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OFFICE OF ORGANIZATION. 



Clerks 



As tbe services of a clerk (stenographer and typewriter) are necessary in 

 many of tbe offices of the Supervisors, the Civil Service Commission has con- 

 sented to hold examinations for this position in the Western States having 

 National Forests. These examinations will probably be held some time in May. 

 If it becomes necessary to employ a clerk before civil-service eligibles are avail- 

 able, they may be temporarily employed or appointed. 



Transfers of Rangers and Guards 



Officers in charge of more than one National Forest are allowed to transfer 

 their Rangers and Guards from one Forest to another when the occasion de- 

 mands, but the Forester should in every case be notified at once, so that the sal- 

 ary of the man may be charged to the National Forest on which he is really 

 working. In the past some confusion hp.s resulted from failure on the part of 

 officers in charge to notify the Forester. 



Marking Hatchets 



Upon the urgent recommendation of the expert lumberman, who insists that 

 a long handle put into the marking hatchet makes it as effective an implement 

 as the marking ax, it has been decided to buy no more marking axes. Those 

 who have use for a marking ax are requested to try using a long-handled mark- 

 ing hatchet, and to report the fact if it is not thoroughly satisfactory. 



The efforts of the Instrument Committee to standardize the field equipment will 

 be greatly helped if all who have had experience with the marking ax will 

 report their opinions of it. 



Engineering Notes 



Mr. W. E. Herring, Constructing Engineer, has returned from a two weeks' 

 trip to Salt Lake City and Denver, where he was in consultation with three 

 leading telephone companies in that section of the country in regard to contracts 

 for special rates over their lines, flat rates for instruments at the various 

 exchanges, and other concessions of a like nature. 



As rapidly as the detailed estimates for permanent improvements are 

 received from the supervisors they are being checked over, and the construction 

 of the work is being authorized as necessity warrants. Numerous requests 

 have been received from the supervisors, but in many cases they have not been 

 in detail, and for this reason it has been necessary to delay action on their 

 requests until detailed estimates have been returned. It is expected that 

 within the next two weeks several hundred miles of telephone line will be 

 authorized, and the work will be started at the earliest possible moment. 



