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involved that it has been treated in a separate paper.'' When land 

 and small timber are being acquired subject to the right of the owner 

 to remove the larger timber within a definite period, they do not have 

 the same value as would cut-over land from which the removal of 

 the large timber had already been completed. The earning value 

 of such land is greatly reduced or entirely negative until by the 

 cutting of the reserved old timber it is possible for the small timber 

 to grow over the entire tract. At the same time the old timber is 

 receiving the benefit of protection against fire. Theoretically the 

 price for a tract acquired in this status would be its value as cut-over 

 land discounted at current rate of interest for one-half of the period 

 of the timber contract. 



Personnel 



All-the-year-round cruising is hard work. Stations are frequent])- 

 changed; the men have no homes or home life. This is particularly 

 trying to married men. After two years, or about the time a cruiser 

 should be efficient — should have learned something of logging costs 

 and grades of lumber and have acquired considerable adaptability — 

 he becomes keen, if not for office and administrative* work, at least 

 for some change in assignment. Any change seems to hold out more 

 future than volume cruising. This unrest is alleviated as much as 

 possible by securing, when conditions permit, slight or temporary 

 changes in character of work and by employing such time as is not 

 actually required in cruising in the preparation of volume 'tables. This, 

 wdiile affording a change in the character of field work, tends to 

 qualify the men better for cruisers. Since the men engaged in the 

 cruise are either new men or those who have not been selected for 

 administrative work, they are often apt to allows the arduous nature 

 of the employment to overshadow its responsibilities. During the 

 past four years the value of lands approved for purchase has 

 amounted approximately to a million and a half dollars a year. Each 

 of the eight field parties engaged in the field examination of this land 

 has been responsible" for the valuation of lands amounting to approxi- 

 mately $200,000 a year. A chief of party who has been in continuous 

 service for five years has conseqMcntly" cruised land to the value of 

 close to a million dollars — actually more than this, since a larger 



* "Relative Cost of Operating Large and Small Timber." Forestry Quarterly, 

 September, 1916. Southern Lumberman, December 23, 1916. 



