as bad as it looks* It did not cost anything like this amount 

 bo coll timber on the Eldorado - Why? 



1. The old form of service report included under timber 

 salec, Reconnaissance, Trespass and Timber Settlement, with 

 no segregation of the different lines of work. 



2. A certain proportion of the "catch-all" miscellaneous 

 executive duties, was also charged to sales. 



3. We had no opportunity at this time to charge going 

 to and from snail isolated sales to patrol. 



To coine back to the $7.68, a largo amount of the 

 work done on the Eldoredo during the fiscal year 1912 was 

 trespass work. One big case was partly worked up -and bo- 

 tweon 6 and 7 million feet scaled up. Another case was 

 worked up and settled for something over $600. A third 

 case against the defunct Eldorado Lunbor Company probably 

 never will be sottlo.d. 



Considerable intensive reconnaissance work was 

 done, including office work on the figures. 



Plans for reducing this cost in the futnro. Costs 

 aro necessarily high Just GO long as wo have small isolated 

 sales. Patrol or Protection will help us out materially 

 here. In several cases, one in particular, a ranger spent 



an unnecessary 'amount of time in making a small oak cord- 







wood sale. 



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