cerriod en this season - therefore the construction ore* 

 will be at our comand if v.o should need them - otherwise 

 we .voul<? have to c'erend on r^trolaon only, ea District 4 

 IB vory remote froc settlements. 



I hpve read the lost issue of the Trinity Forest- 

 er vith jreat interest aa it contains much vclupble inform- 

 ation. I have taken asocial Interest in Ranker Petton's 

 article on Patrol vs. Lookouts. ?ir. ^atton's exrerlence 

 relctin^ to the value of lookouts <urln the einoky weather 

 la TTOoisely the sane cs my own but I will say that I have 

 found lookouts of service durin oncky reather by visiting 

 them alter fieri . Even if tho fire is on the opfoalte sif.e 

 of a smell rie ;e from lookout the litfht t.111 often ohow over 

 the tor of the rlv.re. The only Msadvontnje connected with 

 this --Ian ic the fece-tion in the cistance of the fire from 

 the lookout ,sl though a little experience develops fairly sood 

 Judgement in that respect. 



I will role to en instance that occuired last llov- 

 erober after icy c^*" ointment as 1'oroot Oup.rd hc6 terminated. 

 I wr.r. .itlll r.t .ar.dle Canr and eoke one nomin^ to find the 

 Eiountrins so full of aroke I could not see ovei one nils. I 

 started on rgtrol feeling confident there VPS a fire not far 

 cv ay. After srendlnj K very unsuccessful day I climbed 

 T^nhead lookout c.t dark. The fire res quite visible on th 

 Horth fork of Rec Bank Cieek, east of Klkhorn Mountain, out- 

 side of the Forest. I could not frve locrted this fire under 

 tv.-o ^678 ratrol. TVe acoke was so thick in S.P. of Coctonrood 

 Creek Canyon I could not tell there : as canyon thore. It 

 pnsood ever the divlce c.t the heads of S.F. Cottonwood Creek 

 md S.I . of Trinity T.iver so as to ettrpot ottentlon in Iicn.:er 

 Sray's Diotriot, causing a telerhone oesseje to Ranker Everest 

 that there ncs o fire somewhere about lloi-th Yolc Bola. Everest. 

 mt^lng e hurried trir to the couth side of Yola 3ola. found no 

 fire. If the telephone hac only ertended to Scodle Canr, I 

 c-^ulc hfive ssved Ranker Eveioct that lonf; lice. 



Alva Trecy. 



District Ho. R.-Liac hiver. May R, 1912. 



The r^ conth hea been c evote^ oMefly to adminis- 

 trative 7.orl;, claims taking first ^laoe. Exarinetions and 

 rerorts v.ere or.c'e on five homestead final ^roof cases and 

 hearings Attended In the OCSOB oi throe squp.tter claims, 

 (timber lands). 



TTork haa rrojressHC very nicely on the house at the 

 Itec Kiver Eanjor Station; *ight days were srent on this T ?rk 

 in \ hich time the frtne v.ao cor.utiuotec end tie building is 

 not; reedy for its roof ar.d finioving. Thio work v.lll -rob- 

 rbly "be delayed for some time inesmuoh as we r.re unable ,ot 

 present, to secure necessary luml.er from the lootl mill. 



