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The reports of assistant lumbermen should be addressed to the Forester and 

 transmitted through the supervisor, who should not hesitate to comment freely 

 on such reports. 



Advertising Timber Sales 



It appears that in a number of cases supervisors have not taken the best 

 means for advertising contemplated timber sales. Care should be exercised in 

 recommending the paper best fitted to bring notices of sale before possible pur- 

 chasers, especially lumbermen, and efforts should be made in other ways to 

 give sales due publicity. When there are good chances for competitive bids and 

 in very large and important sales the notice of sale should be published in two 

 or more papers or lumber trade journals. 



Forest officers should be very careful to follow the instructions given in 

 National Forest Order No. 18 in regard to the recommendation of newspapers 

 in which notices of sale are to appear. Unnecessary delay has occurred in a 

 number of sales from failure on the part of the officers in charge to recommend 

 newspapers when sending in applications and from their omitting to make the 

 further recommendations called for by the National Forest Order. In every 

 case the recommendations should give the exact name of the newspaper, its 

 place of publication, and the edition in which the notice of sale should be 

 inserted. 



Reports of Timber Cut- 

 Forest officers should see that all values and totals are filled in completely in 

 all "Reports of Timber cut" (Form 820) submitted. When different species or 

 green and dead timber are sold at the same stumpage rate it is unnecessary to 

 keep separate scale records for each. 



Free-Use Reports 



Free-Use reports for the year 1906 have all been received. They show that 

 15,071 permits were issued, covering 4,800,000 feet of green timber, 3,290,000 

 feet of dead timber, 6,982,000 feet of mixed material, 9,947 cords of green wood, 

 55,000 feet of dead wood, 35,000 feet of mixed, 6,700,000 poles, 375,000 posts. 

 The total valuation is $76,854. 



It is very evident from the foregoing figures that the supervisors of the various 

 National Forests should discourage, so far as possible, the disposal of green 

 timber under the " free-use " privilege. 



Error in April Field Program 



Attention is called to an error in the Field Program for April. In the dis- 

 cussion of the revised Form 820 it is stated : " It is intended that if a case is 

 ready for closing a negative answer under this paragraph is sufficient." The 

 mistake occurred in the use of the word " negative " instead of " affirmative." 



Timber Sales in March 



During the month of March, 1907, a total of approximately 25,000,000 feet 

 of timber was applied for, valued at $81,700. One hundred and thirty-five mil- 

 lion feet of timber were actually sold, and in value amounted to $406,626. The 

 actual amount of timber cut was 11,390,000 feet, valued at $26,000. The latter 



