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<br />evidently were proved up on in a hurry because he
<br />also ~tates that from 1903 to 1905 he and other Elk
<br />River ranchers furnished the Carbon Timber Company
<br />tie camps, along Encampment River, Damfino Creek
<br />and Hog Park. with hay, grain and meat,
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<br />In 1906, the Carbon Timber Company made inquiries
<br />to purchase National Forest timber on the Routt but
<br />evidently the Service had by that time got wind of
<br />illegal cutting in the area. No sale was made to
<br />them, In July, 1907, Supervisor Hogan sent Ranger
<br />Sam Coleman and guard Earl Salisbury in to Hog Park
<br />to cruise the area for trespass, Nothing happened,
<br />so in September, Hogan sent Harry Ratliff, then a
<br />Ranger and Stapleton, a guard, in to find out the
<br />trouble, They found Salisbury working with Company
<br />tie hacks and Coleman locating trespass cutting with
<br />the help of company men and with the use of Company
<br />data, No maps had been prepared and tally sheets
<br />were grossly inaccurate, Ratliff took over and
<br />started running control lines to the State line to
<br />locate the areas of trespass, Coleman was transferred
<br />from the jOb to Steamboat Springs and took all V,S,
<br />marking hatchets with him, Ratliff had to follow
<br />him a ways to get the equipment, It is said that
<br />some fisticuffs resulted on this occasion, Anyhow,
<br />from September to late November, Ratliff mapped and
<br />cruised the area finding approximately 1,200 acres
<br />of forest land cut over and 1,078,348 feet b,m. of
<br />saw timber, 235,680 ties, 23 mine ties, and 156,240
<br />mine props cut in trespass, He recommended settle-
<br />ment on an innocent basis and fixed charges at 6-2/3
<br />cents per tie, 3 cents per mine prop and $2 per
<br />M b.m. for saw logs. He also recommended a $1,00
<br />per M deposit fDr brush burning and cleanup. His
<br />report was dated 11/9/07,
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<br />The Carbon Timber Company under signature of its
<br />President, Andrew Olson, 1/19/09, offered to settle
<br />the trespass for $8,496,89 at the rate of $1 per M
<br />for 7,519,431 board feet and $2.50 per M for 386,982
<br />board feet, and also agreed to skid and clear a strip
<br />100-200 feet wide between their property and National
<br />Forest lands. On March 29, 1910, the Company agreed
<br />to settle on the basis of 11,278,293 feet b,m, out in
<br />"unintentional trespass" for $14,775,18 and, in lieu
<br />of cleaning the brush and debris between the Company's
<br />land and the National Forest, to clear a "fire line"
<br />approximately on the top of the Continental Divide,
<br />in Colorado and Wyoming, from a point where the
<br />Continental Divide crosses the township line between
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