[Ron] So he just didn’t want to deal with Ralph?
He just couldn’t handle Ralph. He was a damn fine Chief Ranger. He moved on up to Coulee and then to the Seattle Office.
So, at that point Einar Johnson came in?
They picked Einar and moved him up there. Einar was hard headed enough to pretty well deal with it, but I would referee between he and Ralph once in awhile. Einar pretty well did the job.
Had the concession dorm idea been brought up during the time you were there? I know it was started later, well after you left.
It started, I think it was under construction, if I remember right. We lost the battle of moving everything out, as far as the concessionaire goes.
Had the concession dorm idea been brought up during the time you were there? I know it was started later, well after you left.
It started, I think it was under construction, if I remember right. We lost the battle of moving everything out, as far as the concessionaire goes.
I know there was one idea about vacating a lot of Steel Circle for the concessionaire and then moving the Park operation down to Fort Klamath.
Right, that was what we were going to do, but we lost that battle. But I wanted to move the rest of all the houses and the facilities out the valley anyway and move it down to, what was the name of that area?
[Bill] The Panhandle, right at the south entrance.
South yard.
[Bill] That whole section in there.
Well, you had four feet of snow instead of twelve and you know it made a lot of difference. I mean you can live there, really not any strain at that elevation.
[Bill] It was convenient too, people could run to town.
An interesting side light on that is when I ran into Lawrence Merriam (1). He said, “What did you ever do with those houses in Steel Circle?” I said, “Well it is in the master plan to get rid of them and move them south.” He said, “You know, that was one of the biggest mistakes I ever made, was letting those damn houses get built up there.”
