District !Io. T.-Siutrtfl for' . June 1, 191E. 



Since our Irot lettei , Assistant Han : er Box arc 

 myself h*vo been busy surveying the Bumboldt Mining Comrany's 

 mineral claim, counting otock, surveying a il.jht of ..ay for R 

 trail arc telephone line across railroad sections to Granite 

 Fe:k Lookout, end brushing out a trail te reck eur rire over 

 for our lookout line. ".e have . ut about one and one half miles 

 of trpil in oha r e to use, and looked out enC birred fbout four 

 miles of the route foi our telephone line. If the enow r.ac not 

 prevented ua, we would have had bcth our trail and telephone 

 lice routes rofinitoly located rt tlia time. 



TT/O r.en ha.'an vorl. on the Trinity Mountain Bender 

 Station tern l^cy 1ft and \ ill probably have it comrlotod by 

 the 5th. Our Buckeye b< rn built lest year "roved to be too 

 narro.. . it being only t; elve feet tide, so I instructed the 

 can-enter* to build this one fourteen feet wide. This 

 chcn.'e mcce it necessary to jet out tvo one sills and ten 70100 

 for floor 1oist3, and no/ necessitate the buying of a few 

 extra shores ar.d borrds, but I t 1 ink the benefit in hrving the 

 tvo extrc loct in *.icth '. ill noro hfcn Justify the extra expense, 



Our tolcyhone ;ire is ct Lo vieton now end &s soon" as 

 OUT trail to the foot of Oranite Teak is conrletod, re r<ill 

 rack ou the \ ire ant begin built i.-g tho line. '.a ex;ect te 

 ouilc this line tnt e tzail to the to^ of Granite Peak before 

 the fiiLt of July by r.ai^;er li.bor* 



Since the Trinity reconnaissance crcr is to be 

 soettereo tMs set son, ^;e roult not object to ore or t* o good, 

 technical fellows lor.Cinj uo c heni* in f;he construction of 

 this telephone line BTK" trail. Hov cbout this, Ilr. ^u^ervisor? 



Extra. 



I rut one over on -Bslstant r:ar.-er Boar not lonj a^o 

 worth telling about. Our lookout telephone instrument an ivod 

 during his pbaenoe, uhicl vei^hts oomewVere eround fifty rounds. 

 I took it out of the Vox anc rl.en he cfine home told hin t) at 

 we hac received a sanrle rortible teler^one instruroont to be 

 used by jatrolaen, EJX" ir.vited him in to see it. On first 

 eight Box aaid, "STher, thtt'e c. hncir.or", but trhen he tried to 

 pick ix u- he seic , "Great r.tott, o man vill neC. e rack horae 

 to ^et that thing trounC \"ith". 01 oouroe its ur to Box to 

 treat. 



June EG, 1912. 



On June 1 Aesietent F.tnjers 3. F. Viles and John 

 Molin tnt Forest Guerd J. H. C'irrinjs leforted for f.uty ct 

 Dictrict Renjer's hetc'qua: tero. They were tiu-ned over to 



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