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<br />" <br /> <br />Appendix C <br /> <br />** Prior to the Rock Creek fires very few cattle drifted into the creek above the forks {forks of <br />NorthlSouth Rock creek.J. W.E. Hocker put the first cattle into Rock Creek above the forks in 1897. <br /> <br />RGNF <br />1926 <br /> <br />Early Fires by Forest Ranger Truman. <br /> <br />** A fire threatened the town of 8achelor during the summer of 1893. This fire also extended to the <br />Willow Creeks burning large areas in that vicinity. . <br /> <br />_ Almost the entire population of the town of Bachelor spent days combatting this fire which killed aU <br />the timber surrounding the town. Later the town was sometimes called "Stump Town.. <br /> <br />** Recorded fires in Dry Gulch date back as far as 1879. The last large fire occurring in 1893. <br /> <br />** Most of the timber burned on Goose Creek during the summer of 1881 according to Mr. Dan <br />Soward. <br /> <br />RGNF <br />1926" Historical Data. Conejos Ranger District. <br /> <br />** Pinorealosa Ridge was named for its great stand of spruce timber before the fire of 1879. <br /> <br />RGNF <br />1927 <br /> <br />Letter dated April 14, 1926 by E.E. Vanakean, Forest Ranger. Historical Data. <br /> <br />** The Red Mountain and Middle Cree.k. fires burned in 1879, the origin of the fire is not known. <br /> <br />RGNF <br />1949 <br /> <br />History of Timber Activity on the RGNF. <br /> <br />** Ben McLauglin operated a sawmill in Sawmill Gulch northeast of La Garita Park in 1895. He cut only <br />dead material from the big burns on Geronimo Creek [Geronimo burns therefore pre-1895J. <br /> <br />RGNF <br />1953 <br /> <br />Cumulative Silvical Record. <br /> <br />_ When the RGNF was established in 1908 the emphasis was placed on controlling fire. <br /> <br />_ A graph, prepared by 1C. Baird 1212148, indicates Annual Precipitation for Sante Fe, New Mexico from <br />1850 to 1950. Also indicated is the annual precipitation ofthe average of CumbreslManassa, Hermit, <br />and Garnett records from 1910to 1950. <br /> <br />_ In 1906 it was stated that "most of the aspen [on the RGNF] averages 30 or 40 feet in height and 3 <br />or 4 inches in diameter having grown up after fires which occurred about 50 years ago [1856]. <br /> <br />r ,",..,!'!" ')h <br />I, ' ,.1 '- ~ {.. V <br /> <br />C-7 <br />