The Month in Government Forest Work 



Legal 

 Matters 



The investigation of al- 

 leged illegal mining 

 mining claims will be ex- 

 tended to the Prescott Reserve, Ari- 

 zona, during the month of December. 

 The work will be performed by Geolo- 

 gists L. G. Gillett, W. L. Walker, and 

 S. H. Ball. They will probably exam- 

 ine claims of like character in the Lin- 

 con Reserve, New Mexico, after con- 

 cluding work in the Prescott. 



The Forester has directed the super- 

 visor of the Tahoe Forest Reserve, 

 Cal., to seize any timber cut from the 

 vacant odd sections of land returned 

 as mineral by the survey, within 10 

 miles of the line of the Central Pacific 

 Railroad. 



This timber was originally granted 

 to the railroad company by the acts of 

 July i, 1862, and July 2, 1864, and the 

 Forester held, as a basis for his direc- 

 tions to the supervisor, that the failure 

 of the railroad company to remove the 

 timber within a reasonable time termi- 

 nated its rights, since it could not be 

 presumed that Congress intended to 

 grant to the railroad company a per- 

 petual easement in the land for the 

 purpose of growing timber. 



This decision will apply to timber on 

 mineral odd sections within the 10- 

 mile limit of the Central Pacific and 

 Union Pacific railroads. 



The Attorney-General has been re- 

 quested to begin suits in the following 

 cases : Orenshaw, saloon, Aexander 

 Archipelago Reserve ; Thomas Shan- 

 non, contempt proceedings to punish 

 for violation of injunction, Little Belt 



Reserve; Merin Marshall, fire, Weiser 

 Reserve. 



In the case of J. H. Schworer, privi- 

 lege trespasser in the Bitter Root Re- 

 serve, the Forester rejected the appli- 

 cation of a defiant trespasser for the 

 classification, listing, and opening to 

 homestead entry under the act of June 

 11, 1906, of land held by him in tres- 

 pass. 



Simon Romero was arrested on Oc- 

 tober 28 for grazing trespass on the 

 Jemez Reserve and held in default of 

 bail in the sum of $250. On Novem- 

 ber 21 Romero's offer of $108.15, in 

 settlement for the civil damages was 

 accepted. 



In the following cases offers of set- 

 tlement for the civil damages have 

 been accepted: M. H. Knapp, eject- 

 ment, Blue Mountains Reserve ; Ben- 

 ton R. Bailey, timber trespass, Kla- 

 math Reserve; Alta Russell and John 

 Russell, timber trespass, Mount Rain- 

 ier Reserve ; Andrew Norrell, grazing 

 trespass, Park Range Reserve. 



The following special privilege per- 

 mits for power-developing projects 

 were issued by the Forester between 

 October 1 5 and November 1 5 : 



Stanislaus Electric Power Compa- 

 ny : Dam, conduit, and power house on 

 Deadman Creek ; dam, conduit and 

 power house on Upper Stanislaus Riv- 

 er ; dam and reservoir on Relief Creek ; 

 dams and reservoir at Kennedy's 

 Meadow, on the Stanislaus River; a 

 wagon road and camp site to be used 

 in the construction work carried on by 



