38 NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL TIMBER SALES. 



No sale will be so large as to endanger the future local supply. 

 If data are not available the future needs of the 

 ne ^ v48lon for local locality should be investigated. The limited supply 

 on some Forests will prevent sales except for local 

 use, but every effort will be made to satisfy legitimate demands. 

 Sales for large amounts will be made when necessary to encourage 

 size of sales new P urcna . sers > to establish new industries, to main- 



tain established local industries, or to aid in local 

 development. 



The size of a sale will in the main be determined by the cost of 

 the improvements required to market the timber, with a view to 

 restricting the necessary investment for such purposes per unit of 

 material to be handled to a reasonable amount. 



A sale may be apportioned at the highest price bid among different 

 Mono oi bidders, if desirable and practicable, to prevent 



monopoly. 



Classes A and B sales will usually be made by amount. Class C 

 Thecuttin area s ^ es ma y include all the merchantable timber on a 

 given area, which must be designated by unmistaka- 

 ble natural boundaries or by blazed lines. In either case, all small, 

 isolated, and reasonably accessible bodies of timber, which if left would 

 not be salable, will be included. Except where the cutting area is 

 bounded by patented lands or valid claims, it is usually very unde- 

 sirable to define the boundaries by legal subdivisions. 



If the application includes all the timber on a watershed or slope 

 the cutting area can be bounded by topographic features, such as 

 ridges and streams. If only a part of the timber on a slope or water- 

 shed is wanted, the cutting area should not be limited to the most 

 desirable. It is often better to cut one slope of a valley instead of 

 the most accessible timber on both. When successive sales are made 

 from the same watershed or locality the cutting areas will either be 

 contiguous or so arranged that the timber left may be sold without 

 difficulty. 



In determining the cutting area for any large sale, small areas which 

 will probably be needed to supply local demands must be excluded 

 and the lines plainly designated. 



Timber included in a sale upon which mineral locations have been 

 made after the execution of the timber-sale contract 

 n tiaaati * wiU be cut as Government timber. If the location 

 was made after the application was received and before 

 the contract was executed, and was evidently made to interfere with 

 the timber sale, cutting must be suspended, but a report on the claim 

 will be forwarded immediately to the district forester, who will at 

 once report the matter to the chief of field division, with a request 

 for speedy action to determine the validity of the claim. 



It was decided by the United States circuit court for the district 



insect-infested ^ South Dakota, in Lewis v. Garlock (168 Fed., 153). 



timber on mining that the United States may sell insect-infested timber 



from a mining claim that has not passed to patent 



when the timber is a menace to that on adjoining National Forest 



land. Accordingly Forest officers may dispose of insect-infested 



timber from unperfected mining claims when such timber is an actual 



menace to the Forest. 



The following policy should govern payments for timber cut from 

 claims : 



