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New Form for Report on Timber and Stone Entries 



A new form, No. 320, for reporting on timber and stone entries has been pre- 

 pared and is now ready for distribution. Hereafter Forest officers will be 

 required to use this form in the investigation of all timber and stone claims. 

 Supervisors should promptly make requisition on the Washington office for a 

 number of the forms sufficient to report on timber and stone claims in their 

 respective Forests. 



New Edition of Report on Mill-site Claims- 

 Attention is called to a new edition of Form 175 (Report on Mill-site Claims). 

 Supervisors should at once make requisition for supplies of the new edition, 

 and discontinue the use of the old form. 



Recording 1 Patented Claims 



Forest officers, immediately on receiving the formal notice of the General 

 Land Office that a claim has been patented or finally canceled of record, 

 should enter the fact on their title maps and make a record of it on the " claim " 

 card in their files for the particular tract. 



Reports on Mining 1 Claims 



There is some misunderstanding as to the circumstances under which mining 

 claims should be reported upon. Reports should be made on supposed invalid 

 locations, to which an active claim is being asserted, if the claimants are inter- 

 fering with timber sales or otherwise injuring National Forest interests. If 

 a sufficient description or identification of such locations can not be otherwise 

 secured, supervisors should get the necessary information from the county 

 records. 



No reports are necessary on locations which have been abandoned, or of 

 which no use is being made. 



Reports on "valid mining locations should not be made until application for 

 patent is filed, unless claimants are cutting the timber or using the surface for 

 any purpose other than mineral development, or are doing some other act 

 indicative of bad faith or injurious to National Forest interests. 



In all cases prompt examination should be made and a report forwarded to 

 the Forester, as soon as it is ascertained that application for patent has been 

 filed. 



Instructions under Regulation 4 The Use Book- 

 Forest officers should exercise the greatest care to observe the instructions 

 under Regulation 4 regarding notices of final proof, and must in every case 

 return the notice to the local land office in due time. The Forester's attention 

 has been called by the General Land Office to reports from some of the local 

 Land officers that Forest officers in some cases have neglected to return the 

 notices properly indorsed, until after the date set for final proof. 



Boundaries 



The proclamation creating the Ozark National Forest, Ark., with an area of 

 917,944 acres, was signed by the President on March 6, 1908. 



The proclamation eliminating 109,312 acres from the Lincoln National Forest, 

 N. Mex., was signed on March 3, 1908. The area of this Forest is now 518,123 

 acres. 



