14 FOREST RESERVE MANUAL. 



SALE OF TIMBER IN FOREST RESERVES. 



GENERAL. 



1. Timber will be sold, both live and dead, wherever the 

 removal of such material will be beneficial, or at least not 

 detrimental, to the forest reserves. 



2. In the disposition of this material the local demand will 

 ha-v'e preference, and, in localities where this local demand 

 is so great that all available timber is likely to be needed, 

 applications involving the export of the material to distant 

 points will be refused. 



HOW THE TIMBER MAT BE PURCHASED. 



1. The applicant who wishes to purchase timber will apply, 

 in person or in writing, to the supervisor of the reserve, 

 stating — 



(a) How much timber he wishes to buy; 

 (5) The kind of material desired; 

 (c) Where the timber is located. 



2. As soon as practicable the supervisor or his assistant 

 will go over the ground with the applicant, and determine 

 whether the timber may be sold, under what conditions, and 

 at what price. 



3. After an agreement is reached the applicant should sign 

 a definite application, prepared on the regular form, with the 

 assistance of the forest oflicer. 



4. After this, the forest officer marks out the block or area 

 where the timber^may be cut, maps it, and estimates the 

 amount of timber on the whole, and also the particular kind 

 applied for. He also makes a general forest description of 

 the tract, block, or quarter section. 



5. Then the application, together with the forest officer's 

 description and recommendation, is sent to the Department at 

 Washington. 



6. If approved, the timber will be advertised in a local paper 

 for thirty days (sixty days in California). This advertisement 

 will be waived only in cases where the amount involved in the 

 sale is of $100 stumpage value, or less. 



7. Bids on this timber will then be in order. These bids, 

 together with a deposit (insuring the good faith of the bid- 



