SERVICE NOTES FOR DECEMBER, 1906. 



LAW. 



Claims- 



The investigation of alleged illegal mining claims will be extended to the 

 Prescott Reserve, Arizona, during the month of December. The work will be 

 performed by Geologists L. G. Gillett, W. L. Walker, and S. H. Ball. They will 

 probably examine claims of like character in the Lincoln Reserve, New Mexico, 

 after concluding work in the Prescott. 



Trespass. 



The Forester has directed the supervisor of the Tahoe Forest Reserve, Cal., 

 to seize any timber cut from the vacant odd sections of land returned as 

 mineral by the survey, within JLO miles of the line of the Central Pacific Rail- 

 road. 



This timber was originally granted to the railroad company by the acts 

 of July 1, 1862, and July 2, 1864, and the Forester held, as a basis for his 

 directions to the supervisor, that the failure of the railroad company to remove 

 the timber within a reasonable time terminated its rights, since it could not 

 be presumed that Congress intended to grant to the railroad company a per- 

 petual easement in the land for the purpose of growing timber. 



This decision will apply to timber on mineral odd sections within the 10-mile 

 limit of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads. 



The Attorney-General has been requested to begin suits in the following cases : 

 Orenshaw, saloon, Alexander Archipelago Reserve; Thomas Shannon, contempt 

 proceedings to punish for violation of injunction, Little Belt Reserve; Merin 

 Marshall, fire, Weiser Reserve. 



In the case of J. H. Schworer, privilege trespasser in the Bitter Root 

 Reserve, the Forester rejected the application of a defiant trespasser for the 

 classification, listing, and opening to homestead entry under the act of June 11, 

 1906, of land held by him in trespass. 



Simon Romero was arrested on October 28 for grazing trespass on the Jemez 

 Reserve and held in default of bail in the sum of $250. On November 21 

 Romero's offer of $108.15, in settlement of the civil damages, was accepted. 



In the following cases offers of settlement for the civil damages have been 

 accepted: M. H. Knapp, ejectment, Blue Mountains Reserve; Benton R. 



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