96 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



such other method as he may deem advisable in the interest of equal 

 opportunity and good administration, and in doing so may provide 

 that lands so opened shall be subject only to homestead' entry by 

 actual settlers only or to entry under the desert-land laws for a period 

 not exceeding ninety days, the unentered lands to be thereafter sub- 

 ject to disposition under the public-land laws applicable thereto. 



Extended to previous restorations. 



Sec. 2. That where under the law the Secretary of the Interior is 

 authorized or directed to make restoration of lands previously with- 

 drawn he may also restrict the restoration as prescribed in section 

 one of this Act. 



SILVICULTURE. 



TIMBER SALES. 



Timber sales provisions of act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 11, 35), as amended 

 by act June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 661). 



Appraisal and sale. 



For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber and 

 promoting the younger growth on forest reservations, the Secretary 

 of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, 

 may cause to be designated and appraised so much of the dead, ma- 

 tured, or large growth of trees found upon such forest reservations 

 as may be compatible with the utilization of the forests thereon, and 

 may sell the same for not less than the appraised value in such quan- 

 tities to each purchaser as he shall prescribe, to be used in the State 

 or Territory in which such timber reservation may be situated, re- 

 spectively ; but not for export therefrom. 1 



Advertisement. 



2 [Before such sale shall take place notice thereof shall be given 

 * * * for not less than thirty days, by publication in one or more 

 newspapers of general circulation, as he may deem necessary, in the 

 State or Territory where such reservation exists : Provided, however, 

 That in cases of unusual emergency the Secretary of the Interior may, 

 in the exercise of his discretion, permit the purchase of timber and 

 cord wood in advance of advertisement of sales at rates of value ap- 

 proved by him and subject to payment of the full amount of the 

 highest bid resulting from the usual advertisement of sale : Provided 

 further, That he may, in his discretion, sell without advertisement, 

 in quantities to suit applicants, at a fair appraisement, timber and 

 cord wood not exceeding in value one hundred dollars stumpage : And 

 provided further, That in cases in which advertisement is had und 

 no satisfactory bid is received, or in cases in which the bidder fails 

 to complete the purchase, the timber may be sold, without further 

 advertisement, at private sale, in the discretion of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, at not less than the appraised valuation, in quantities to 

 suit purchasers: And provided further, That the provisions of this 

 act shall not apply to existing forest reservations in the State of 



1 Modified by agricultural appropriation act of Mar. 4, 1915 (39 Stat., 1096), printed 

 next following. 



2 The matter in brackets is taken bodily from the act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 661), 

 which amends the original act by substituting this language. 



