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Unpquao-suporvisio April 22, I1
For est Supervisor,
U04ford, Oregon.
Dear Ur *iokeon:
Your letter of April 14 is raooive.a
I aa Very sorry tht I can not agras
with you us to Your V4esion of the grasing
conditions on the Umpqua ?orest* Tou have
evidently beon misinformed. I also regret
Very much to state that I thizk your attitude
In reference to inter-foreat grazi
matters with the Umpqua Porest in not onfl
wrong, btt arbitrary and not in aoro2-daso
with the anual. This ondition las xisted
for the past 6 years. Tie have submitted to
it, first; becauee we thought you would. se
the mistake and that the matter would finally
adju3st itself without frictiono Setond: %be
aause the range oon3ditions haie not been so
consestod as they aro now.
it may have been olorioal errors, but
the fact remains that we have never receiveL
a letter or other oonunioation from you asking
whether or not we approved th inolusioR
of grzing aroute loated within tho Umpqua
In permite issued by your office, either to
new or old permitteee, aoopt in one oea* In
191f. This couree of cooperation, to I believet
neoessary to equitably adjust graing conditions
between the two Porests, and thie la w1t I
have beon asking for. I ean not underetand
,why you objeot to euoh a ours*e,
The Johneon grothere range, muh of whioh
to looated within the Umpqua Formet was, an you
say, unused In 113 and '9,14* While Johasons
used the range they W a preferenoc right to
It from zra4 years use, When they wout out ot
the cattle business It left this range ope sul
I oostond that bofore you had authority to Issue
a permit to J. Z* Gordon in 1915 for the part
located within the Umpua, you should have first
seoured oval from this offie $whioh you Aid
not do. The firot we learned of this matter was
when we reosived a CoPY Of the Gordon permit,
" 2h 16 taken the same course with other
range within the Umpqua along the boundary Une
which you h cve allotted from time to time without
ootwulting this office* ftnao R# A* Gordon has not
ob-vaind. a preference right to the Johnson brothers
range I Insist that before you issue a permit to hi*