" SURVEYS OF FOREST RESERVES. 99 



In all sales of timber to be made in this reserve, every tree sold should 

 be marked by a member of the forest force with the forest brand already 

 referred to, and the buyer should be required to subscribe to the con- 

 ditions of a permit covering the following points: 



1. No timber shall be cut or removed until payment has been made 

 and the receipt presented to the local forest officer. 



2. The timber sold must be removed within a specified time upon 

 pain of forfeiture. 



3. All lumbering must be done in accordance with the general rules 

 in force and with any special regulations which may be prescribed for 

 particular areas. 



4. Special care must be exercised to avoid damage to all the timber 

 not sold, and the permittee must assist in extinguishing any forest fire 

 which may occur within specified limits. 



5. A system of fines must be provided for injury to the growing tim- 

 ber and for minor violations of the rules. Serious offenses against the 

 regulations must work forfeiture of the permit. 



6. Liquor must be excluded from the camps of the permittee, because 

 of the danger from fire which intoxication entails. 



7. The occurrence of a fire in the timber sold to a permittee may lead 

 to the :^rfeiture of the permit and the money paid therefor, at the dis- 

 cretion of the executive officer, with the approval of the chief forester. 



BOUNDARIES. 



Except for a small area of agricultural land on the southeast corner 

 of the reserve, nearly the whole of which has passed out of Government 

 hands, no changes in boundaries are required for the purpose of ex- 

 cluding lands now within the reserve. On the other hand, I- have to 

 recommend the inclasion of 425,000 acres situated on the eastern slope 

 of the Priest Eange of mountains, the summit of which forms the pres- 

 ent eastern boundary. The same reasons which justify the present 

 Priest Eiver Reserve apply to the inclusion of this strip, which consists 

 of rugged mountains, broken and almost wholly unfit for agriculture 

 and covered with forests more or less seriously injured by fire. Along 

 the Kootenai Kiver, after it becomes the proposed eastern boundary of 

 the reserve, are a small number of settlers. Under the regulations 

 already in effect, and with the additions recommended in my report, 

 the rights of these settlers will be fully protected, and the agricultural 

 development of the region they have settled will be limited only by its 

 capacities in that direction. The proposed addition is shown on the 

 accompanying map. 



The new boundary lines recommended are as follows: Beginning at 

 a point on the present southern boundary line of the Priest River For- 

 est Reserve at the southeast corner of section 33, township 57 north, 

 range 3 west ; thence northerly 2 miles along the section line to the 

 southeast corner of section 21 of said township ; thence easterly 3 miles 

 along the section line to the southeast corner of section 24 of said town- 

 ship; thence northerly 1 mile to the northeast corner of said section; 

 thence easterly 2 miles to the southeast corner of section 17, town 

 ship 57 north, range 2 west; thence northerly 1 mile to the northeast 

 corner of said section ; thence easterly 1 mile to the southeast corner 

 of section 9 of said township; thence northerly 1 mile to the northeast 

 corner of said section; thence easterly 2 miles to the southeast corner 

 of section 2 of said township; thence northerly 1 mile to the northeast 

 corner of said section; thence easterly 1 mile along the township line 



