conklin "beavertail" ??

Sounds like a "beavertail" tag, possibly manufactured or sold by "Conklin". (?)

Brass Engraveable Beavertail Logo Tags:

Love the mention of having used a "Ushikata Tracon compass". I mean a Brunton Pocket Transit would have sounded so well, slackerly, but a USHIKATA TRACON, that sounds sort of scientific and science fiction, and at the same time. :>

A "Conklin" can mean something that is really messed up.

The Cedar witness may have a scar resembling a "beavertail" marked on it.

Around here it could be called a "gator".

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Maybe the tag was set by Conklin

Any document of Ray's that I have read has a depth of detail uncommon to his peers.

Apparently he was quite fond of repairing his own instrument, had a prosthetic leg and ran his traverses by himself with a large collection of prisms on multiple rods.

I have also been told that younger men had difficulty keeping up when working in the timber. His prosthetic limb did not slow him down.

He was also licensed in West Virginia if my memory serves me correctly.

That could be.

I swear I read about timber cruisers marking witness trees with a particular symbol that was unique to them.

I have a new theory to test. Was "Conklin" a timber cruiser and did he mark trees with a beavertail symbols or with a beavertail tag as Paden mentioned?

At that time (fall of 1948), the BLM accepted applications from timber companies for the purchase of timber from specific tracts of the public domain. Ken was anxious to get started on some of these applications before winter. Tom Conklin, who as the Regional check cruiser, and his congressman Al Smith, came to Bend and guided them through a few timber sale preparations. The first cruising and marking job was a small area on Crooked River between Post and Paulina, Oregon and second was the Lost Forest in central Oregon. Archie remembers the first day on Crooked River - in order to finish and not have to return the next day, they worked until the stars were shining and be began to wonder what kind of outfit be had joined.

http://www.publicland.org/35_archives/documents/doc_1308_jensen.html

I will have to follow up with other local surveyors to see if this could be my answer.

That is some great work. Tells you more than he found a stone and set a cap.

He was licensed in WV. He held license #23.

Did Conklin make snowshoes?

Beaver tailFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Beavertail can mean:

The tail of a beaver
beavertail pistol grip: the grip style used on the Colt 1911 handgun.
BeaverTails pastry, a trademarked fried dough pastry sold throughout Canada, as well as the United States and Saudi Arabia
Opuntia basilaris, the beaver tail prickly pear
Beavertail State Park, Rhode Island, site of a famous lighthouse
Slang in meteorology for a relatively flat, broad inflow band attached to a supercell's general updraft
A type of flatbed truck fitted with a ramp or ramps at the back for loading vehicles
A parlor/observation car carried on the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha passenger trains
A type of snowshoe

I don't know about that, but I like visualizing the fried pastry option!

Nothing like finding some Krispy kremes hanging on a bearing tree! 🙂

Thanks for the confirmation.

He was very proud of his West Virginia license. I have seen some documents that he stamped with his Oregon seal and West Virginia seal.

So do you know how he got to Oregon from West Virginia?

Did he used to live and practice in WV and then moved to Oregon?

I know many of the "old-timers" with low license numbers, but I don't think I ever met him, but I confess that he name does sound familiar..

It even looks scientific!

Ushikata Tracon

I have never heard his back story, but one of the ODOT guys here used to be on his survey crew with the USFS. He may know.

If Mike Berry spots this thread he might know more details than I.

If I find out, I will definitely post more here.

What are you guys surveying in the woods for?

I'm surprised you didn't get lost.

Don't let Gary get near one of those
witness trees with a chain saw.

😉

What are you guys surveying in the woods for?

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What are you guys surveying in the woods for?

Just came across it while doing some database work.

What are you guys surveying in the woods for?

Kevin,

I have heard that there was more than one
Conklin (brothers) who were timber cruisers
for Gilchrist.

Scott