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Show SUPPLY DEPOT IT THE FOREST SERVICE HAS His arrival in the city delayed about twenty-four hours by a wreck on tho Union Pacific at Sidney, Nebraska, in which he received a shaking up and a slight nervous shock constituted the subject matter of a telegram received by L. P. Kneipp, Olden district forester, for-ester, from George G. Bentley, chief of maintenance In the Washington office of the forest service, this morning. Mr. Bentley is enroute to Ogden to assume temporary charge of the supply sup-ply depot at the forest service. Ho was scheduled to arrive in the city , this morning. In assuming charge of the supply depot, he will take up the work relinquished re-linquished by R. E. Connor, who resigned re-signed to engage aB local agent for the Underwood Typewriter company. This position In the forest service, provious to last February, was held by Mark ; Smith, who resigned to enter a business busi-ness affiliation with the reorganized Brownfng Bros, company oporating the business under that name In the store on Hudson avenue. The supply depot furnishes supplies to the six districts in the forest service. ser-vice. Mr. Bentley was chosen tem porarily for tho place because of the important considerations Involved In selecting a permanent successor to Mr. Connor. It was announced also at forest headquarters this morning that C. G. Smith, assistant district forester in charge of the silviculture department, had departed for Portland, Oregon, to attend the Pacific Logging Congress which will be in session for three days beginning today. A light snowfall in the Salmon national na-tional forest In Idaho is the Bubstance of a report of R. d. Garver, forest examiner, who has Just roturned from an inspection of entry surveys In tho forest. Thoburn C. Lyon, arrived from the Washington offices yesterday to tin-sumo tin-sumo his duties at Ogden district headquarters as Topographic Draftsman, Drafts-man, A fire that swept eighty acres without with-out cost to tho government is reported re-ported from tho Cache national forest in Utah. The blaze was defined aB brush fire. oo |
