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der), should be sent by the bidders to the receiver of the local 

 land office, and the bid will be forwarded from that office to 

 the Department. 



8. At the end of thirty days (sixty days in California), the 

 timber will be awarded to the highest bidder; and if the ap- 

 plicant is the successful bidder, the deposit is credited on the 

 sale; if not, the money will be refunded. 



9. When the timber is awarded the applicant will sign a 

 contract containing the specifications contained in the original 

 application, as to manner of cutting, scaling, and cleaning up, 

 etc., and, if the case seems to justify it, he will be asked to 

 give a bond, usually in an amount double the value of the 

 timber, to secure the proper fulfillment of the contract. 



10. Cutting may then begin. 



11. The material will be skidded or piled in the customary 

 manner, and the purchaser is required to mark the tops of 

 the logs to facilitate scaling. 



12. The scaling will be done in the customary way by the 

 old Scribner rule, by which the contents of a 16-foot log are 

 as follows: 



This rule applies to saw timber and mining timber. Logs 

 of 24 feet and over in length, are scaled at more than one 

 point; so that a log 24 feet long, for instance, is scaled at 16 

 feet and at the top. In other words, long pieces are treated 

 as 16-foot logs and fractions thereof. 



Square-hewed goods are measured like sawed timber, as 

 solid pieces. Thus, an 8 by 12 inch 16-foot timber contains 

 128 feet B. M. 



