Horse Insurance 



by 

 A.K.Wofford 



Let us all stay with the horse insuranoe plan. The 

 proposition looked pretty g cd to us at first, when assess- 

 ments were light and several Sierra en were paid for their 

 horses , but recently assessments have "been many and higher 

 than at first. As a result a number of the men are dropping 

 out which looks like a pretty poor policy. Ho one ex- 

 pects to get some thing for nothing out of this. As in all 

 nutual insurance propositions, a nan expects to put Into It 

 all he ever takes out. It nly means that Instead of having 

 to dig up tho whle price of your horse when ho dies, you 

 have paid - nr will pay - for him in small Installments. 



I believe, however, that instead of assessing each man 

 the same amount , regardless of the value of his horse , It 

 would be a fairer way to prorate the assessment according to 

 the valuation put upon each horse at the time he was Insured. 

 Let the ownr give not only the name, odor and age cf the 

 horse he wishes to Insure, but the value, certified to by a 

 Committee as It now is upon the death of the horse. That 

 would at least lower the assessment of the man who now thinks 

 the insurance pretty steep for a cheap animal. 



Special Use Reconnaissance in Southern California 



by 



Prank Price. 



A winter spent in southern California I This sounds like 

 all play and no work, but I hope that the following statement 

 of facts will help to dispel the Illusion. 



I left ray headquarters on the Sierra on January 1, and 

 arrived In Los Angeles at 8 P. K. January 2. Hever having been 

 in such a larg*>. city before, I of course followed the time- 

 worn oustrtn and walked up the itiddle of the street with a suit- 

 Plane In each hand until I found an electric sign proclaiming 

 that that particular building was the Hotel Rosslyn. After 

 BOKO argument with the night clerk and a tussle with the bell 

 boy to kep him from getting away with my grips, I was finally 

 put inta * large Iron cage and hcisted to somewhere near the 

 top of the building where I was shown a room which I was told 

 I could occupy for the night. 



At R:3C the next morning I reported to Forest Supervisor 



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