last trlj of the season Into the high mountains. His 

 course tock him to Clover Meadow, Rot's Headow, Fish 

 Creek Vr.lley, Crater Creek and other points in the water- 

 shod of the 1'orth Fork of the 3e.n Jo&quin, mainly on grazing 

 r :e reconnaissance, though parti'/ on general Inapeotion 

 and on Hair Trail route lockout. An early snow caught 

 him one night; he had the pleasure oi helping put out two 

 1 ;*h tiling-set fires, caught all kinds of fish and had a 

 miscellaneous lot of other experiences in the course of 

 his duty. 



On October 5, National Forest Examiner Hopping reachofl 

 thfork. ready to over the insect control areas. Forest 

 Examiner 31roh rode across from Shaver the same day and met 

 L'r, Helping at the Forest office. Together they started for 

 the Chiquito and Rook Creek areas the next morning, going 

 "'Highly over the area worked ti.is spring, the area part- 

 vorked and adjoining areas not v/orked at all, foi com- 

 parison. They returned by way of the >/hite and Friant in- 

 sert oTitrcl operations, reaching Hor thfork on the night of 

 October 14. They noted that the V/hite e.nd Priant 1,-ght 

 Ing done in connection with insect control seemed to 

 been especially disastrous to polo and sapling stands 



pine. Possibly if this burning had been done more 



in snail aroas at a tine, less damage would 

 beer, done than is now apparent on the approximately 

 > acres burned over. 



The emergency sale of approximately four million feet 

 of timber to the I-Iadera Sugar Pine Company, on which mark- 

 ing began August 22, is now olcseu. This sale brought 

 something over yl,000 Into the United States treasury. 

 Sole conditions have been carrie . out by both parties to 

 the contract with so much care that no delays and but very 

 little friction have occurred. To be sure one complaint 

 was made, when on September 13 the llenager for the Conrm- 

 ny telephoned in that the so&le was over-running the mill 

 tally by ten percent, but when Lumberman Elliott aheck- 

 scaled carefully, and went ov-r all the scaler f s and tally- 



'igu-es, it was found thit vhe e-i&TL* had uniermn 

 about two peroert, as the Leo?.ri.l uauui:^ jes, Bven 



; j frames oan rn^ce ^iBxakes. Only "Unole Joe" is in- 

 fallible. 



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