In Alaska the Winter is the season for travel 

 and the conditions are similar in the Sierraville-Truc^ee 

 District. 



I''ive sleigh dogs an<? two men can transport five 

 hundred pounds practically anywhere on this District. 

 Seventy-five pounds of dry food would lest five doge two 

 weeks. To supply c large oemp, nine dogs is the idecl 

 term. The dog food should be prepered durin<r the summer, 

 when Jersey can be made from antiquated bulls and horses, a 

 cheap rnd plentiful supply. If this is ground and bal:ed in 

 corn-raeel breed until rulte free from moleibtlre, it V.-111 

 form the entire supply for the team. Tho sleigh dogs live 

 on less than c pound of drietf food per day, so that the rel~ht 

 is but a snr.ll proportion of the load they ecu heul. T'-jic" 

 is the great advantage of elei-rh dogs over other enimele if 

 far from the base of supplies, when provisions must be ccr- 

 ried for both team e.nd crivers. 



SIL7ICULTURE 



Township maps on the socle of two inches to the 

 mile have been made for six tovmships from the section maps 

 obtained by the reconnaissance pcrty in the field 1 Ir.st Jum- 

 mor. "Jor': is progressing on a larrre map of the Truolcee 

 Block on the scale of one inch to the mile. 



Winter reconnaissance commonced in the Challenge 

 3t on December 9 and \ve carried on by Lumberman 

 aae Ass latent Ranker Sleason until Merch 5, when i'.r. 

 loft to take up some work on the oierrc. Forest 

 itant .dills worked <-ith the pcrty for a week in December 

 la now Lth Assistant P.enger Jlorson completing the "ork 

 the block of forest lend near 7or jesto-n. 



The Tahoe is one of the eirht Forests in the 

 lot vrhere reconnaissance rork -ill be concentrated this 



Dn : /c he ^^y " 7l11 ons let of c Forest Asslstcnt, 



ta'ont) A^cietcnts me a Cook. It is planned to 



