Some of that may have been a problem because I know the other Federal Records Centers, like San Bruno, may have picked up some of those reports.
I want to digress just a little bit. There was a fellow in the southwest who wrote some of the most fantastic reports. His name escapes me right at the moment. But he’s a famous individual of the southwest. He wrote great reports. They were priceless. Later in the year the roofs around here, although they are built and were built for snow loads, they still had to be relieved. Particularly the places that people lived in, because there was a melting factor there. You had the heat that came out of the building that built up an ice ring around or on your eaves around the houses. It could be from February on when we had to relieve the roofs around here of ice and snow. This was a matter of chopping, and it was a matter of taking wires and cutting the snow. You’d anchor one end of a cable to like a tree and then hook the other one to a cat and pull this down across your snow which would cut it off. And then you could cut it off or slide it off or then cut it with a shovel to get it off. When it got deep enough alongside the house, you’d have to take a cat with blade and go along the long ways of the building and shove that snow away. Sometimes you’d have to take it for a hundred to get it away from the houses. These three houses that are up here, these small ones up here, where we lived later on, we had to shove that snow clear down by that old Hospital Building to get rid of it, away from those houses.
It was pushed over the side?
Right. When we went to take snow off the buildings around here, everybody that wasn’t gainfully occupied or doing something else took park in taking the snow off. Because there weren’t enough of us that you could just say, “This crew of six is going to take care of the snow.” You wouldn’t know because of days off and because of snowplowing and this sort of thing. You wouldn’t know that you would have a crew of six. The Ranger force pitched in right along with everybody else. We did have wildlife patrols in the fall. We had hunting patrols that were pretty constant, particularly on the east side of the Park where there were roads that ran virtually within sight of the boundary. I don’t know whether they are still there or not but they were in those days. So, it was quite common to find somebody that was awfully close, and occasionally to find somebody inside the Park hunting over there and then on the south side too, particularly on the southeast side or the east side of Annie Creek. There were roads right up to the Park there. And so we patrolled those quite frequently and quite a bit.
