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Class C Owners of transient stock. 



Class C embraces all grazing applications not falling within Classes A and 

 B. A speculator who buys stock and places it upon the range at intervals, or 

 the nomadic stockman with no fixed range who trails his stock to widely sepa- 

 rated ranges, would be Class C owners. Class C applicants will be entirely 

 excluded from the Forest before any reduction is made upon Class B applicants. 



New settlers must qualify. 



New settlers upon unimproved Government or patented lands will not be 

 regarded as Class A applicants until they have demonstrated the good faith 

 of their settlement by three years of residence, improvement, and cultivation, 

 and by compliance with the United States land laws or satisfaction of contract 

 agreements. They may, however, be granted the same preference in the use 

 of the range that is granted to bona fide Class A applicants, provided that the 

 grazing privileges granted will' be temporary in character during the three-year 

 period and will not be in excess of the settler's actual needs or so large that 

 they will appear to be the principal object in filing upon or purchasing the land. 

 (See " Permits to new owners.") 



Status determined by holdings. 



An applicant's status is determined by the total number of all classes of 

 stock owned by him. He can not be a Class A cattle owner and Class B sheep 

 owner. If he owns either class of stock in excess of the protective limit for 

 that class he is a Class B owner, or if he owns a per cent of the cattle pro- 

 tective limit and also a per cent of the sheep protective limit which combined 

 exceed 100 per cent he is in Class B. For example, the protective limit being 

 100 head for cattle and 1,200 head for sheep, if he owned 50 head of cattle and 

 500 head of sheep (02 per cent) he would be in Class A: but if he owned 75 

 head of cattle and 750 head of sheep (137 per cent) he would be in Class B. 

 An applicant owning sheep and cattle may, however, be in both Class B and 

 Class C. 



Ownership of ranch property. 



By ranch property is meant lands producing cultivated crops which are used 

 for feeding live stock. In localities where the production of feed is not a 

 requisite to the stock business the ownership of spring and fall range or lambing 

 grounds by a bona fide resident dependent upon the use of the range is given 

 nearly the same weight with the ownership of cultivated lands. The same is 

 true of the ownership of water rights which control adjoining National Forest 

 range. In renewals to purchasers of permitted stock the ownership of spring 

 and fall range or water rights closely related to the use of National Forest 

 range may be given equal weight with improved ranch property. Property 

 of this sort must be commensurate with the number of stock and be actually 

 dependent for its value upon National Forest range. To illustrate, a spring 

 and fall range and lambing ground sufficient for 1.000 head of sheep might 

 justify the approval of an application for a permit to graze 1,000 or less sheep 

 upon a National Forest during the summer season, but not of an application to 

 graze 2,000 head of sheep during the summer season or to lamb and graze 1,000 

 head of sheep during the spring and fall seasons. 



Dependence upon range. 



A person will be considered dependent upon the use of the National Forest 

 range when the Forest lands adjacent to his own contain the only available 

 stock range and the grazing of a limited number of stock is essential to his 

 success in the development of his land. 



Residence. 



Residence is simply an index in determining the degree of dependence. A 

 person residing at a distance from a National Forest can not be considered so 

 dependent upon Forest range as one residing near by. 



Transient owners. 



A permit may be granted an owner who is a transient resident in the locality 

 only with the "understanding that it gives no permanent grazing preference. 

 This precaution is necessary to guard the interests of future Class A applicants. 



