by stiles • • Comments Off on HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, December 1941
December 22, 1941 Travel this month, 174 Travel to Date, 562 General I returned to duty December 1, after a months vacation in California. [I commend] Relief Ranger Russ Mahan on his work, during his short period of Duty at…
October 22, 1941 Travel this month, 234 Travel to date, 234 Weather Local weather records show this October to have been the wettest in more than 40 years. Precipitation since October 1st is 3.78 inches. This is compared to 2.18…
by stiles • • Comments Off on HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, September 1941
September 23, 1941 Travel this month, 296 Travel for the year, 3786 WEATHER September, ushered in by high, hot winds, was unpredictable from one day to the next. The weather has been cool for this time of the year and…
by stiles • • Comments Off on HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, July 1941
July 21st, 1941 Travel this month, 494 Travel to date, 2881 Weather The usual brand of hot summer weather has been our lot, with a few days of high temperatures and occasional rainstorms. Fortunately the evenings are nearly always cool…
by stiles • • Comments Off on HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, April 1941
April 22, 1941 Dear Hugh: This report is going to be a bit brief because I am at present confined to bed with a severe cold, and am attempting to think and write clearly while lying almost flat on my…
by stiles • • Comments Off on HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, February 1941
February 17, 1941 Dear Hugh: This part of the country has at last been favored with a little sunshine and the past three weeks of heavy fog have left us with a greater appreciation of the Moab sunshine. It seems…
by stiles • • Comments Off on HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, January 1942
January 22, 1942 By Henry G Schmidt, Custodian Moab, Utah Travel this month, 63; Travel year to date, 625 Weather The new year of 1942 brought us zero temperatures and cold winds, lasting for 6 days and an abrupt change…
by stiles • • Comments Off on HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, November 1940
Dear Hugh: We have made some progress with the project to post the boundary. The entire West boundary of the monument has been posted and almost a quarter of the East boundary is now posted. This work has given me…
by stiles • • Comments Off on HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, August 1940
August 21st, 1941Mr Hugh M Miller, SuperintendentSouthwestern National MonumentsCoolidge, Arizona Dear Hugh: It’s about that time of the month again to compile my notes into the regular monthly report and I think I will try to catch time for a…
by stiles • • Comments Off on HANK SCHMIDT’S MONTHLY REPORT: Arches National Monument, June 1941
June 23rd, 1941Mr Hugh M Miller, SuperintendentSouthwestern National MonumentsCoolidge, Arizona Dear Hugh: It is hot enough today to fry eggs on the “slickrock”, but there are things to be done so I may as well ignore the heat and get…