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(4) The length of poles required. The line must be at least 3 

 feet above snow and brush. 



(5) The kind, quality, and height of the timber available for 

 poles along the proposed route, noting distances which timber 

 will have to be hauled to the line. 



When considering a route special attention should be paid to 

 existing or proposed roads and trails which will afford means of 

 transport for material when building the line and when repairs 1 

 become necessary. 



CABINS. 



Eventually all the rangers who serve the year round will be 

 furnished with headquarter cabins on the reserves. It is the in- 

 tention of the Forest Service to build these as rapidly as funds 

 will permit. Wherever possible cabins should be built of logs, 

 with shingle or shake roofs. 



The hardware, glass, and door and window frames may be pur- 

 chased on authorization from the Forester. Cabins should be of 

 sufficient size to afford comfortable living accommodations to the 

 family of the ranger stationed in them, and this ranger will be 

 held responsible for the proper care of the cabin and the ground 

 surrounding it. It is impossible to insist on proper care of camps 

 if the forest officers themselves do not keep their cabins as models 

 of neatness. 



Rangers' cabins should be located where there is enough agri- 

 cultural land for a small field and suitable pasture land for a few 

 head of horses and a cow or two, in order to decrease the often ex- 

 cessive expense for vegetables and feed. In course of time several 

 rangers' camps will be needed for each township, and selections 

 of sites should be made with this in view. The amount of agri- 

 cultural land necessary to supply a ranger's family with vegetables 

 and to raise hay and grain enough to winter his saddle and other 

 stock will vary greatly in different localities, but as a general rule 

 it will not be less than 10 nor more than 40 acres. The field must, 

 of course, be inclosed by a stock-proof fence. 



The pasture should be of sufficient size to support the stock not 

 in use by the ranger during the summer, and only in cases where 

 it is obviously necessary should they include land that could be 



