FIELD AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT. 



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diligence to make only actually necessary purchases and to take 

 care of the 'property. Receipts on Form 943 for every piece of 

 "property in rangers' hands must be on file in the supervisor's 

 office. 



Axes, single and double bitted 

 and broad. 



Adzes. 



Anvils. 



Blasting equipment and ma- 

 terial. 



Brush hooks. 



Canthooks. 



Crowbars. 



Drawing board; specifications 

 furnished on request. 



Files. 



Forges. 



Frows. 



Frames, window and door. 



Grindstones and stands. 



Glass, for cabin windows. 



Hardware needed in construc- 

 tion work. 



Handles axe, mattock, pick, 

 adze, hatchet, and saw 



Hatchets, shingling. 



Hoes. 



Ink, writing and colored draw- 

 ing. 



Log chains. 



Lanterns. 



Lumber needed for construction. 



Machetes. 



Mattocks. 



Mauls. 



Paste, for office. 



Pickaxes. 



Pitchforks. 



Pliers. 



Rope. 



Rakes. 



Saws, crosscut. 



Stoves, for ranger cabins. 



Shovels. 



Spades. 



Skidding tongs. 



Tools, carpenter's and horse- 

 shoeing. 



Telephone materials. 



Wire, 'phone and fence. 



Wire stretchers. 



Articles not in this list may be bought upon special permission 

 from the Forester. 



When any one purchase amounts to over $50, competitive bids 

 from at least three merchants must be secured, but when this is 

 impossible, a statement of the reasons should be submitted. Com- 

 petition should also be secured for purchases of less than $50 

 whenever practicable. (See paragraph 11 of the Fiscal Regula- 

 tions of the Department of Agriculture. ) 



Under no circumstances will personal or horse equipment, such 

 as saddles, saddle pockets, blankets, canteens, firearms, cook or 



