fragments entering his am and log. A doctor from Bi Creek 

 went in and administered first-aid treatment at Island Camp 

 where he met the trail orew carrying the injured nan out to 

 Dinkey on a stretcher. Only one who has helped to carry a 

 nan on a stretcher over a mountain trail can imagine what a 

 Job it is to carry him fifty miles over some of the roughest 

 trails in the Sierras. 



District Ranger Beothe accompanied the Samples while they 

 gathered their cattle from the Blue Canyon Range In September, 

 and the only fire in the Kings River District t dr^te was put 

 out while en this trip. It had burned over about ten acres 

 !. ar Tehlpite Dcme. This was a lightning fire and h&d evi- 

 dently been burning slowly for two weeks or more. 



R.S. Armstrong reached Dinkey on October 10, on his way 

 out from the trail camp where he had been cooking for the 

 crew. He had not been feeling well for some time, so con- 

 cluded to come out with some friends who happened to be com- 

 ing through the Middle Fork at that time. The rest of the 

 orew wao brought out by Ranger Boothe on the 18th, and most 

 of then were pretty glad to get out. Three to four months 

 ir. a oanp with only a half doaen or so visitors gets to be 

 an old story with most of us. 



The new tool-room and office building at Dinkey Sta- 

 tion is about completed except for the shingle stain. 

 There is & baaer.ent underneath, about 10 T x 12', to be used 

 as a stre-room; the tool-room In the back is fitted with a 

 work bench, and there is a pl^oe over the office room for 

 fire tools. Wo are trembling In our boots for fear the Su- 

 pervisor will onfisoate this office and establish his own 

 headquarters here when he sees how classy it is. 



Once more the semi-annual moving act has been completed 

 and we are settled at Trlnr.er but it doesn't look much like 

 winter d^wn here yet. The well is dry and if it doesn't rain 

 pretty soon, it looks as through the river might also go dry. 



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