NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL TIMBER SALES. 21 



The notice of sale of timber for which application has been made 

 should take the following form, with such modifica- 

 " 31 ' " tions as may be necessary by reason of varying re- 



quirements of the sale: 



SALE OF TIMBER. 



(City.) (State.) (Date.) 



Sealed bids marked outside, "Bid, timber-sale application, , 



(Date of application.) 



, " and addressed to the Forest Supervisor, 



(Name of Forest.) 



National Forest, , (or " to the District Forester, Forest Service, 



(City.) (State.) 



, , " if class D sale), will be received up to and including the 



(City.) (State.) 



day of , , for all the merchantable dead timber standing or 



(Month.) (Year.) 



down and all the live timber marked (or designated) for cutting by a Forest officer, 

 located on an area to be definitely designated by a Forest officer before cutting begins, 



including about acres in approximately sec , T , R , 



.... M . on the watershed of River, within the 



National Forest, estimated to be feet board measure of live saw 



(Species.) 



timber, log scale, and cords of cordwood, more or less. No bid of less than 



$ per thousand feet board measure for saw timber and $ per cord for 



cordwood will be considered, and a deposit of $ payable to the order of the 



National Bank of , , must be sent to that bank for 



(City.) (State.) 



each bid submitted to the supervisor (or district forester) . Timber upon valid claims is 

 exempt from sale. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. For further infor- 

 mation and regulations governing sales address Forest Supervisor, 



National Forest, , (or District Forester, , . . . . . ). 



(City.) (State.) (City.) (State.) 



(Signature of forest supervisor or district forester.) 

 "(Title.")" " 



In order to make the advertisement legal, the last day for receiving 

 bids must be at least 30 davs from the first appearance 

 b Date ceiving of the advertisement, but need not be the date of its 

 final appearance. Care should be taken, therefore, 

 to see that the date up to which bids will be received, which the 

 supervisor should insert in the copy to be furnished to the publisher, 

 is the same day in the following month as the date of the first publica- 

 tion. If, however, the first publication appears on January 29, 30, 

 or 31, the final date for receiving bids should be March 1, 2, or 3, as 

 the case may be. If the first publication appears in February, the 

 final date for receiving bids should be two days later in March than 

 the date of the first publication. If in any case the last day for 

 receiving bids faUs on Sunday or a legal holiday, the final date should 

 be the following day. 



If material mistakes appear, they should be corrected and the 

 date up to which bids will be received changed to the 

 " thirtieth day after the first appearance of the cor- 

 rected advertisement. A full period of 30 days will 



