Timber Sale Contract Clauses. 175 



TELEPHONE LINES. 



40. (a) All telephone lines shall be constructed under free special use 

 permit issued by the Forest Supervisor which will provide that free use 

 of such lines shall be allowed to Forest officers for official business; 

 that no stumpage will be charged for poles on lines which in the judgment 

 of the Forest Supervisor are of sufficient value to the Forest Service. All 

 other telephone lines, trails, and main traveled roads traversing the cut- 

 ting area shall be kept open and free at all times from obstruction by 

 logs, brush, and debris caused by logging operations ; and all telephone 

 lines, trails and roads damaged or destroyed by logging operations shall 

 be repaired or rebuilt as required by the Forest officer in charge, (w. y. 

 p., Sitgreaves, Apache, D 3 1912.) 



Detailed directions (a) such as this may obviate the ordinary 

 special use permit. 



FIRE LINES. 



41. (a) A fire line having a width of not less than feet shall 



be cleared by the purchaser of all inflammable material, except stumps, 

 whenever required by the Forest officer, along the boundaries of the cut- 

 ting area and around groups of seed trees ; such tire lines shall be con- 

 structed in a manner that will be satisfactory to the Forest officer, (m.) 



(b) On the borders of the cutting area, except next to Section 29, a 

 strip 60 feet wide is to be cleared of brush and all inflammable material 

 before burning, (w. w. p., c, Kaniksu, D i, 191 1.) 



(c) All stubs of unmerchantable dead Douglass fir trees over 15 feet 

 high within 100 feet of the fire line shall be cut, and all dead Douglas 

 fir stubs or dead trees over 30 feet in height, shall be cut whenever they 

 occur on the cutting area except when in the judgment of the Forest 

 officer any such cutting is not necessary. (D. f. w. r. c, w. h., Sno- 

 qualmie, D 6, 191 1.) 



(d) Not to exceed four miles of fire line of a maximum width of 35 

 feet, along the south and east boundaries of the cutting area, or where- 

 ever on the cutting area the Forest officer in charge may prescribe, shall 

 be cleared by the purchaser. All brush, logs and debris, both that already 

 on the ground and that resulting from the logging, shall be removed from 

 this fire line. (D. f., w. r. c, w. h., Snoqualmie, D 6, 1911.) 



(e) All snags, stubs, or unmerchantable dead trees over 15 feet high on 

 the cut-over area shall be felled, and all tops and inflammable material 

 piled for burning, unless, in the judgment of the Forest officer in charge, 

 such cutting is not necessary. If any snags, stubs, or unmerchantable trees 

 are felled so that they lie closer than four feet from unmarked trees, a 

 section of at least six feet on either side of such unmarked trees shall be 

 removed, (w. y. p., D. f. larch.; Whitman, D 6, 1911.) 



In Washington where there is clear cutting and burning, fire 

 lines take the place of the ordinary methods of brush disposal, 

 but care is taken not to destroy seed trees. 



LOCATION OF IMPROVEMENTS. 



42. (a) All construction work, including railroad, mill, etc., necessary 

 for initial logging operations shall be completed as soon as possible and 

 not later than two years from date of final contract is prepared. (W. 

 y. p. Sitgreaves — Apache, D 3, 1812.) 



(b) The character and location of all roads, and the means, methods 



