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Express and Freight Addresses 



In making requisition for supplies supervisors and other members of the 

 Service in the field should send to the Chief of Maintenance definite instruc- 

 tions giving the exact points to which freight, express, and mail shipments 

 should be made. This will greatly expedite the receipt of supplies. There has 

 been considerable delay caused by shipping supplies by freight and express to 

 points which are not situated on any railroad. In such cases, transportation 

 companies sometimes deliver the goods to the nearest point on the railroad, 

 when specific directions are not given concerning them. 



OFFICE OF LAISDS. 



Letters to Supervising Engineers, Reclamation Service 



The Reclamation Service has requested that all letters to the supervising 

 engineers of that Service be addressed to them by title and not by name; as, 

 for example, " Supervising Engineer, Reclamation Service, Phoenix, Ariz." For- 

 est supervisors will carefully observe this request, in order to avoid delays 

 when supervising engineers are changed. 



The engineering divisions of the Reclamation Service and the addresses of 

 the supervising engineers are as follows : 



Southern Division Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Southern Cali- 

 fornia ; Supervising Engineer, Phoenix, Ariz. 



Pacific Division Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada ; 

 Supervising Engineer, Portland, Oreg. 



Northern Division Montana, North Dakota, and Northern Wyoming ; Super- 

 vising Engineer, Huntley, Mont. 



Central Division Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Nebraska, and 

 Southern Wyoming; Supervising Engineer, Montrose, Colo. 



Idaho Division Idaho ; Supervising Engineer, Boise, Idaho. 



Reports on Administrative Sites 



When the examiner of tracts of land under the act of June 11, 1906, recom- 

 mends the tract for an administrative site, the supervisor, upon receipt of the 

 report, should, if he approves the recommendation of the examiner, submit 

 a report on Form 271, accompanied by a tracing linen plat of the site, according 

 . to the instructions in part 4 of Service Order No. 23. 



This will make it unnecessary to return the examiner's report to the super- 

 visor, and will greatly expedite the handling of the reports on administrative 

 sites by the Section of Boundaries. 



Reports of Improvements Upon Administrative Sites 



All reports which furnish information in regard to improvements upon 

 administrative sites should be accompanied by a duplicate carbon copy, in order 

 that the facts regarding the improvements may be made of record in the Office 

 of Engineering as well as in the Office of Lands. 



Administrative Sites Surveys 



The attention of supervisors is called to the importance of having all surveys 

 for ranger stations or other purposes made as accurate as possible. Many re- 

 quests for withdrawals are sent in which can not be approved, on account of 

 mistakes in the field notes or in the plat, and must be returned to the field offi- 

 cer for correction. The most frequent errors are the following : Failure to give 

 size of corners, whether of wood or stone ; omission of the statement that mark- 

 ings are placed in a blaze on a tree : failure to give two witness points ; failure 

 to state size of mounds at corners ; failure to describe how the corner is placed 



