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tees at a charge of from 25 cents to $1.00 an acre. 

 Not over 160 acres are allowed to any one permit- 

 tee. Cabins cost from $3.00 to $5.00; hay cutting 

 from 20 to 50 cents an acre ; hotels and roadhouses 

 from $10.00 to $50.00; pastures from 4 to 25 cents 

 per acre; residences covering from one to three 

 acres cost from $5.00 to $25.00; resorts from $10.00 

 to $50.00; stores from $5.00 to $50.00 for two acres 

 or less; and other uses in proportion. 



Perhaps the use that is purchased most of all on 

 the National Forests is that for residences and sum- 

 mer homes. On many of the Forests they are al- 

 ready in great demand. A large proportion of the 

 population of the far Western States seek the cool 

 and invigorating air of the mountains in the early 

 summer because the heat of the valleys, especially 

 in California, is almost unbearable. 



There are many desirable pieces of land on the 

 National Forests that are being reserved by the 

 Forest Service especially for this purpose for the 

 people of the neighboring towns. For example, on 

 the Angeles National Forest in California the Su- 

 pervisor had about 250 suitable sites surveyed in one 

 picturesque canyon and in six months 226 of them 

 were under special use permits as summer homes. 



