906 ANNUAL BEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



An ejiitome of tliis table is submitted, according to districts, as 

 follows: 



Timber. — The office has during the fiscal year handled 106 cases 

 growing out of timber trespasses, 36 of which resulted in the pay- 

 ment into the Treasury of the United States of $23,200.35. Out- 

 standing judgments in 5 cases amount to $3,598.64, which sum will 

 undoubtedly be collected early in the next fiscal year. Of these 

 cases, 31 w^ere settled by the department upon demand for the value 

 of the timber cut, taken, or destroyed, the amount thereof aggre- 

 gating $4,892.06. In 28 other cases payment was demanded, but 

 had not been made at the close of the year. Of the 37 cases reported 

 to the Attorney General for institv.tion of suit, 5 resulted in recovery 

 upon judgments for the United States of the aggregate sum of 

 $18,308.29, and in 5 judgments for $3,598.64 not yet collected. 

 The Government lost one case and the remaining cases were pending 

 in the courts at the close of the year. The Attorney General was 

 reqi'ested to institute 5 criminal cases, one of which resulted in a 

 jail sentence of 20 days. The others were pending at the close of 

 the year. Injunctions to restram continued cutting of timber were 

 asked in 5 cases, 3 of which resulted in decrees for the Government. 

 The other two were undetermined at the close of the year. 



A table giving the details of the foregoing cases will be found in a 

 subsequent part of this report, beginning at page 1066, and there is 

 here appended a resume of the cases by districts: 



In the last annual report reference was made to the case of G. D. 

 Gorus, a timber trespass on the Bitterroot National Forest in Mon- 

 tana, in which this department recommended to the Attorney Gen- 

 eral suit on the innocent basis of value of the timber after it was cut 

 at the place where it was cut, this being the rule laid down by the 

 Supreme Court of the United States in the St. Anthony Railroad 

 case. (192 U. S., 524.) The case came on for trial during the present 



