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to handle than larger ones, and constant endeavor looking toward 

 reducing costs is necessary. Scaling or measurement and woods work 

 will not be conducted oftener than is essential to prevent unnecessary 

 hardship to the purchaser and to insure compliance with the contract. 

 Purchasers may justly be required to have cut for measurement or 

 scaling amounts of timber which will make the visit of the Forest 

 officer worth while, and may be expected to so arrange their business 

 that more frequent visits will be unnecessary. The proper arrange- 

 ment of dates for marking and scaling will result in great economy. 

 Forest officers should never lose an opportunity to reduce the cost 



or increase the efficiency of administering large sales 



if it will not defeat the objects desired. The more sim- 

 ple and definite the methods adopted, the less chance there is for poor 

 work by Forest officers or misunderstandings by purchasers. The 

 location of each year's cut must be carefully determined and, so far 

 as possible, must cover average conditions for the whole sale. Since 

 the proper administration of large sales depends largely upon the men 

 placed in charge, supervisors will use the greatest care in their selec- 

 tion. Important work of this character will not be left to inexpe- 

 rienced men. 



Forest officers in charge of sales will see that the conditions of the 



contract are complied with, and should such condi- 

 *"* tions seem unjust or unreasonable, will take the 



proper steps to secure such necessary modifications 

 as are authorized under regulation S-7. No Forest officer has been 

 or will be authorized to allow the violation of a contract. A Forest 

 officer can not properly handle a sale unless he has a copy of the 

 contract and is familiar with its terms. 



Questions concerning logging methods, compliance with the con- 

 subordmates tract, etc., will be taken up with the purchaser or his 



superintendent rather than with subordinate em- 

 ployees. 



Cutting may not begin in any sale until the contract has been exe- 



cuted or an advance cutting agreement has been 

 belin en< tingmay executed and approved, the timber designated, the 



necessary deposits made and the Forest officer in 

 charge furnished with a copy of the contract. In unadvertised sales 

 it must also be definitely known that the contract is or will be ap- 

 proved. In advertised sales, if other requirements are satisfied, cut- 

 ting may follow the execution and need not await formal approval of 

 the contract. 



MARKING. 



When the sale of any green timber is assured, the supervisor will 



Methods fcrees w hich are to be cut are marked or oth- 



erwise unmistakably designated for cutting. Where 

 only dead timber is purchased and no living timber will be cut, or 

 where patches are to be cut clean, Forest officers may, instead of 

 marking or designating every tree for cutting, blaze and mark the 

 boundary of the cutting area or patch and instruct the purchaser in 

 the manner of cutting. Merchantable dead trees, about which there 

 may be a question, will always be marked, except where the contract 

 contains a clause providing for the cutting of all dead timber. 



