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OPERATION 



Special -Use Permits to Applicants under Act of June 11, 1906 



On November 14, 1908, the Acting Secretary of the Interior informed the Secretary 

 of Agriculture that an entryman under the Act of June 11, 1906, could be given credit, 

 when making final proof, for the actual residence maintained by him on the land 

 under special-use permit prior to his entry. By letter of January 12, 1910, to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior says he believes the opinion 

 expressed in the letter of November 14, 1908, was erroneous, and that he can not con- 

 sider as residence, within the meaning of the homestead law, occupancy of lands by 

 persons under special-use permits prior to the opening of the lands to settlement in 

 the manner described in the Act of June 11, 1906. Supervisors may continue to issue 

 special-use permits in cases of this character, but the clause stating that credit for 

 residence under the permit will be allowed by the Department of the Interior should 

 be omitted. 

 Settlement: Listing Lands within Limits of Railroad Grant 



By letter of January 21, 1910, to the Secretary of Agriculture, the First Assistant 

 Secretary of the Interior decided that he could not open to entry under the Act of 

 June 11, 1906, an unsurveyed tract of land located within the primary limits of the 

 grant to the Northern Pacific Railway Company. It was alleged that the land when 

 surveyed would be within an odd section. 

 The Targhee National Forest Divided 



The increase in the business of the Targhee National Forest has necessitated the 

 division of this Forest and the establishment of a new administrative unit, to be 

 called the "Palisade division of the Targhee." Dan S. Pack, formerly supervisor of 

 the Nebo Forest, has been placed in charge of the new unit, with headquarters at St. 

 Anthony, Idaho. Supervisor David Barnett remains in charge of the northern por- 

 tion of the Targhee. The northern division will continue to be known as the "Tar- 

 ghee National Forest." 

 Designations on Circular Letters 



In mimeorgaphed or manifolded circular letters from the District offices to super, 

 visors it is not practicable to give the names of individual Forests in the subject 

 designations, and in such designations the word "District" is used. It should be 

 understood that when a letter bearing a designation of this kind is received by a 

 supervisor it immediately becomes a Forest letter, and in the reply the name of the 

 Forest should be substituted in the designation for the word "District;" e. g., the 

 reply to a circular letter designated "G, District, Studies, Range Improvement," 

 should be designated "G, Pike, Studies, Range Improvement." 

 Recommendations Affecting Change of Status 



A number of recommendations affecting change of status have recently reached 

 Washington from the Districts long after the action recommended became effective. 

 Such delays subject the Service to just criticism , and are wholly unnecessary. In every 

 case the recommendation must leave the office in which it originates not later than 

 the date on which the change actually takes place, and as far as possible in advance 



