Forest ~:car.iner Birch and fanily have returned to i.orth- 

 forl. /r^:-. Shaver whore llr .Birch has beer, stationed this sum- 

 aer. 



Assistant Harder Cat hey and wife left Shaver on October 

 12 for Ilarii-osa County. 



Mrercen Charles Mercer of the Shaver Hanger Station and 

 John Dillwood of Jose Ranger Station have gone off duty be- 

 cause the fire season ought to be over. Lookout Parker came 

 down from Baldy for the winter on October 16. 



listriot Ranger Price and wife left October 16 for San 

 Pranoisoo where the visited the Exposition for about ten 

 days. 



Kings River District. 



Supervisor Redington visited the Kings River District 

 early in August, and, accompanied by District Ranger Boothe, 

 inspected the work being done on the Iliddle Pork section of 

 the John "uir Trail. This is undoubtedly the hardest piece 

 of trail construction yet undertaken on this Forest, but the 

 soenlo attractions that will be made accessible to the pub- 

 lio on the completion of the trail are certainly worth the 

 aeeningly high cost of construction. Mr.Redlngton took some 

 beautiful photographs while on this trip that prove this 

 statement without further argument. 



The wire was not stretched up p.t the Crown Rook public 

 pasture this year, but the posts are set and the wire on the 

 ground ready to be stretched the first thing in the spring. 

 The wire was left up on one of the pastures at Dinkey with 

 stays brtweer. the posts naklng the distance not core than 2-i- 

 feet between supports. If this experiment proves satisfact- 

 ory in keeping the snow and zero weather fror, slacking the 

 wire, we will be able to profit by It in the construction of 

 public pastxires in the high country. 



While hunting with a man nar.ed Charles Campbell, of 

 Recdley, Ned Baird, one of the trail crew, accidentally 

 shot and seriously injured Campbell. The bullet struck 

 CacpVell r s rifle barrel and exploded, several of the 



