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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 

 UNITED STATES RECLAMATION SERVICE, 



Washington, D. (\, November IS, 190S. 

 The FORESTER? Forest Service. 



SIR: The attention of this office has been called by the supervising engineer in 

 charge of reclamation operations in Washington, Oregon, and upper California to 

 requests by forest supervisors for maps indicating the watersheds in these regions 

 which are not involved in operations contemplated by the Reclamation Service, in 

 order that the work of the Forest Service may be simplified with regard to the issu- 

 ance of special-use permits. 



In this connection I desire to state that although the supervising engineer regards 

 this as a feasible plan and is anxious to comply with such request at the earliest 

 opportunity, it is apprehended that there may be some delay in the preparation of 

 such map. 



Under instructions of the Secretary, investigations are being made of available 

 water power with a view to recommending withdrawal of the power sites involved. 

 Until these investigations are completed it wiy be impracticable to designate any 

 watershed which will be exempt from examination by the Reclamation engineers. 



It is therefore requested that the present plan of referring applications for special- 

 use pe/mits to the project engineers may be continued until such time as it may be 

 possible to prepare a map showing more definitely the area to which reclamation 

 operations are confined. 

 Very respectfully, 



MORRIS BIEN, Acting Director. 



Settlement: Surveys 



The following corrections should be made on page 21 of Instructions and Decisions 

 Affecting National Forest Lands, Part II: At the end of the sixth line, F. S. M. H. 



instead of ^JW ; in the seventh line, R instead of~fl 



W A W 



Administrative rights of way 



It is very important that all examiners of tracts applied for under the act of June 

 11, 1906, follow the instruction in the first paragraph on page 53 of The Use Book. 

 In many instances the examiners fail to submit the required recommendations for 

 withdrawals, on Forms 271 and 220, and it is feared that some examiners are failing 

 even to suggest withdrawals for logging roads and other administrative purposes in 

 many cases where they should be made. 



The following method of surveying roadways through land applied for under the 

 act of June 11, 1908, is recommended to supervisors: 



The initial point should be tied to some established corner in reference to the 

 claim, or a course run and distance chained from some established point of the claim 

 boundary to an established point on the road. In running out the road survey 

 course and distance from one turning point to another should be given, and at each 

 angle turned a durable monument should be placed, marked, and witnessed. A 

 plain R is sufficient. Witnesses should be far enough away from the center line to 

 be outside the roadway. It is not necessary to close in the roadway, placing two 

 monuments at each angle. The single survey line well tied and rnonumented is all 

 that is necessary. It is important, however, to give in the notes the proposed width 

 each side of this line; and natural features crossed might also be noted. It should 

 be remembered that a monument of durable wood buried flush with the surface will 

 withstand the wear of road traffic indefinitely. 



Residence under Forest Homestead Act of June 11, 1906 



The First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, in a letter to the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, dated November 4, 1908, has ruled that, under section 1 of the forest home- 

 stead act of June 11, 1906, a person who is permitted to occupy National Forest lands 

 for agricultural purposes by special-use permit, and who afterwards makes entry of 

 the land under the act, is entitled to make final proof when he can show five years' 

 actual residence, even though a portion of the residence was during the time when he 

 was occupying the lands under the special-use permit. 



