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we maintained at Centennial on the east side of the 

 forest. 



Back t Denver 



In February 1913 I was re- transferred to Denver 

 and made Assistant District Forester in charge of 

 what was then called the Office of Silviculture, now 

 known as Timber Management. I succeeded Sydney 

 Moore, who resigned to enter private work. This was 

 the second good turn Moore did me, the first being 

 his recommendation of me for the position of deputy 

 forest supervisor at Fort Collins in 1908. 



Aside from the Medicine Bow (Wyoming) and the 

 Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming, there had not pre 

 viously been any very large timber sales in District 

 Two. At the time of my arrival in Denver, negotiations 

 were well along for a big sale in the Black Hills 

 National Forest in South Dakota. This was a rail 

 road type operation, and I believe there were no 

 others of that kind on any other national forest in 

 District Two. 



As I recall it, this Black Hills sale was my 

 first encounter with the timber appraisal methods 



