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usages. For example, sample logs may be scaled ; brush piled or 

 scattered ; or areas marked to demonstrate how the timber must 

 be cut. The most convenient method of demonstration is to take 

 the prospective purchaser over an area v\rhich has been cut over 

 under similar regulations. (See clause 30 d.) It is of course 

 vital that it be clearly understood that minor changes in methods 

 may be necessary during the term of the contract; consequently 

 many of the rules are "blind," putting immense authority and dis- 

 cretion in the hands of the approving officer. Yet this authority 

 is rarely, if ever abused. The Forest Service has maintained such 

 a high standard of personnel that a case of "hold up" in en- 

 forcing contracts too rigidly has never come to my attention. 



The policy, requirements, and forms for advance cutting, pay- 

 ments, deposits, refunds, transfers, modifications, cancellations, 

 etc., are given in the Manual and will not be treated in this article 

 which deals chiefly with the contract itself. As already explained, 

 Form 202 is now standard except when the short form contract 

 is used. Form 202 follows : 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 FOREST SERVICE 



TIMBER SALE 



National Forest 



(Date of application) 

 (I or we) (If copartnership, "We, and 



partners, doing business under the firm name and style of ") 



(If corporation, "A corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State (or 

 Territory) of , having an office and principal place 



of business at ") 



of , State of hereby 



to purchase 



(In applica- 

 tion "apply," in final agreement "agree") (In final agreement only, "In accord- 

 ance with my (or our) bid submitted in pursuance of the notice of sale of certain 

 timber in the National Forest, duly given by publication as required 

 by law," if sale has been advertised and bid accepted. If private sale, when timber 

 has been advertised and no satisfactory bid has been received, "at private sale, cer- 

 tain timber within the National Forest , 

 duly advertised for sale in the , a newspaper of general 



