SERVICE NOTES FOR JANUARY, 1907. 



The use, by members of the Forest Service, of cards bearing their official title is 

 entirely permissible and has proved useful in field work. These cards should be on 

 plain white paper, and in size and type should conform to the accepted standard for 

 visiting cards. The official title should be printed in the lower left-hand corner of 

 the card, and should in every case be identical in statement with the title actually 

 given by appointment. 



LAW. 



Claims. 



The geologists from the Geological Survey who have been examining alleged ille- 

 gal mining claims in the Prescott Forest Reserve, in Arizona, will, when they have 

 concluded their work on that reserve, examine similar claims on the Jemez, Pecos 

 River, and Lincoln forest reserves, New Mexico. 



Their report of the examination made in the Plumas Forest Reserve is now in the 

 hands <ft the Secretary of the Interior. 



Privileges. 



The following important special privilege permits were issued by the Forester 

 between November 15 and December 20: 



Nevada Power Mining and Milling Company, Reservoir No. 1, in the Northern 

 division of the Sierra Reserve, California. 



Arizona Sanitorium and Touring Company, Sanitorium, Black Mesa Reserve, 

 Arizona. 



The following right-of-way cases, referred from the Department of the Interior to 

 the Forester for report as to whether the projects would interfere with forest-reserve 

 interests, were returned to that Department between November 15 and December 

 20 with favorable reports by the Forester: 



Mary L. Patton, reservoir; Leon Lake Ditch Company, reservoir and ditch; H. E. 

 Roberts et al. , reservoir ; Surface Creek Ditch and Reservoir Company, reservoir ; 

 George Enos and John Hixon, reservoirs, all in the Battlement Mesa Reserve, Colo- 

 rado ; B. C. Johnson, ditch, and James Head and H. E. Snyder, reservoir, Madison 

 Reserve, Montana; Sheep Creek Irrigation Company, reservoir and ditch, Uinta 

 Reserve, Utah; Bear Creek Water Association, reservoir, Bitter Root Reserve, Mon- 

 tana; F. A. Kreiger, ditch, Yellowstone Reserve (Absaroka), Montana; John B. 

 Heilman, reservoir and ditch, and Fullington & Grace, reservoir, San Juan Reserve, 

 Colorado. 



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