EXAMINATION OF PROPERTY 39 



his entire time to running tally lines under di- 

 rection of the cruiser and never leaves a sec- 

 tion without checking up with the government 

 quarter posts and section corners to prove 

 whether his pacing work is accurate and correct. 



If there should be at any time a difference 

 in an overrun or shortage in coming out to the 

 section lines or corners, the cruiser proceeds 

 to correct up his estimate by taking off or add- 

 ing such difference, if it can be done ; if it can- 

 not, the entire section or description is re-esti- 

 mated. In no instance does the cruiser ever 

 take chances at guess work. He has positive 

 instructions never to leave a section or de- 

 scription of land until he is fully satisfied that 

 his estimates are accurate and correct. 



''The estimator is given no instructions re- 

 garding the amount of land he is to estimate 

 each day; that is left entirely to his judgment 

 as he finds the situation. "When the estimator 

 has finished his work on a section of land by 

 using the method of horse-shoeing as explained, 

 supplemented with stripping, which is actually 

 taking the dimensions as nearly as possible by 

 the eye, the estimator has an accurate tally of 

 each tree on eight acres of each 40 acres with 

 its length and other dimensions. In his hand 

 he has held a card on which he has kept a tally. 

 He also carries a field book in which he notes 

 the topography of the land, the location of 

 marshes, lakes, streams, wagon roads, logging- 

 railroads and everything that comes within his 



