DEVELOPMENT OF PULPWOOD RESOURCES. 29 



units. It has been the object to allocate roughly to each water power 

 an amount of timber properly situated to keep it in operation con- 

 tinuously. The Forest Service is not committed, however, to the 

 sale of timber on the units as delineated. The map may serve as a 

 guide for the examination of suitable locations, and no more. The 

 Service has available on request maps of the Tongass Forest, drawn 

 on a scale of 8 miles to the inch, which give more particulars and 

 would be valuable in the detailed examination of pulpwood resources. 



The Service has had insufficient funds to conduct intensive surveys 

 and stream-gauging work on the Tongass Forest on a satisfactory 

 scale, but is pushing this work as rapidly as its resources permit. 



The coast line of Alaska is being charted by the United States Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey. The charts produced are satisfactory for navi- 

 gation. These maps furnish a basis for the survey of the interior, 

 which has been partially mapped by the United States Geological 

 Survey, the Land Office, and the Forest Service. The area indicated 

 on the map as having been cruised does not comprise the entire area 

 surveyed by the Service. Detached surveys are made in connection 

 with numerous special uses, timber sales, homestead-land settlement, 

 improvements, etc. However, the survey of an area of 20,000,000 

 acres with a coast line of 12,000 miles is obviously a task which it 

 will take years to advance to a point where reasonable demands for 

 maps and estimates of timber can be satisfied. 



(Sample agreement.) 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



Forest Service. 



TIMBER-SALE AGREEMENT. 

 DESCRIPTION OF TIMBER. Tongass *( p uYp! 



Sec. 1. We, 1 wood) - 



a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State 



of , having an office 



and principal place of business at 



State of , hereby agree Area and lo . 



to purchase an area of about cation. 



acres to be definitely designated on the ground by a Forest officer 

 prior to cutting, on 



as definitely designated on the attached map which is hereby made 

 a part of this agreement, within the Tongass National Forest, at the 

 rate or rates, and in strict conformity with all and singular the 

 requirements and conditions hereinafter set forth, all the dead 

 timber standing or down and all the live timber marked or desig- 

 nated for cutting by a Forest officer, merchantable as hereinafter 

 defined, for pulpwood, saw logs, and for other forest products 



