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All reports of this kind are made according to the regular 

 forms, and on regular blanks, where such are furnished. In 

 making the report the ranger should never have more than 

 one subject on a sheet of paper. Thus, he should not report 

 the results of an inspection of a timber cutting on the same 

 sheet with a report on a " free-use" application, but should 

 use a separate sheet for each report. The reports may be 

 made with a hard pencil or in ink, but where rain is likely to 

 spoil a manuscript in ink the pencil is preferred. 



(3) Reports on miscellaneous matters, such as grazing, saw- 

 mills, agricultural claims, mining claims, mining mills; appli- 

 cations for right of way of roads or railways, canals, ditches, 

 reservoirs, telephoneand telegraph lines; for special privileges, 

 such as hotels, road ranches, stores, whether isolated or in 

 hamlets, villages, or towns, and reports on all forms of tres- 

 pass. These reports are made whenever the case arises or the 

 report is specially ordered. Like the preceding, reports of 

 this kind are made according to the prescribed forms. 



REPORTS OF SUPERVISORS. 

 A. — MONTHLY REPOKTS. 



These reports must include regularly: 



(1) Daily service report of supervisor (regular blank). 



(2) Service sheet of forest rangers (regular sheet). 



(3) Reports of timber survey, on regular blanks. Each 

 "block" or quarter section forms a sepai ';e report, consist- 

 ing of: 



(a) Map. 



(5) Estimate sheet, or sheets. 



(c) Description sheet, or sheets. 



(4) Reports on scaling and cutting of timber. Every cut- 

 ting is reported, on regular blank form, twice every month 

 from the time the cutting is started until the case is closed, 

 whether work is going on or not. 



(5) Miscellaneous work, such as burning of brush, workmg 

 on trails, construction of cabins, cutting fire lines, seeding or 

 planting, etc. Each kind of work is reported separately, on 

 separate'sheet, according to the prescribed form. 



(6) Report on fires. 



(7) Plan for the coming month. A brief statement as to 



