Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-08-17

or department to-day promulgated
rules and regulations governing the
removal of timber from government
lands. They are prescribed by virtue
of the act of June ID, 1878, entitled,
ian act authorizing citizens of Colo
RADIO, Nevada, and the territories to
fell and remove timber on the public
domain for milling and domestic pur-
poses. The act applies only to the
states of Colorado and Nevada, and
territories of Utah, Wyoming Dako-
ia, Idaho and Montana, and other
mineral districts of the United States
that are not specially provided for.
| The land from which tlmF err is felled,
under the provisions of the act must
be known to be strictly of mineral
character, and that it is not subject
to entry under the existing laws of
the United States except for mineral
entry.
No person not citizen or bona fde
resident of the state, territory or 9TH
err mineral district provided for in
said act, is permitted to fell or remove
timber from mineral lands therein,
and no person, firm or corporation
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telling or removing timber under this
act shall sell or dispose of the same,
or lumber manufactured therefrom, to
any other than citizens and bona fide
residents of the state or territory
where such timber is cut, nor any
other than for the legitimate use of
said purchaser for the purpose men,
toned in said act.
Any owner or manager of saw
mill or other persons, telling or re-
moving timber under the provisions
of this act shall keep a record of all
timber so cut or removed stating the
time when cut, names of parties cut
ting the same or in charge of the
work and describing the land whence
: cut, by legal subdivisions, surveyed
, and as near as practical, if not sur
veyed, with a statement of the evil
dence upon which it is claimed that
tho land is mineral in character, and
stating also the kind and quality Of
I, lumber manufactured therefrom to-
4 gether with the names of the parties
: to whom any timber or lumber is solo
? dates of sale and the purposes fol
Y which sold; and not sell or dispose oil
e such timber or lumber made from
d such timber without taken the pur
e chaser's written agreement that the
: same shall not be used except fo
). building, agricultural, mining or othe
c domestic purposes within any state O
: territory, and every such purchase
s shall further be required to file will
: said owner under oath that he pur
t chases such timber or lumber exclu
: sively for his own use and for tn,
e purposes of aforesaid.
S Timber felled or removed shall b,
e strictly limited to building, agricultu
h raj, mining or other domestic purpo
It ses within the state or territory wher'
s it grew. All cutting of such timbe
Y for use outside of the state or terri
:. tory where the same is cut and all re
movals thereof outside of the state 0
tarritory where it is cut are forbidden
No person will be permitted to fel
!. or remove any growing trees of an,
, kind whatsoever, less than eight In
> ches in diameter.
" Persons telling or removing timbe
" from public mineral lands, of tn
, United States must utilize all of eao
-" tree cut, or that can be proftably use
and must cut and remove the top
: and brush, or dispose of the same i
such manner as to prevent sprea
Q of forest fires.
The act under which these rule
r and regulations were prescribed pre-
vides as follows: "Section 5. An