oii;hor boon canceled or are pending novf In tt\d Interior 

 Do.-trtaent. On the Tahoo r.^riculturol nlnlras -or!: IB t i 

 the minimum. I "jeliovo thoro Is but ten agricultural olrimB 

 on the forest end probably only three of thora rill over 

 co"io to a case. In clfime v.or 1 ; our greatest trouble hr.s 

 beon to pot reports und affidavits from the rtn-;ero Re- 

 porting on a clcl?3 Ic "clnd of a tau.-jh proposition. The 

 c:.-? :lnor ~oes on the -.-round and sees conditions and hao 

 his opinion, jut in convoying thet opinion to the r;upor- 

 visor rm ; oho Suporvioor in tuiTi to ,ihe DiBtrlot 0-ri'ioe, 

 the Trots in the case are ^cny "tinec lost. In other v;orc'8 

 oho exc-iainer fc lie to conceive that ho hea not ^iven rll 

 the facts in the case. II; ny tlmoo he heo the facts in his 

 end things the other officers 'mov/ then Juot as rell. 



forest officers mt.:;inj3 reports should collect 

 all bho cle-ims data from yocr to year, oven If it is a 

 repetition end file it In the case, so that v/hem the case 

 oonee up for nctent thoy will havo all the foots in tho 

 c;:so. 



ITho original ho?Qter.(? act 7?r.o very explicit. 

 Out of the ori^inr.1 let : x ssed In 1062 and revised in 1082, 

 thoro hco boon to tho :.Tosont time about 1& volumes of 

 decisions nritten. One thln3 v/e nust remember. It nufit 

 bo tho nans horoe , to the exclusion of p hone elso\7here, 

 for five yerrs. 



In the nr^ttei* of affidavits, no one arnreciates 

 moro than I do tho difficulty of oVtrlnlnr; rood fiffidavlts. 

 An affidavit ohoulc" ctc.to by yor.ro rhi't the 'olfi Irian t hcs 

 done. Thct n?.y av^oar to yotu' nlnf. to euperfluous, but 

 unless on e.ffldevit contrlns rhr.t tho olrlracnt f.id from 

 yoo.r to ^ear it is uaelesa. 



liinorcl deltas will continue on the Hrtional 

 Poroots forever but the ro;x>rtln^ is largely tr?:on out of the 

 rcryrooro hr.nds, Personally I cannot oee rhy e rancor is 

 re' ulrod to report on nlnoral olrlns r.t ell, r.lnce hio re- 

 port is clrr.ys follovod u;- by an 0:^x3 rt niner. llovorthe- 

 locs ho is roruirer to do i r.nd ahoulf. do iv ri^ht. One 

 01 ohe rcr.aono Tor this iu ih: t vory fev/ of the rrrr:ors 

 hcvo had sufficient experience clon ; t;iio line r.nd are not 

 co-.THitont for this ror::. In reportin';: clrins of noro thtn 

 ton i-cres In oxtent, each ton acres nhoulc be surveyed out 

 r.nc". r.n oxcrainrtlon nrdo of oteh individual tract to loam 

 T'hai; vcluo hr.t piece o^ lrn<* nay hnve for iainorp.1 

 purposes, unless* in SOT ocses tho land chor;8 thct it f.ooe 

 not contain ninorcl. 



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