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removed from such valid claims or patented lands unless the purchaser 

 shall, within 30 days notice that the timber has been scaled, file with the 

 Forest officer in charge of the sale, a receipt signed by the claimant or 

 owner showing that the full contract price has been paid to him or a 

 National Bank certificate showing that the purchaser has deposited the 

 full amount in a National Bank convenient to the claimant or owner, and 

 in his name. All operations under this sale will be suspended by the 

 Forest officer in charge if the purchaser neglects or refuses to file such 

 receipt of certificate. (B. B.) 



These clauses were used in early contracts for the sale of 

 insect-infester timber in the "Black Hills ;" they are based upon 

 a knowledge of the life habit of the bark beetle "dendroctonus" 

 which has damaged western yellow pine. 



Many of the foregoing clauses will be modified and the word- 

 ing changed as Forest Service contracts are improved ; at pres- 

 ent, however, this compilation may be of interest to officers on 

 National Forests and also show other foresters and lumbermen 

 exactly what the Forest Service requires in its conservative log- 

 ging. They will be of considerable historical interest years hence ; 

 in the meantime they will undoubtedly be gradually standardized 

 for all districts. 



