14 NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL SPECIAL USES. 



The supervisor may, in his discretion, permit the free use of National 

 Forest material and products for the construction or 

 Free use of ma- re p a jp o f roads or trails within National Forests, 

 roads? wlt ^ prejudice to any free-use application made in the 



same year for material and products for other pur- 

 poses, when such roads or trails are of sufficient public benefit to 

 justify the free use. The regular free-use permit form will be used. 

 When the road or trail is of a private naturejmdjhe applicant is not 



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TELEPHONE LINES. 



Permits are necessary for all telephone lines within National Forests. 

 They will be issued with the provision for free use and 

 ri ' free connection by the Forest Service, and no charge 



will be made. Only in exceptional cases will permits 

 be issued without the provision for free use and free connection, and 

 in such cases the charges will be determined for each case on its indi- 

 vidual merits. 



Permits are also necessary for all telephone lines along county 

 roads. Congress granted rights of way over the pub- 

 ^ land for Eighwtys. (U."S. Rev. Stat, sec. 2447.) 

 By that grant the lands of the United States were 

 subjected to the servitude of a highway for the benefit of the county. 

 Telephone companies must, of course, secure the consent of the 

 county authorities for the construction of these lines, but the county's 

 title and interest is only that of a right of way, while the fee in the 

 land remains in the. United States. 



Hence a telephone line on a county road through National Forest 

 lands can be operated lawfully only under permission from the Forest 



