The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-02-28
Selling Forest Reserve Timber.

the sale of timber on Forest Re-
serves. 1t was approved by Sec
rotary Hitchcock on Jan. %. 1t
will be read With interest by all
persons wishing to buy timber,
and, also, by all persons located
near these reserves and interested
in the development of our timber
resources. The circular follows:
"Sale of Timber in Forest Re-
serves"
Department of the Interior, Gen
eral Land Office, Washington, d.
c., Jan. %, 1902.
GENERAL.
1. Timber will be sold, both
live and dead, wherever the re-
moval of such material will be
beneficial, or at least not detriment
al, to the forest reserves.
2. In the disposition Of this
material the local demand will
have preference, and, in localities
where this local demand is so great
that all available timber is likely
to be needed, applications involv-
ing the export of the material to
distant points will be refused.
HOW THE TIMBER MAY BE PURCHASED.
/. The applicant who wishes to
purchase timber will apply, in per-
son or in writing, to the supervisor
of the reserve, stating
a. How much timber he wishes
to buy;
b. The kind of material desired;
C. Where the timber is located.
2. AS soon as practicable the
supervisor. or his assistant will go
over the ground with the applicant,
and determine whether the timber
may be sold, under what condi-
tions, and at what price,
3. After an agreement is reached
the applicant should sign definite
application. prepared on the regu-
lar form, with the assistance of the
forest officer.
4. After this, the forest officer
marks out the block or area where
the timber may be cut, maps it,
and estimates the amount of tim
Der on the whole, and also the par.
ticular kind applied for. He also
makes general forest description
of the tract, block, or quarter sec
ton.
s. Then the application, togeth-
er with the forest officers descrip-
ton and recommendation, is sent
to the Department at Washington.
6. If approved, the timber will
be advertised in local paper for
thirty days (sixty days in Caliior-
nia). This advertisement will be
waived only in cases where the
amount involved in the sale is OF
800 stumpage value, or less.
7. Bids ON this timber will then
be in order. These bids, together
with a deposit (insuring the gooc
faith of the bidder), should be sent
by the bidders to the receiver Of
the local land office, and the bic
will be forwarded from that Office
to the Department.
s. At the end of thirty day.
Csixty days in California;, the tim
Der will be awarded to the highes
bidder; and if the applicant is th
: successful bidder, the deposit i
, credited or the sale; if not, tn
/, money will be refunded.
, 9 When the timber is swarde,
the applicant will sign a contrac
containing the specifications con
tanned in the original application
as to manner of cutting, scaling
and cleaning up, etc, and, if tn
case seems to justify it, he will b
9 ask ed to give bond, usually in al
amount double the value of tn
timber, to secure the proper fulfill
:. ment of the contract.
a 10. Cutting may then begin.
f IL. The material will be skidde
9 in the customary manner, and tn
purchaser is required to mark IT,
tops of the logs to facilitate scalin.
II. The scaling Will be done i
the customary way by the oil
Scribner rule.
n Railway ties are simply counted
y and 80 ties, s feet in length, equ'
"a 900 feet board measure. 40 tie
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