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recommendation of Forest Inspector Sydney Moore 

 from the Denver inspection office, who had checked 

 my work on a timber sale, I was transferred to the 

 Medicine Bow( Colorado) National Forest with headquar 

 ters at Port Collins, Colorado, and promoted to &quot;be 

 a deputy forest supervisor. 



Medicine Bow National Forest (Colorado) 



Almost immediately after my arrival at Fort 

 Collins, Supervisor H. II. Wheeler was detailed to 

 Washington for several months and I was left in 

 charge. As I say, those were the days of rapid 

 promotions and assignments of heavier responsibilities 

 in rapid order. For example, Arthur Ringland was 

 made district forester when less than twenty-seven 

 years old. None of his staff was over thirty. 



Evidently I didn t disgrace myself running the 

 Medicine Bow, for upon Wheeler s return in the 



spring of 1909, I was transferred to the Denver 

 office as an inspector. Meanwhile the old inspection 

 districts had been converted into national forest 

 districts, (now called regions) and Denver was the 

 headquarters for a territory including Colorado, 



