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Show Or Cache Forest iistory not sene lung s, t.e he was killed in a accident b a team EV V.. K. IIOYEY America and for sowral hundred years Ib the 0f conservation of the natural oi hiises in the canyon. Leatham wds ni) pian Hollow in the Lett Hand Folk frfS'fter the iapid settlement of the western part of beats his name to this day. A n r' .tirffsthat our imuucuimiuiits, cabin was built at the mouth of j crate'- - it iH.oame apparent It was not until 1891 this hollow and was called the depleted. ' were being I timber, root took and Congress passed Leathan cabin. It was replaced of conservation e ld? at his discretion fat tber up the canyon with a the to president ,.e power modem rangers station. insure tnai g sale or seme from Ranger re-- 1 pan as fo.est Since Dave Theurer was herdterritory, anv ing cattle in Logan Canyon and ,lions in holly or in part was familiar with conditions, Und!; pnibei Pi of. Peaid. Supervisor Squires was pleased to IJlationM, has called -d get the services of Mr. Theurer most one of tu, as fne guaid and ranger. Mr. (Cuon parsed in measures Theurer had helped to heid cattle int ration of tbe in Logan Canyon as far back as lin 1887 and 88. He assumed his new public iron Pres, dent duties with the Forest Reserve thus author itj the aMd July 1906. He had to furnish his VcieveLa,,d st in Cal .forma own saddle horse and two pack Forest jiifijuin It lemained hotses and his keep for $00 00 M!ional domain. Theodoie Roosevelt per month. This was small pay ntsadm.msuat.on to leally but Dave recalls that the dollar of am then was woith neatly one bundnational pout n.ituial ieled cents in purchasing powet. Ration of ui one of. to Mr. Theuiei s Accotdmg This is ronsrle.ed lecollectiuns it was at this time ,Hn.m Pies. dent In natu-felt'rendemd h.s plans weie toi ululated lui the ill 1 01 allotment of the livestock on the message to Co.lie'S of the n, Roosevelt spoke iango Heietofoip the mttlcinen i n. c a. al ' mi and sheepmen tame liom all sides yrvatwn i.il- - and "ith their heids ol cattle, tan es 'ces in vital iho no si and sheep. Seveial thousand head iter po in t in weie lushed into the canyons to e,Ml H'addedmilU' - of acies Logan water. Many times, ospeci-th- e the teed as quakly as the gobble upTheie was no Nati"n..l Koiests ally alter stuimy vveathei, supei visum ".v. from s millions people dtank muddy vvatei. Agita-o- f possible. or lest net ions and gieed and to this condition was tion iemedy selfishness weie lampant. public lands lontainmg more all the time. When wealth in the forniof growing Usually the livestock came on In 1905 it was announced that Piesident I and phosphates.tiansferred the range eaiiy in May or just was Roosevelt forest reserving hJ the forests as soon as the grass had staited . Public Lands Office of lands for moie and better protec- to grow. The glass had little to the care tion, the Logan City Council, with Interior of pept. of the William Edwards as Mayor, im- chance to get a good start. It was Service Forest t special under the mediately solicited the efforts of difficult to get the cattle and . of Agricultuie valuable congressman Joseph Howell, of sheep allotments and prior rights most rtkin of his established. Those who complied policies, Logan, to see that a forest reconservation In porter serve was created in Logan can- with the rules and regulations Cache Forest He-- e was set up by the Forest Reseive have yon. Congressman Howell dort the Logan Foiest retained their original grazing did was and excellent active work very ai established theie in getting Logan Canyon included rights. control whatever over sheep Fighting forest fires was also in the Reserve. cattle grazing in the canyons, a big problem with the limited reto for water government our According supply of source man power of the Forest Service, punwses. cords, the Logan Forest Reserve nary and Irrigation was 1903, first established May 29, by Perhaps the most disastrous fire a Theurer, one of the men proclamation of President Theo- on the Logan Reserve occurred tat Rangers and cattle "the sky dore Roosevelt. May 28, 1906, the east of the mill and Spring HolLogan canyon, says, low s. in the limit grazing, cattle Logan Reserve was included in First Stations National Forest. the River the Bear along iheep bedded were over-an- d May 26, 1908 other lands were inDave recalls the first forest , the lands every summer theie cluded and the Cache National cabins constructed on the Logan dustbowls. Forest was established. but Reserve. Before these cabins were nothing First Supervisor was becoming serious and available, the langeis had to use Forest tents. In the early spring and late Soon after the Logan water sheds were threatened early Reserve was created, John F. fall these were not comfot table. irrigation, any late weie inci easing. Squues, who conducted a barber The fust cabin constructed w'as aiming of the forest eontiol shop on main street, Logan, was a one room lumber shanty built in government was a 'Cod- - appointed supervisor of the Logan at the Card Canyon Logan ind a blessing to the people Forest Reserve through the Canyon. Supei visor So lines and forts of Congressman Howell. Dave did most of the work. This Water Supply Congressman Howell was also shanty was teplaced by a modern Logan City received its responsible for the appointment building now known as the Card icy water supply directly of James Leatham of Wellsville Ranger Station. The second foiest I Logan River thtough the as Forest Ranger. Leathams dis- cabin was built at the mouth of Canal and trict was mostly in the Left Hand Leatham Hollow in the Left Hand (r 'fact that the sheep and cattle Fork of the Blacksmith Folk of the Blacksmith Folk Canyon. bedding along the liver (and canyon, the southern boundry of It was replaced with a modern often dead sheep and tattle the Forest Reserve. Leatham did building farther up the canyon o if ,ation "T" lun-avva- v ( f '1 Is ' I -- n- K 1 DUE THUKF.it and how known as the Leit Hand Fmk Ranger Station. A' other building was located in the Mud Flat aiea in liugan Canyon It was a two loom kg cabin built by Ollie M Culloch. It was Intel lepbued with a one room build. ng now known la the Mud Flat Ranrei Station It was at this plate the hot est Service made telephone council ions wgh then ot hoi stations fiom the main telephone line ot the telephone company between Logan and the Bear Lake countiy. One of the most substantial buildings ilint still lemams is known as the Tony Gtove Ranger station This was built of sawed house logs under the direction ol Allied Bemtson. Bemtson did an excellent jou in dove tailing the logs and building the cabin with tw o looms. It stands today as a model in house log construction. The station has always been popular with the i angers and Democrat-Heral- d in Albany, Oiegon, which Mr. Evans recently supervised, was Tcredited by group of leading publishers who annually judge special editions as being the second best in the nation. He has high hopes that the Planning Of Pioneer Edition Herald Journals Pioneer Miss Margaret Jensen of Mention was employed as the first clerk of the Logan Forest Reserve May 1, 1907, under the direction of Supervisor Squires. Miss Jensen still lives at Mendon and recalls a number of interesting experiences which came through the office. In reminiscing Miss Jensen says the first office was up stairs in a building located where the present Lloyds of Logan and the Model Billiards are. The Co-o- p Di ug occupied the first floor. Later a move was made to two rooms where the Budge Clinic is. Later two rooms over the City 1 the loca-- , high-- First Clerk pf Pioneer Progress Centennial Edition Herald-Journ- al Oregon Man Aided In ay. - C Told foresters and has an ideal turn not far off the main w The Drug stole building weie ocThe final move was in the Fedcial building whete the pysent offices ate maintained. At the beginning Miss Jensen's salaiy was $10 IK) per month. She teealls that the dollar then had cmisidetable nuue purchasing power than today. She left the setvue June 1, 1927, having served for twenty years under the duection of six forest supeiv tsors. cupied. Forest Supervisor John F. Squire was the first supet visor of the Logan Forest Reset ve in li03. In 1907 he asked to he relieved of the office and V. V. Clai k was sent to succeed Mi. Squiies. A few months later Mr. Clark died of pneumonia in the Card Ranger cabin in Logan canyon. Mr. Squires was askect to lesume the supervlsorship until a new supervisor could be appointed. Mr. Woodruff took over for a short time and Mr. Squires was apixnnted as Forest Ranger until 1912. He was then hired as In a laborer until he resigned 1917. He had served in all the capacities of the Forest Service at that time for 14 years. He died 1932 at the age of 86. V. W. Clark: He solved only a few months and died of pneumonia. Mark i. Woodruff: 1908. He also served for just a few months and was tiansferred. Mr. Clinton G. Smith: Smith was supervisor of the Pocatello Reserve. When this was and the Cache National Forest was established, Mr. Smith became the supervisor. PreE. C. Shepard: vious to his appointment he was Forest Assistant and Forest Examiner. He was transferred to the Boise and Wasatch National Forests. He is deceased. Mr. Carl B. Aron toon: Arentson served the longest of any of the supervisors on the Cache National Forest, 14 years. He was transferred to the Mina-dok- a and Bridger National Forest. He is retired and lives In Logan Canyon during the summers and in California during the winters. 0 was transA. G. Nord: ferred from the Regional Office in Ogden to the Cache National Forest. After serving four years he was transferred to the Regional Office at Ogden, wheie he is located at present. James O. Stewart: Mr. Stewart came from the Payette National Forest Idaho as supervisor. He served as supervisor of the Cache National Forest for 11 years. He was transferred to the Manti National Forest July 1907-190- Pro-gre- ss Centennial edition will be Advising in planning, soliciting ver and got a job with Joe Ward, and writing the advertising for city editor of the Denver Post. given first rank this year. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have a the Herald Journal's Pioneer ProCity Bet suburban home in the gress CentenniWard assigned him to the Tualatin Valley southwest of al edition has and city court beat, knowing police well Portland, Oregon. His hobby is been R. Ken-not- h it was the toughest raising dogs. He introduced the Evans, who he could give a greenassignment Great reporter, Pyrennese breed into West1R 1RS I n'any Hu fust day out he failed to get ern Ameiica. I I of expeiljears some good stories, and Ward adence in vised hint to go back to Kansas. newsof phases He foikiwed Wards advice, and 17-Year paper work and within a year was city editor of who has made the Wichita Daily Eagle. a specialty of Mr. Evans next went into the anti planning oiganuation in Topeka. the Capper sunervisiug Kansas. In thiee or four years f o publication with that organization he acquirspecial editions. ed valuable KANSAS CITY, Mo. j. Theies background in the S t a r ting in In West XlAWsrtl newspaper wotk, vaiious depaitnients of newspaper a considerable racket woik and decided he wanted to go Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ilat the age of 9 into specialty fields connected linois, Arkansas and Missouri this as a devil boy with new summer, orginating with an insect simper advet Using. on a weekly Wot Id War I his news- that has been waiting sixteen During paper in Kansas, Mr. Evans car- paper career was intei rupled as yeais to make It. eer lias taken him into alt aspects he sinmt 22 months in the This is the year of the seventeeservice, of new simper publishing, and .since 11 of them in France. On the way n-year locusts, or cicadas. They 1919 he has specialized in industriback to America, woid wmnt live in the ground in a nymph&t al survey work for papers ini around that the women had all state for 16 years and then come many parts of the west and mid- the newspaper jobs back home, out and make noises In trees for dle west. He originated the indusand it was then that he conpeiv a few weeks. Then they die. trial sutvey woik for nowspnpets, ed the idea of industrial survey Before they have finished with and has conducted this type of work for newspapers. Today he is beating a built-i- n drum contrapsurvey for over 3(H) daily papers. the only man in the country do- tion on the abdomen, they leave 400 to 600 eggs, making certain His parents were both school ing that type of work. there will be new noises in 1968, teacheis, and he him.self received Special Edit iun his education at Kansas AgriculA cicada stays put, in contrast Mr. Evans has since supervised to the migratory locust, which actural College, working his way through school with a job in a many special editions, among them tually Is a winged grasshopper. It's the male that causes the printing department at 10 cents the 100th anniversary edition of an hour. Later his father became the Illinois State Register, which ruckus. a lawyer and he decided to study ran to over 200 pages; the official The noise the male makes is law him.self. He completed three dedication edition of the new Irresistible to female cicadas. Matand law studies, state capltol of the Salem, Oregon ing takes place quickly. The feyears of pre-labut the "printers Ink In his Capitol Journal, and the 75th male has a saw-lik- e depositor with veins" brought him back Into the anniversary edition of the East which she saws out a channel in a newspaper business, and at the Oregonian at Pendleton. twig. It takes her about 45 minThe 90th anniversary edition of utes to lay her eggs. age of 20 he barnstormed to Den re all Locusts Return To Several States " w Ilonkins Auto Service 1 1909-191- run-of- 1915-192- . cSu & 2. 1922-193- i c il 6. 1936-194- PERRY STEWART MOTOR CO. 30 SOUTH MAIN STREET LOGAN TELEPHONE 483 UTAH 1940-195- THE ... HOME OF 1951 SERVING THE CACHE VALLEY . Dependable 1, 1951. Joel I Frykman: Mr. Frykman was transferred from a staff position on the Boise National Forest to supervisor of the Cache National Forest July 1, 1951. 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Father Carlyle has guided personally the spiritual lives of some 10,000 "persons in distress" since he came to the province from England in 1923. The priest arrived in British Columbia for a short rest after suffering a nervous breakdown from overwork but he stayed on for 28 years to make his life work among the prisoners and outcasts of society. He has gone home now. Archbishop Duke of Vancouver gave him an extended leace of absence from the diocese. The smiling priest with kindly eyes will end his days in Prinknash Abbey, a monastery he founded more than 40 years ago in Gloucestershire, England. As an Anglican, Father Carlyle founded the first Benedictine monastery to be established in the Church of England since the Reformation. The monastery renounced allegiance to the Anglican Chtlrch in 1913 and was received into the e. The episode, beChurch of fore the outbreak of World War I, was a mark in British church history. 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