Show IN INTEREST OF fOREST SERVICE Leavitt Looks Over Situation Before Opening Headquarters in Salt Lake Clyde Leavitt chief of ot organization ot of the bureau of ot at Washington arrived in Salt Lake yesterday esterday to look over oer the situation before beCore opening the headquarters of the district forester foj to for forthe the intermountain region He visited some of or the large office buildings to learn what arrangements could be made for tor quarters for the district forester and his staff and met representatives of ot several of ot Salt Lakes commercial or organizations organizations Among these was C B Stewart sec secretary rotary r tary of the th Utah Wool Growers who on learning that efforts were being made in Ogden to secure the district headquarters of or the forestry service called caned the attention of or the officers of other organizations to the matter Mr Stewart thinks that as the government land office and other offices in which the sheep men have frequent business are located here the district foresters of or office orfice office fice should also be In Salt Lake Change In the System Under the district forester at Salt Lake will be about fifty men In the be beginning beginning beginning ginning This number will in time be Increased to The revenues of the district will ag aggregate aggregate aggregate about at present but butwill butwill butwill will be more than in a few j 3 ears Formerly all authority in the forest forestry ry 17 service was centralized in the hands handsor of or Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot at Washington who had chief chiet inspectors stationed In various parts of or the coun COUIl country country try tl This arrangement has been changed and the country has been di divided divided divided vided into six forestry districts which will w be placed under tinder the control of at dis district district district foresters Half of Force Will Move The change will result In the removal from Washington of at on half of at the present force in the chief foresters of or office lIce fice These men will be divided among the district foresters at San Francisco Portland Helena Denver Albuquerque and Salt Lake The district foresters will not assume charge of or their departments until Jan 1 1909 1009 To prevent confusion contusion in dividing the army of men now at work in the bu bureau bureau bureau reau of or forestry In Washington one branch of ot the service will be moved at ata ata ata a time until each of or the district offices has as complete a staff although small smaller er or as the headquarters In Washington There are five branches of ot the service operation grazing lands and products Ogden secured the tho supply depot of or the forestry service last June because the business men of that city offered the use of ot a warehouse containing square feet of or space Similar warehouse accommodations could not be secured in Salt Lake 0 |