86 FOBEST EESEKVE MANUAL. 



and estimating and all other forest-reserve work. Successful 

 experience in forest-reserve service will count for much. 



2. The salary of forest superintendents will not be uniform, 

 but will be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior in accord- 

 ance with the importance attached to each jurisdiction, but in 

 all cases necessary traveling expenses are allowed. 



3. The forest superintendent acts as local inspector for the 

 reserves under his charge. He has access to any books, 

 reports, or other records of the several forest officers, and is 

 assisted by the supervisors and rangers in work connected 

 with their respective reserves. 



4. His duties are to inspect the different reserves under his 

 charge, their condition, and the progress, condition, and exe- 

 cution of all work, and to report to the Commissioner of the 

 General Land Office all facts necessary for a proper under- 

 standing of existing conditions and for the management of 

 such reserves. He assists, by suggestion and advice, the cen- 

 tral office as well as the local officers, and consults with the 

 supervisors and helps plan the work of the reserves. 



SUPERVISORS. 



1. Forest supervisors will only be appointed after demon- 

 strating their ability to perform the duties of the office; and 

 only men well grounded and experienced in forest survey, 

 timber estimating, and timber business will be considered eli- 

 gible. Successful fexperience in forest-reserve service will 

 count for much. 



2. The salary of supervisors will not be uniform, but will 

 be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with 

 the amount of business in the reserve or reserves in each 

 jurisdiction. 



3. Each supervisor will be required to keep, at his own 

 expense, one or more saddle horses, to be used under saddle 

 or to vehicle, for his transportation in the reserve; and will 

 only be allowed such necessary traveling expenses as are 

 incurred when the urgency of the case requires some other 

 means of transportation. 



4. The supervisor will have full charge of the subordinate 

 employees and the business of his reserve or reserves. 



5. He will plan and direct all work, have entire disposition 



