FOEEST EESEKVE MANUAL. 21 



SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



The following considerations are of special importance: 



1. Applications will be considered and attended to in the 

 order in which they are received; but exceptions to this rule 

 will occur, with special local conditions, such as isolation of 

 particular cutting, great distances, insufficient force of work- 

 ers, etc. 



2. All applications in any reserve will be held up and 

 delayed whenever it becomes evident that the reserve force, 

 for any reason whatever, fails to carry out the work accord- 

 ing to the prescribed regulations. 



3. The timber purchased is not in every case the amount 

 called for in the application, but the amount actually found 

 on the cutting area as located and marked out by the forest 

 officer. If there is less timber on this area than the appli- 

 cant desires he must make a new application, but is never 

 allowed to cut over the original line as laid down for his case. 



4. The following violations of the regulations will be re- 

 garded as trespass, and will lead to a suspension of all opera- 

 tions until the case is settled: 



{a) Cutting across the line surrounding the cutting area; 



(5) Cutting of unmarked timber; 



(c) Removal of any material before it is properh' scaled 

 and stamped or marked. 



6. Since a considerable time is necessarily required in 

 attending to any case of timber sale, and the law positively 

 forbids an}^ short-cut methods, the public is earnestly 

 requested not to delay applications of this kind. 



6. When the applicant fails to hear of his application in a 

 reasonable time, say thirty days, he should address letters 

 both to the supervisor and to the Commissioner of the General 

 Land Office, Washington, D. C. 



T. Any incivilities, or evident neglect on the part of the 

 forest officers which hinders the purchaser in his work or 

 endangers his case by giving to it the appearance of willful 

 or negligent trespass, should be reported to the supervisor, 

 and, if not promptly corrected, should be reported to the 

 Comipissioner of the General Land Office. 



8. Trespassers, in the absence of a proper settlement for 

 the trespass, will not be awarded timber. 



