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SOUTHWESTERN a, k MONUMENTS MONTHLY REPORT SEPTEMBER - - - 1938 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SOHTHWESTERN MONUMENTS SEPTEMBER.1938. REPORT INDEX OPENING, by Superintendent Pinkley page 185 CONDENSED GENERAL REPORT Travel 187 400 Flora, Fauna, and Natural 000 General 188 Phenomena 190 010 Administrative. : . 188 500 Use of Monument Facilities. 191 200 Maintenance, Improvements, 600 Prelectiono , ,,,,,,,> 191 and New Constructionio . 189 700 Arche-1o , Pre-hist., History 192 K5P0RTS FROM MEN IN THE FIELD Arches 238 Gran ^uivira 209 Aztec Ruins 199 Hovenweep . , 197 Bandelier 225 Mobile Unit 235 Bandelier CCC 227 Montezuma Castle 216 Bandelier Forestry 228 Natural Bridges 228 Canyon de Chelly . 218 Navajo 193 Capulin Mountain 224 Pipe Spring 207 Casa Grande 202 Sunset Crater 223 Chaco Canyon 234 Tontc • 197 Chiricahua 210 Tumaencori. ; 214 Chiricahua CCC . 211 Walnut Canyon- 211 El Morr-- 229 White Sands 213 El Morro Library ....... 233 Wupatki 221 HEADQUARTERS Annual Visitor Contact Summary 246b Branch of Maintenance 239 Annual Visitor Record by Mon's 246c Comparative Visitor Statistics. 244 Branch of Accounting 246f Personnel ........... 246g Branch of Education. .. 240 Visitor Records for September . 246 THE SUPPLEMENT A~fc Tumacacori; a Garden or a Beanpatch? By, J.II.Tovrea 262 From the-Visiters' Angle, By The Boss 264 Navaj Name for Chaco's Ruck, By Neil M. Judd 270 Ruminations, By The Boss 270 The Mission Garden at Tumacacori, By.The 3^3 didand Charlie Carter. 257 SOUTHWESTERN MONUMENTS PERSONNEL HEADQUARTERS: National Park Service, Coolidge, Arizona. Frank Pinkley, superintendent; HughM . Miller, ass't. superintendent; Parke W. Soule, chief clerk; Dale 3. King, ass't. park naturalist; Char lie R, Steen, jr. park archeologist; Natt N. Dodge, jr. park naturalist; J.H.Tovrea, ass't. engineer; Charles D. Carter, jr. landscape architect; Luis A. Gastellum and Russell Landry, clerk stenographers; Ira C. Goodwin and Larry Mungerru, CCC clerks; F.E.Stonehocker, machinist; J.L.L.Baehr, utility man; Teddy Savage, CCC machinist helper; and Victor Scholz, CCC mimeugraph operator. ' ,• FIELD STATIONS — POST OFFICE -- PERSONNEL — 1938 VISITORS — ACRES AREA 1. ARCHES; Moab, Utah; . Harry Reed, ranger. 4,520.00 2. AZTEC RUINS; Aztec, New Mexico; T.C.Millor, cus- 20,214 . 25.88 todian; J.W.Brewer, Jr., park ranger. 3. BANDELI^; Santa Fe, N.Mex. ; C.G.Harkins, cus-. 14,619 . .26,026.20 todien; J.M.Spuhler. temp, ranger; Geo. Shelly, grader ^peratt-r; 3 CCC guides and helpers. 4. CANYON D£ CHELLY; ChinCfcin Lee, Ariz.; Johnflill ". 1,573 . .83,840.00 Fr.ris, custodian. 5. CAPULIN MOUNTAIN: CapC&pulin, N.M. ; Hu Fr.rr, custo. 30.200 . 680.37 6. CASA GRANDE; Coolidge, Ariz.; A.T.BiCknall, . 33,761 . '. .'472.50 custodian; Don Egermayer, ranger; J. Rogers, S. Coyle, and G. Sheffield, CCC guides. 7. CHACO CANYON; Chaco Canyon, n. Mex. ; Le.vis T. Mc-. 5,271 . .21,512.37 Kinney, cust • ; Homer Hastings, temp, ranger. 8. CHIRICAHUA: Douglas, Ariz.; Frank Fish, custodian, 9,145 . .10,694.80 G.G.Philp, temp, ranger; H. Bennett, Wrri. Stone, and H. Minton, CCC guides. 9. EL MORRO; Ramah, N. Mex*J -R.R.Budlong, custodian . 3,208 . 240.00 10. GILA CLIFF DWELLINGS; Cliff, N.Mex.; nc custodian. 105 . 160.00 11. GRAN QUIVIRA; Gran Quivira, N.M.; G. Boundey, cust.3,113 . 610.94 12. HOVENWEE?; Cortez, Colo".; "A.Peterson, temp, ranger. 168 . 285.80 13. MONTEZUMA CASTLE; Camp Verde, Ariz.; E.Jackson, . 10,645 . 520.00 custodian; Edwin Alberts, park ranger. 14. NATURAL BRIDGES; Blanding, Utah; Z.Johnson, cust. 741 . 2,740.00 15. NAVAJO; Tonolea, Ariz., John Wetherill, custodian;. 411 . 360.00 W.F.V.Leicht, park ranger. 16. ORGAN PIPE CACTUS; Ajo, Ariz.; no custodian. 6,200 . 330,670.00 17. PIPE SPRING; Moccasin, Ariz.; L. Heaton, cust. 2,245 . 40.00 18. RAINBOW BRIDGE; Tonolea, Ariz.; no custodian .... 222 . 160.00 19. SAGUARO; Tucson, Arizona; no custodian 20,422 . .63,284.00 20. SUNSET CRATER; Flagstaff, Ariz.; D.Jones, ranger. 6,922 . 3,040.00 21. TONTO;' Roosevelt, Ariz.; R.Richert, temp, ranger. 4,985 . 1,120.00 22. TUMACACORI; Box 797 Nogales, Ariz.; L.Caywood, . 15,289 . .10.00 custodian; Ted Cronyn, park ranger. 23. WALNUT CANYON; Flagstaff, Ariz.; P.Beaubien, jr. 13,526 . 1,873.00 'archeologist; C.Leffler, T.Maloney, S.Cataldo, and R.Beishline, CCC guides. 24. WHITE SANDS; Alamogordo, N. Mex.; Tom Charles, . 110,805 . 142,987.00 custodian; Joe Shepperd, grader operator. 25. WUPATKI; Flagstaff, Ariz.; D. Jones, park ranger. 2,754 . .35,865.00 25. YUCCA HOUSE; Cortez, Colo., A.Peterson, ranger. 172 . 9.60 TOTAL FOR 1938; . 1,143.35 square miles . 319,164 . 731,747.46 By Superintendent Frank Pinkley P FN IN G Southwcs t era Monuments, O Coolidgc, Arizona. September showed an expected decrease in the number of visitors, we having passed the crest of our visitor year in August. Of those visitors who came, too many went to the wr.ng monuments, where we do not yet have enough personnel, and could net get service. This sit uation is reflected in the fall of our percentage of contact to one of the lowont for the year. Wo needed seven more men in September than we could put on duty. The Visitor Year, which closed with September 30, brought us 319,167 visitors as compared with 291,000 in the previous year. Again we fall in behind Grand Canyon with its 330,000 this year as aginst 298,000 last year. For those visitors wo provided just under 50,C0C personally conducted field andand musemuseum trips, which, we think, will be between a third and a half of all the personally e^n^ucLod tri~c which were given for the year by the whole Park Service. This ,.s the best record wc have made thus far and we think we may be justly proud of it. Work is progressing well in the CCC camps at Bandolier, Chiricahua and Flagstaff ana the work is also- gibing well in the side camp at Casa Grande and the mobile unit at Chaco Canyon. Our trouble with these camps is that our allotments have been cut now to the point of slowing the efficiency of the camp when we have a building program going; the purchase rf materials runs the camp too close to the wind, financially speaking. Further cuts of allotments will probably force us to quit using them and turn our camps in. Financially wweo feelfeci that we arc in good shape for this time of the fiscal year andand thethe outlook for the next few months is good. In the matter of personnel, the morale seems to be good with only one or two exceptions and wo arc turning out good service. Unfortunately the boys have had to put in a lot of overtime, both in the office and on visitor contact duty. Visitor contacts will go down now at these monuments around'the 6..000 foot level anc1 above, but will begin to rise at these monuments in the southern part of the district where the winter tourist'traffic is beginning to set in. In the office, with about 8,000 pieces of mail coming and going each month and more than 200 ledger accounts to be summarized under ton symbols, to say nothing of-the four summaries to be nade under CCC, we are trying hard to got the boys free of overtime. A new man goes on within a few days which will ease the pressure. SOUTHWESTERN MONUMENTS 105 MONTHLY REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 1938 OPENING (COOT.) We note with satisfaction that the extension to Walnut Canyon National Monument has :]cne through and thus one more of our boundary problems is solved. Thanks are duo the local Forest Service officials and officials of Coconino Comity as well as The Museum of Northern Arizona, for aid in getting this extension. As we ore going to press, we got the word that we are to share in the Public Works money after all in the way of some badly needed construction. This means we can house our personnel at Wupatki, Navajo, El Horro, and Montozuur. Castle. This is a mighty fine piece of news and makes us feel that we are rarny steps along the way to ward better living conditions and administration in the Southwestern Monuments. Also this news has it that we are going to have some Public Works help at Walnut Car.yon where wo thou ;ht we were completely stymied on a water supply am.1 s:me other construction. With the completion of preliminary pirns for museum installations at White Sands and their approval by this office and that of the Western Museum Laboratories at Berkeley, the ball has started rolling toward the establishment of another first class information dispensing center. With Tom Charles'110,805 visitors this past travel year and prospeats of an increase for the yei.r to come, informational service is badly needed at that monument and wc hope that nothing happens to slow dov/n the project now that it is underway. If the plans meet the approval of the Washington office, Dorr Yeager and his highly efficient force of technicians and artists have expressed an eager ness to start putting them into more concrete form. At Tumacacori and Bandelicr, the museums are by no means finished but sufficient exhibits are in place at both to be of great assistance in putting across the stories of those areas to the visitors. During September, Cy. installer1, the glass fronts to Ids cr.ses thereby pro tecting the exhibits which had previously boon installed, and Louis took enou~h visitors through his display rooms to convince him that the museum meets with enthusiastic approval.