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 BRANCH OF SILVICULTURE. 



OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT. 



Class A Sales 



Attention is called to Regulation 24, page 63 of The Use Book. Super- 

 visors should not fail to recommend all Forest officers, to whom they desire that 

 authority be given, to make Class A sales. The price at which the timber is 

 to be sold in Class A and B sales is exceedingly important and Forest officers 

 should be guided by the instructions under " Prices " on page 75 of The Use 

 Book. Favorable prices obtained in Class C sales may be taken as a basis. 



Hereafter a map will not be required in Class A sales of green timber where 

 the value is $20 or less, but one should, in each case where the value of the tim- 

 ber exceeds $20, be prepared and filed in the proper folder as before. 



Advertised Class B Sales 



The circular of instructions which was issued on the method of handling 

 advertised Class B sales, through an oversight, does not require supervisors to 

 send to the Forester copies of the application, map, timber estimate, and forest 

 description, and rules for marking. It was intended that this should be required 

 by the instructions, and supervisors are requested to forward copies of these 

 papers as soon as prepared. 



Free Use 



In the reprint of The Use Book, Regulation 22, page 50, will read as follows : 



All free-use material may be sawed, and all except green saw timber 

 may be cut for the permittee by an agent, but the work so done must not 

 be paid for by a share of the material. When a permittee is physically 

 incapable of doing the work, he may hire an agent to cut green saw timber, 

 but can not pay fpr the work by a share of the material. 



This is a slight change in the wording of the regulation as it appeared in 

 the first issue of The Use Book. It is not intended by this regulation, as it 

 first appeared, that persons physically incapable of doing the work can pay 

 for it with a share of the material, but simply that they can hire the work 

 done. It is necessary, of course, that payment should be made otherwise than 

 with a part of the material. A few of the officers seem to have misunderstood 

 this regulation. 



Extension of Time in Timber Sales 



Before granting an extension of time in Class A or B timber-sale contracts, 

 supervisors should consider carefully the current stumpage rates. A reasonable 

 time should be allowed in the original contract for the cutting and removal 

 of the timber, and, as a rule, the stumpage should be raised to the current 

 price if an extension of time is allowed. 



Information of Informal Applications 



When informal applications for large amounts of timber are received, super- 

 visors are requested to inform the Forester promptly in order that timber-sale 

 men may, if advisable, be detailed temporarily to assist in preparing the timber 

 estimate and forest description. 



