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- j^p^ 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 

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

 Wher ** a ' ^ c . m ^ n + n T^HI J *i^ &**l^nt.\* not 



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on county roads. t **^ r !'^7?* , v " , TT . T ~?s 



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 



