SERVICE NOTES FOE JANUARY. 



These notes contain instructions and necessary information to forest 

 officers, and will therefore be carefully read and kept on file for 

 reference. 



EDITOR. 



Agricultural Yearbook 



A limited supply of the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture 

 for 1917, which will be issued probably in April, 1918, is allotted to the 

 Forest Service for its members. Copies will be supplied as in former 

 years to district foresters and supervisors for their personal use. 

 Other forest officers may have personal copies by sending their names 

 to the Forester. Requests will be filed and filled in the order of their 

 receipt as long as the supply lasts. Copies will be supplied as usual 

 by the Library for district libraries. 



GRAZING. 



Grazing Preferences Must Not Be Sold. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has issued a circular under date of 

 January 2, 1918, notifying all permittees that the sale or transfer of 

 grazing privileges for a consideration is contrary to the regulations 

 and warning them that the payment of any bonus or the giving of any 

 consideration to a permittee for the purpose of securing the filing of a 

 waiver of the grazing privilege upon the National Forests is prohibited 

 and will be sufficient cause for the revocation of permit or forfeiture 

 of all grazing preferences based upon the purchase of permitted stock. 



LAW. 



OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



Law Cases in District 1 



United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. ; Special 

 use permit, Coeur d'Alene National Forest. October 13, 1917, the rail- 

 way company deposited to the credit of the United States the sum of 

 $89,264. of which $68,489 was for damages and $20,775 interest. 



United States v. William Forster : Slacker. Case reported by Forest 

 Service. October 3, 1917, Forster sentenced to three months in jail. 



United States v. George Gleed Estate : Grazing trespass, civil, Beaver- 

 head National Forest. Case closed upon payment of $152.88, value of 

 forage consumed. 



United States v. Lane Lumber Co. : Timber trespass, civil, Coeur 

 d'Alene National Forest. Proceedings in bankrupt? ; amount involved, 



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