and iioa taose of the two southern District Rangers. 



On the evening of Uednesday July 12, an entirely unex- 

 pected guest arrive-' at the Supcrvisear 1 ^ office. This was 

 Hr.J.G.Palok, the Property Auditor. Mr. Talok staid at the 

 Horthfprl: office for two days firmly refusing to fight fire, 

 inspect oaaps or otherwise depart from the strait and narrow 

 path of his duty which lay entirely with the care and records 

 of the non-expendable property. The two days were more than 

 warm, hut Mr._alei saw everything in the Office attic, in the 

 blacksmith shop, in the tool house. He saw every entry on the 

 records. Moreover he saw eacli item that should been on the 

 shelves or hoolrs but was not and yet such was his personality 

 that the visit was delightful. Another time it IB hoped there 

 will be fewer notes necessary, and that the Sierra property 

 custodian nay enjoy Mr.raleL^s good stories without having a 

 part of his brain busy trying to guess who toot the Abney level 

 without mentioning; it. 



3Inoe the last number of the RiJTCER went out, Supervisor 

 Benedict has been over the larger part of every district of the 

 Forest. 



The Cache, the Sevier and the Cooouino Forest publications 

 reach us with regularity, and to the list iiao now been adde-* the 

 Log of the lab, issued by the Madeison Laboratory. This will 

 prove of great interest , as the doings of the laboratory are 

 not known to many of us. 



It is with regret that note is made of the disconti i.ini-oe 

 of the 3an Joaruin light and Power lAgazine. The streams sup 

 plying this great Company's power are all within the 31erra 

 Seruoia ?orescs, and the work that power accomplishes as well 

 as the personnel of the power-houses and offices have been oi 

 constant interest to the" force of the two forests. It is sin- 

 cerelv hoped that the Company will feel able to publish the nag- 

 azine again when the present "tightness of money" has somewhat 

 relabel. Is this one of the iteina in our war account ? 



Assistant District Tor ester 'Joodbury, with Mr. Ralph I-Ir 

 entered this Porest earlj in July, discussed insect control -jx. 

 tors, visited the Ockenden-^y^bee a^~. 31; Creek Tra7 2o 

 timber soles, then went across the mountains to tlie In^o unc. 



o Torests, returning via tlie -ioga Road a: if. Yosenite 

 to Sugar Pine and later to Uortlifork. This Is the fl; 

 in many years .^oodjur;- has combined business wit 

 ure on a trip across this Torest. 



