54 BULLETIN 284, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
for road building and maintenance in certain of the National Parks 
and Forests. | 
These arrangements provide that when the assistance of a high- 
way engineer for any of the National Parks or Forests is desired, 
the assignment of such an engineer will be requested of the Office 
of Public Roads, and such engineer will be assigned by said office 
whenever it is practicable to do so. The salaries of such engineers 
are paid from funds of the Office of Public Roads, and their ex- 
penses from funds of the Department of the Interior when the 
cooperative work is within National Parks, and from funds of the 
Forest Service when the work is within National Forests. All work 
of construction is paid for from funds of the Department of the 
Interior or the Forest Service. 
WORK DONE IN NATIONAL FORESTS. 
In conformity with the agreements made, representatives of the 
office were placed in five of the Forest Service Districts and in three 
of the National Parks about the 1st of June, 1914. The men who 
were placed in the Forest Service Districts spent the first few months 
in learning conditions and particularly in getting acquainted with 
the road projects by making field inspections. In some cases, where 
the importance of the project warranted it, reconnaissance surveys 
were made. With the information thus obtained, together with data 
assembled from reports of forest supervisors, lists were made of the 
most important of the projects in each State, and these lists, show- 
ing the projects in the order of their importance, were transmitted 
through the district foresters to the Forester for his approval. As 
soon as possible after the approval of the lists, surveys were begun 
and carried to completion. In practically all of the districts surveys 
have been made of the projects which will be put under construction 
during 1915, and plans, estimates, and specifications are being pre- 
pared. A small amount of earth road construction was done up to 
January 1, 1915, but in most cases attention was confined to prepara- 
tory work to insure that an orderly progress of the work would be 
followed out. 
SURVEY WORK. 
In preparation for construction work, which is described later, the 
following survey work was done: 
COCHETOPA FOREST, CoLo.—Cochetopa Pass Road.—Nine and one-half miles of 
location survey was made and stakes driven for the construction work at a 
cost of $682.21. 
Routt Forest, CoLo.—Rabbit Har Road.—HEleven and one-half miles of loca- 
tion survey was made, plans prepared, and estimates begun at a cost of $786.76. 
