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structions as prescribed by a general 

 circular dated May 12,1 899. They make 

 monthly reports of daily service ren- 

 dered, which reports are examined by 

 the supervisors and superintendents and 

 are then forwarded by the superintend- 

 ents to the United States General Land 

 Office. 



A ranger must provide himself with 

 horse and equipment, while the Govern- 

 ment furnishes him with the various im- 

 plements necessary to open trails in the 

 dense forest, to construct fire barriers 

 and to extinguish and surround fires. 

 Each ranger is provided with a nickel 

 badge, which is worn as an evidence of 

 his official authority. 



The official titles of the reserves and 

 the men in charge of them are as follows : 



Arizona and New Mexico. 



The superintendent of the six reserves 

 in Arizona and New Mexico is W. H. 

 Buntain, of Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

 These reserves have an aggregate area 

 of 7,234,080 acres, consisting of, in Ari- 

 zona, Grand Canon, 1,851,520 acres; 

 San Francisco Mountains, 975,360 acres ; 

 Black Mesa, 1,658,880 acres, and Pres- 

 cott, 10,240 acres; in New Mexico, 

 Pecos River, 411,040 acres ; Gila River 

 2,327,040 acres. 



This district is divided into six super- 

 visors' districts, with Fred. S. Breen, of 

 Flagstaff, Arizona, as Supervisor of the 

 Francisco Mountains Reserves ; *W. P. 

 Hermann, Flagstaff, Arizona, Supervisor 

 of the Grand Canon; Mathew H. Rowe, 

 Showlow, Arizona, Supervisor of the 

 Black Mesa; W. H. Thayer, Prescott, 

 Arizona, Supervisor of the Prescott; 

 J. B. Wilhoit, Pecos River, New Mexico, 

 Supervisor of the Pecos River Reserve, 

 and Albert S. Gsterman, Silver City, 

 New Mexico, Supervisor of the Gila 

 River Reserve. 



Twenty-eight rangers were assigned 

 to this district in May for immediate 



[Since the preparation of this article the 

 death of Supervisor Hermann has been re- 

 ported to the General Land Office. His former 

 district has been placed temporarily under the 

 direction of Supervisor Breen. Ed.] 



duty, and, on July 15, nine additional 

 for the Arizona Reserves and five addi- 

 tional for the New Mexico Reserves, 

 making the total force of rangers for the 

 Superintendent's district forty-two. 



The twenty-eight first assigned were 

 distributed as follows: Grand Canon 

 Reserve, 5; Prescott Reserve, none (the 

 Supervisor acting as Ranger) ; San Fran- 

 cisco Mountains, 8; Pecos River, 5, and 

 Gila River, 5. The fourteen additional 

 rangers were appointed as rangers-at- 

 large, being assigned from time to time 

 to such reserves as the Superintendent 

 sees fit. 



Northern California. 



The Superintendent of the three re- 

 serves in Northern California is Charles 

 S. Newhall, of Fresno, Cal. These re- 

 serves contain an aggregate area of 

 4,923,535 acres, and consist of the Stanis- 

 laus Forest Reserve, 691,200 acres; 

 Sierra Forest Reserve, 4,096,000 acres; 

 and the Lake Tahoe Reserve, 136,335 

 acres. 



There are four supervisors' districts, 

 with W. C. Bartlett, Tallac, Cal., as 

 Supervisor of the Lake Tahoe Reserve, 

 having also the general supervision of 

 the Stanislaus, of which last-named Re- 

 serve George Langenberg is the Super- 

 visor in immediate charge, reporting to 

 Mr. Bartlett, J. W. Dobson, Raymond, 

 Cal., Supervisor of the Northern Divi- 

 sion of the Sierra Reserve, and Harrison 

 White, Visalia, Cal., Supervisor of the 

 Southern Division of the Sierra Reserve. 



Twenty-six rangers were first author- 

 ized, and 8 additional, on duty at large, 

 for assignment to duty on July 15. 

 Of those for immediate duty there were 

 assigned to the Stanislaus 4, and to the 

 Sierra Reserve 22. 



Southern California. 



The Superintendent of the five South- 

 ern California reserves is B. F. Allen, of 

 Los Angeles, Cal. These reserves con- 

 tain an aggregate area of 3,784,594 

 acres, consisting of the Pine Mountain 

 and Zaca Lake Reserve, with an area of 

 1,644,594 acres; San Bernardino, 737,- 



