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Larly in 1909 I was eng&ged aa "Forest £xpert' st $75 per month and
assignàd to a tiiaber cruising perty in Montana. On July 1 I was a4vsnced
in salary to $83.33 per aonth, but deitotad. in title to that of'Poret
Aasistant". A prerequisite of the job was that one furnish and maintain
pack and saddle stock.
In July, 1909 I was assigned to the Rainier National Forest, G. F.
Allen Supervisor. Here I iust pause to express my affection for that
scholarly a.nd eacentric.. gentlemen. He had antici.tsd the transfer of
the Foreet Reservea froia Interior to Agriculture and the rau].tant expansion
so ha4 joined the Land Office aevera]. years before that change
was affected. At that tiae the Rainier extended from Stampede Pass to
the Columbia River on both siopes of the Casca4e Divide.
Mr. Allen' s predecessor as supervisor of the Reserve was Dave
Sheller, a loca.]. politico. Me turned over to Mr. Alien a half dozen
rusty shovla a axes, stored in a. d.ap cellar of a. Tacoma Saloon,
explaining they were furnished for fire fighting purpo3es. The Reserve
had no office, the correspondence was carried on from the Supervisor'8
residence. Neither were there ranger station5 for razgers were eap].oyed
only during summer ionths and. caiaped wherever they happened t be.
Mr. Allen took up residence at Buckley in t906 for living expenses
were lees there than at Tacoma. Sub$equently, he Moved to Yakiia, in
1907, then to Orting, (1908-It) where office space was rented in an old,
stor. building. In 1911 it wa, aoved to the newly coapisted Poitoffice
Building in Tacoma.
It reaind. there until 1933 when the Rainier Forest was dismembered
to enlarge the adjoining one6, which were aU sa1lr in area. The
Yakiaa side of the Naciee-Yakima Divide was aAded. to the Wenatchee unit.
The Snoqua.laie unit took the rea.inEer of the east side and, the weet side
to and. including the Nisqua.11y and. Tilton drainages. The Coluabia irtharitod
the Cowlitz and Cimpua areas. (Originally the Columbia had been a.
portion of the Rainier and that iiade a large territory to cover with poor
trazisportatioii. Field trips were of long duration. For exaaple, Mr. Allen
would, with hi5 horsee, boa.rd a river boat at La Center to reach White
Salmon and the Mt. Adaas region. An alternate route was by trail out of
iakima).
The Forest Supervisor was also Park Superintendent, ex officio, but
this axrangeent terminated abruptly during the Baliinger-Pinchot incident.
The S.creta.ry of Interior telegraphe& Mr. Allen to turn over the
recorda to a. succeisor and assist ttim in every way possib1 to becoae
acquainted wtth th. intricacies of his new office. Th.re wa. no 'ord
of appreciation to Mr. Allen for p.rforaing this function for a decade.
The Supervisor's salary was then $18OO and. his clerk's $1200 for a.diniatr*ting
both Forest and Park. The new Park Superintendent's salary
was set at $24i.00 with a clerk at $1,600. The ip.tus given to oreate
the Park wae furn1hed by the Northern Pacific Railway Coapany. In that
way the Coapazl3r received lieu selection graztz for valuable tuber laths
on Graye Marbon in p].a.c. of snow fiel&s and rock cliffs in the Parke
When automobiles first began to co*e to the Park the regulations prohibited
women from driving within it and cars were not allowed to move
under their own power, after 6 PM. The penalty for violating the latter
was a $5 fine plus the expenae of towing the car out of the Park with a
teaa of hor8es. A pro.tnent citizen. Major Everett Griggs, violated this
rule and was taken to task by a Park Guard, Williaa Sethe. The incenaed
*otori8t inquirei if Bill didn't know who he was. It was then Bill iade
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