Show SALT LAKE MADE MAD CENTRAL POINT Change to 10 Be Made in Admin Administration Administration of the Forest Service LARGE FORCE COMING WEST UTAH IDAHO AND NEVADA CASES TO BE HANDLED HERE Special to t The Herald Washington July 15 A radical change is to be made in the adminis administration administration of oC forest reserves national for forests ests during the coming fall all not a change of policy polley in any way but a change in the manner of ot dispOsing of forestry business The change is primarily primarily marily In the interest of ot the people of oC the west but incidentally it benefits the service Jn In that it will save sae consider considerable considerable able time and permit of prompt action In brief the large clerical force of the forest service now maintained in Washington Is to be divided in halves one half hal will wUl remain here the other half will be scattered over oer the west wherever the service maintains division headquarters About clerks and stenographers will be sent out from to Portland San Francis Francisco co Salt Lake Denver Demer and Albuquerque from forty to fifty going to each place Salt Lake a Central Office These respective offices will be placed In charge of oC administrative officers yet yetto yetto to be selected and once organized will handle and dispose of ot practically all administrative questions that arise in inthe Inthe the respective districts The Portland office for Instance will handle all questions arising in the national forests of oC Oregon and Washington Salt Lake will handle cases from Idaho Utah and andI I Nevada eada will handle Montana and Minnesota matters and Denver Dener I will take care of oC questions arising in Colorado and Wyoming I This change in administration will not entail any an new appointments what whatsoever eer All the clerks will be trans transferred erred from Washington and the ad administrative officers will be chosen from rom among the present officials of oC the serY service ice As vacancies occur however or oras oras as the service grows ros new appointments will have to be made and all such ap appointments appointments will be made by b the civil service commission Western people will be eligible to these appointments appointment just as they are at present but none will be appointed until they have passed the civil service examination In selecting clerks and stenographers for forestern western estern duty the forest service is largely guided by the wishes of at the em but there will wm be no difficulty in finding who will lUbe be willing to move from rom Washington to one of ot the six cities designated In fact there Is a greater demand than can be accommodated accommodated dated and in 11 every eer instance the Continued on Page 2 I i i j j I i i j I I I I II I I i SALT LAKE MADE CENTRAL POINT I Continued From Page 1 Ice will select the mos competent comP teni em tor western duty because e Indi Individual I vidual responsibility res will be greater there than it has hu been here Insures Prompt Attention By distributing the clerical force over the west the forest service will be able to give more prompt attention to the theman many man Questions than is possible where here papers have hae to be referred to Washington Washing j I ton for tor action and then returned The i granting of or all kinds of or permits pe the regulation of ot grazing sale of or timber and Md the supervision of forest guards and Md rangers trill all be done at the di dl division I vision n on headquarters In the west In Instead stead of ot waiting for tor authority from t Washington By B thus bus busi business 1 ness n the forest service will overcome one or ot the few fair criticisms that have haTe been tl made In congress conge s in late years The proposed changes will be made madei during the tall fall beginning about the first of ot October It is contemplated that I the removal will wUl be complete by Dec 31 In the meantime arrangements are areto to be made for office accommodations to in each of ot the division headquarters land and in most If It not all Instances Instance the forestry clerks will be obliged to occupy py Quarters because the respective fed federal eral eD buildings are already filled The service occupies rented quarters In Washington aad the money m ney saved j when 50 clerics cl ks depart win will provide am ampie ample pie accommodations In the be various anous i western westen cities i Headquarters in Washington W i Headquarters of or the forest service will still be ba maintained In the national capital and md all the various divisions i will VolU remain as at present Ires nt organized with mth their same J heads b s but the he clerical troICe Torce will be reduced educed end and much of ot the work rk now done doce here h will hereafter be bedone done In the west WestI f The change In administration In no noway way alters the forestry policy of or the government The same policies poUde that i I have been In vogue lately win will continue and the same me men mm will have haTe charge I I I The only advantage pained by the change Is 1 expedition e In administration I |