SCALING AND CHECK SCALING IN INDIAN SERVICE 39 



season and if there are any logs found that should have been 

 taken they are scaled, stamped with the regulation U. S. hatchet 

 and reported the same as the other logs. If the purchasing 

 company wants to go over the area and remove these logs they 

 have a perfect right to do so, otherwise they are left in the 

 woods. This feature encourages closer utilization of the timber 

 and insures cleaner work on the part of the company than could 

 be gotten in any other way. 



This does not complete the inspection, however, for the in- 

 spector may find an inspector from Washington in town any 

 day, and have him go to the camps with him and check up both 

 his work and that of the regular sealer. Usually the inspector 

 and the Chief from Washington both scale the same logs, then 

 .check up with the sealer. If the sealer's scale does not agree 

 with the inspector's scale, or with the Chief's scale, or the in- 

 spector's scale does not agree with the Chief's scale, something is 

 wrong and someone will probably be fired, and you can be reason- 

 ably certain it will not be the Chief. 



