Raohford has "boon naming distinct progress 

 on the Modoo in helping to carry out "!>y direction of the 

 livestocv associations the things the majority of the per- 

 riittees want 'done with reference to salting, the number of 

 bulls, restrictions in promiscuous rou -dups , etc. 



0?he "best way to got around different instructions, 

 however, is not to cast to the wind all instructions, "but 

 to present your conditions with rp aeons and, aa Mr.DuBois 

 indicated in his opening address, we have "big men back in 

 '.'/ashington that need only to be shown. ily personal feel- 

 ing is that our conditions as a whole are moro or less sim- 

 ilar on the fully ctoclrod l?d>rests , and the sooner we can 

 adopt definite principles for handling grazing applications 

 tied in to the provisions of the Manual, and educate our 

 permittees in what tho3J era count on in grazing privileges, 

 and what they can ! t count on, "by mailing inotra to then their 

 status as defined "by cuch principlos, the ruic]rer we will 

 dispense with difficulties in acting upon otherwise trouble- 

 some applications, and roduce the handling of permits them- 

 selves to mere routine, leaving more time for the "bigger 

 problems . 



Study., of Unutilized Ranges, I think we made dis- 

 tinct progress the past season, I mean Mr.Redington and 

 Mr. Eogue did, in their special study of the unutilized 

 High Sierra ranges, (and, "by the way, Patterson and Rushing 



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