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progress and notable happenings of his reserve. This constitutes 

 the supervisor's service report which will be examined and signed 

 by each forest inspector visiting the reserve. 



MAPS OF RESERVES. 



It is essential that the supervisor's office be equipped with ac- 

 curate large-scale reserve maps, both for the information of re- 

 serve users and for the supervisor's records. As far as possible 

 black and white photographic prints or lithographic prints, United 

 States Geological Survey topographic sheets, and Land Office 

 plats will be furnished from the Washington office on request. 

 As fast as maps are supplied they should be used to record much 

 of the detail of progress of timber sales and other reserve business. 



1. TIMBER-SALE MAPS. 



As rapidly as the data can be obtained, a tracing on a scale of 

 an inch to the mile will be made in Washington for each of the 

 reserves, beginning w r ith those sections on which important timber 

 sales are in progress or anticipated. These will show topography, 

 drainage, improvements, and surveys. On duplicate prints of 

 these tracings timber, alienated land, and boundaries <of all tim- 

 ber sales on record in the Washington office will be shown. One 

 copy will be retained in this office and the other sent to the su- 

 pervisor accompanied by extra blank prints. 



One of these blank prints, which becomes a correction print, 

 will be returned to Washington at the end of three months, or 

 sooner if called for. It is intended that the supervisor, through 

 the help of his forest assistant, if one is assigned to his reserve, 

 will keep his map strictly up to date and send correction prints 

 whenever necessary to correct the map on file in Washington. 

 This correction map should show as accurately as possible the 

 additions to the colored map in distribution of the forest, loca- 

 tion of timber sales, timber trespasses, and timber settlements, 

 patented land, valid claims, and the location of all permanent 

 improvements or means of transportation connected with log- 

 ging, such as roads, sawmills, dams, flumes, or chutes. The 

 outline of natural lumbering divisions, which in most cases will 

 follow divides, and the boundaries of each timber sale should 



