ai.d as good as '.-3 could Iu,v3 done ours&ivag under the plan you pro- 

 pose simpl:: from the Tact of good administrc tion by the ofiicor in 

 charge cx d th? right kind of control of the work done in brush piling 

 by employees of the purchaser. 



I hav? no objection, however, to your trying the method which 

 you propose on e purely experimental scale. The Division of Ac- 

 counts informs me that this would necessitate a cooperative agree- 

 inant r/ith the purchaser independent of an& supplementing the timber 

 sale contract. Under this cooperative agreement the purchaser 

 should bind himself to deposit specified amounts at specified times 

 to be disbursed by the Torest Service for the piling of brush on 

 th3 s: le area , any excess of deposits over United States "tv 

 expenditures for this purpose to be refunded. The details of the 

 plan shoiild of course be v/orlt^d out vrith the fiscal Agent and 

 Assistant to the Solicitor in your District. The experiment should 

 be limited to a comparatively small area, preferably near aree.s 

 nhare lar3 sales are in progress and the brush v;ill be piled under 

 the present method. This rill iacilitate direct comparison of 

 results. I v/ould mc^ie cirtain, however, even in the azparimont , that 

 the xorect officer in oiiarge ^rill not thereby be kept from other 

 urgent uork li?-;e fire -protection." 



In anGordande \7ith the authorit.y indicated above, a feu small 

 scale experiments with this method of brush piling v ill be in- 

 stituted in this District and c.ny comparative results rill be made 

 to you either br circular letter or at the next Supervisor's 



