district to avoid friction. 



If we net the high wost sice ran-os for sheep it 

 will materially decrease the cost of adnini strati on per 

 head for the reason that this will incraace the carrying 

 capacity of the Siorra part of the forest while the work of 

 administering will not "be greatly increased* All three of 

 the district men now have to ro across the sumnit to look 

 after cattle and horses in the country surrounded "by what 

 would then "be sheep range. In other words, whore it now 

 t alias the Eanger five or sis: days to cover a cattle range 

 across the summit ho could cover the sheep ran^e there in 

 one or at most two days additional. 



Asida from this I loiow of no way in which the cost 

 of administering grazing on the Inyo can "be materially re- 

 ducod, if the wor?: is properly done. If we had trails so 

 we cotild get frou one ran^e to another without "baclr-t racking 

 and c] iinbin a nilo or more in elevation, a Ranker could 

 handle one-third more ter:.itory, "but so long as the Inyo 

 has 0500 per year for improvement \7orl: it will "be many years 

 "before we can coxmt on much "benefit from that source, as 



$500 doos not go far o*ver those roc.: cliffs. 



, ? 



Discussion, in which the Supervisors made a 

 point of the great amount of time spent 

 in M.9 worl:, and referred to Sheet 7f; 



Headley said they shouldnH let the dif- 

 ferences in conditions "blind them to the 

 wide discrepancy in costs which can not 



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