SERYICE NOTES FOR MARCH, 1907. 

 LAW. 



Claims. 



The geologists from the Geological Survey who have been examining alleged 

 illegal mining claims in the Chiricahua Reserve, Arizona, have finished their work 

 in that reserve and have been sent to examine such claims in the Gila and Big 

 Burros reserves, New Mexico. 



Privileges. 



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 January 15 and February 15 

 with favorable reports by the Forester: 



City of Grand Junction, pipe line, Battlement Mesa Reserve, Colorado; William 

 Van Pelt, reservoir, Battlement Mesa Reserve; Parker Basin Reservoir Company, 

 reservoirs, Battlement Mesa Reserve; Coon Creek Reservoir Company, reservoirs, 

 Battlement Mesa Reserve; J. E. Hanson, reservoir. Battlement Mesa Reserve; J. 

 Hartley Poage, reservoir, San Juan Reserve, Colorado; Fanny I. Todd, reservoir, 

 Gunnison Reserve, Colorado; Branch Mint Railroad Company, railroad, Black Hills 

 Reserve, South Dakota. 



Class B Sales. 



Since the law definitely limits the amount of timber which can be sold without 

 advertisement to a stum page value of not more than $100, great care should be taken 

 in making Class B sales that the value of the timber cut does not exceed $100. It is 

 better to make a sale a little under this limit, to allow for a possible excess cutting. 

 Where through poor estimating th6re is an overcut, the excess should be charged to 

 the original sale in Class B as in Class C sales. 



OFFICE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



Free-Use Business. 



The annual reports on free-use business show that, in round numbers, $75,000 

 worth of material has been granted to 15,000 permittees. The Wenaha Reserve in 

 eastern Washington and Oregon leads with a total valuation of over $5,000. The 

 Henrys Lake, Weiser, and Bear River forest reserves allgranted over $3,500 worth 

 of material. The minimum amount for any one reserve was about $5. Naturally 

 those reserves which are situated in the heavily timbered parts of Oregon and Wash- 

 ington have the least free-use business, while the figures given above show that 

 reserves which handle the greatest number of free-use permits are located in eastern 

 Washington, southern Idaho, Colorado, and Utah. In the Southwest there are few 

 reserves which granted over $1,000 worth of material, although on most of them the 

 free-use business was of great importance to the settlers living near the reserves. 



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