore haulers and discussed the situation with them. Then I rode up to the Deer Trail Mine. I talked to Mr. McCaskell about the cyanide water menace to the stock. We looked over the situation and discussed means of remedying the situation."
14 June. "I sold a couple of fish licenses and took a pledge to the War Saving Stamp campaign."
30 June. "Supervisor Raphael and family came up to visit and we talked over considerable Forest Service business. He offered me (tentatively) a position as an administrative assistant in the Richfield office."
24 July. Woodbury "went to see Smith and Norton, ore haulers that had camped on the forest about cleaning up the camp site... Went to the office of the Florence Mining & Milling Co. and discussed sanitation of their camps..."
27 July. Raphael and Woodbury "went out with several cattle and sheep men to James sheep camp on the SW slope of Tip-top and held a meeting on the grazing allotment business."
1 November. "At noon I got a bunch of the circular letters from the printer and began preparing the grazing applications for mailing. Got out about 300."
25 November. "Miss Williams arrived this morning from Ogden to help us temporarily while Miss Baker is sick." Miss Baker had been ill since the 11th of November.
2-4 December. "Raphael is at home with sick wife."

Dates

1918 June 1-July 31
1918 November 1-December 31

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