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course, we shall need small forest units intensively administered. 

 We must wait, though, for business to justify this. Obviously, if 

 I make my ideas of forest administration stick, there should be 

 changes in the District office organization. In brief, the changes 

 I have in mind would be the elimination of much of the Forest 

 work now of necessity carried on in this office. The Supervisors 

 with their staffs should be able to handle practically all such 

 executive work as we are now handling. The effect would be a 

 small staff in here engaged in inspection of the work as executed 

 in the field and in the development and shaping of administrative 

 policies." 



This consolidation if applied to District 3 means the elimina- 

 tion of six units by contracting sixteen administrative units into 

 ten. 



Let us consider one of these consolidations (Santa Fe-Carson) 

 in detail^ ; on paper it seems logical and progressive. 



The total gross area of these forests will amount after the 

 consolidation to 2,426,670 acres, with an unusually long boundary 

 of 1,005 miles, due chiefly to the indentations of private land 

 grants within forest areas, yet the units are homogeneous and, 

 notwithstanding the high mountains, the travel by valley routes 

 is usually practicable. There is an eight months field season. 

 A field telephone system is practically completed and the Carson 

 can be connected to the proposed headquarters at Santa Fe by 

 the construction of a few miles additional telephone. The look- 

 out points will be conveniently located with respect to Santa Fe 

 and the shipping and travel will be as easy or better than from 

 Taos, the present headquarters of the Carson. The population 

 is conveniently located with respect to Santa Fe, which is the 

 capital of the State. 



Extensive land classification is well along, but very restricted 

 grazing reconnaissance has been undertaken. The boundaries of 

 the various divisions are well established and suitable. Other 

 routine work is pretty well lined out. Extensive timber reconnais- 

 sance has been collected for all forests, except the Taos division 

 of the Carson. 



The salary roll at present for the Carson and Santa Fe, ad- 

 ministered separately, totals $41,745. After the combination, the 

 total expenditures are estimated at $39,565. This second figure 



^Based on data compiled by A. C. Ringland and D. P. Johnson ; pre- 

 sented to the Soc. Am. Por., Albuquerque Branch. 



