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it will be eliminated from the entry before patent. 

 (Appendix, p. 193.) 



Any recognized mineral substance, if found in suffi- 

 cient quantity, will warrant entry under the mineral 

 land laws for example, building* stone, china or fire 

 clay, coal, limestone, oil, salt, slate, etc., but not brick 

 clay, sand, or gravel. (Appendix, p. 194.) 



IV. ADMINISTRATIVE. 



Lands needed for supervisors' headquarters, rangers' 

 cabins, gardens, or pastures, and Forest Service nurs- 

 ery sites should be selected, so^far as possible, from 

 nonmineral, unclaimed lands, and will be specially re- 

 served from any form of location or entry. Super- 

 visors should recommend sufficient reservations to 

 meet the future as well as the present needs of the 

 Service. If it becomes necessary to recommend the 

 reservation of land probably valuable for mining pur- 

 poses or embraced in an invalid claim, a special report 

 should accompany the recommendation, showing the 

 necessity for reservation and the character of the claim. 



V. STATE LANDS. 



Indemnity selections may be made by the States and 

 Territories for granted school sections 16 and 36 when 

 in u forest reserve, and these sections will then become 

 part of the reserve. (Appendix p. 191.) If the reserve 

 was established before the survey of sections 16 and 36 

 they become forest reserve lands, except in Montana, 

 South Dakota, and Washington; in other States and 

 Territories the grant of these sections will not take 

 effect, except for indemnity selection purposes, until 



