10 PRACTICAL FORESTRY IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 
4, The cost of executing the provisions of this agreement shall be paid as follows: 
(a) The salaries of all the employees of the Department of Agriculture engaged 
in fulfilling this agreement shall be paid by the Department. 
(b) A preliminary visit of inspection, if required, shall be wholly at the charge 
of the Department. 
(c) Actual and necessary expenses for travel and subsistence of the agent or 
agents of the Department working under this agreement, except as provided in the 
foregoing paragraph (b), shall be paid by the said W.S. Webb. What are “actual 
and necessary expenses” shall be determined by the printed regulations of the 
Department. Expenses under this paragraph (c) are estimated, for the preparation 
of this working plan, at dollars.! 
(d) Necessary assistants shall be furnished by the said W. S. Webb without cost 
to the Department. It is estimated that such assistants will be required 
for months to prepare this working plan.! 
(e) The Department shall not participate in any degree in the receipts and 
expenses arising from said land, except as above provided. 
5. The Department of Agriculture shall have the right to publish and distribute 
the said plan and its results for the information of lumbermen, forest owners, and 
others whom it may concern. 
6. This agreement may be dissolved by either party upon ten days’ notice given 
to the other. 
(Signed) JAMES WILSON. 
(Signed) 
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15, 1899. 
The working plan above mentioned being now completed is accepted, and will 
be carried out under the conditions and during the validity of the above agreement. 
(Signed) W. S. WEBB. 
The form of agreement with owners of small wood lets is similar 
to the above, except that the expenses incurred in the preparation 
of the working plans and in supervising their execution are borne 
entirely by the Department of Agriculture. 
Previous to the publication of Circular No. 21, in October, 1898, it 
became known among a number of landowners that an offer of assist- 
ance was to be made, and, in anticipation, eight applications were sent 
in during the summer. Among these were applications from Dr. W.S. 
Webb for a tract of 40,000 acres in the Adirondacks and from Hon. 
W.C. Whitney for an adjoining tract of 68,000 acres. The forest work 
was organized on these lands without delay. On the former no pre- 
liminary work was necessary, for during the previous year a complete 
working plan, which was subsequently published in **The Adirondack 
Spruce,” by Gifford Pinchot, had been prepared. On account of the 
similarity of conditions between the two tracts it was found that thix 
working plan could also be applied in its main features to the Whit- 
ney Preserve. It was only necessary, therefore, to make a rapid 
examination of the latter tract, which was completed by the writer in 
September, 1898. 
A full account of the work done on the two preserves is given in the 
present report. The writer has endeavored to state not only the points 
‘During 1897 a complete working plan was made for Nehasane Park, so that 
under this paragraph no expense will be involved. 
