Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-02-22
FREE USE OF TIMBER.
Information Regarding how 1t is to be ha,
Rules and Regulations.

| information Regarding how 1t is to be had
| Rules and Regulations.
We are in receipt of the following cir.
cular issued by the Commissioner of the
general land Office regarding the free.
use" of forest reserve timber. The cir
cular is dated January Is, 1902, and will
be of interest to those whom it may con-
Germ:
/. The matter is privilege, and not
a right. 1t may be refused to any per-
son.
2. Who can get timber under free.
use provisions Of law: 1t is usually
granted to settlers, farmers, prospectors
and others residing within or in the
neighborhood of a forest reserve.
8. Who can not get it,: 1t is refused
to corporations, companies, sawmill par
ties and owners of large establishments,
who require larger quantities and are
expected to purchase; and to non.resi-
dents of the state in which the reserve
is located.
4. How much is given, and by whom :
Permits for an amount not exceeding
$40 in stumpage value may be granted
by the forest supervisor. Permits for a
larger amount, and within the stumpage
value of 500, are granted only by the
secretary of the interior.
5. How often the same person can
apply: Not oftener than once year.
6. How long a permit holds good (:
Six months from the date when it was
issued; or less time, in the discretion of
the forest supervisor.
z. What can be obtained: All kinds
of timber; generally dry frewood, dry
poles and logs; also, if really needed,
green timber.
8. How obtained:
(a) Application must be made to the
forest supervisor.
(b) Blank form Of application is fur
nished by the forest officers, and is filed
out and signed by the applicant. Of
necessary, the forest officer will lend as
sistance in filling out the blank applica-
tion).
(c) The timber will have to be locat-
ed by forest officer before any cutting
is done.
8. Terms of this privilege:
(a) Only the timber applied for can
be cut. For instance: No green tim ber
may be taken if dry wood is applied for.
(b) Only 80 much can be cut as was
applied for; and it must be measured,
either standing or in pile, before being
hauled away.
(c) No unmarked live timber can be
cut.
(d) There must be no cutting across
the line of the area assigned. Cutting
across the line is trespass.
(e) The rules about cleaning up tops
and brush must be obeyed. The cutting
area must be left in good, clean condi-
ton.
(f) The rules generally governing for
est reserves must be observed.
(g) The wood, timber, or material de-
rived from it is to be used only at the
place stated in the application. The use
of 1t elsewhere, and especially the sale of
it, makes the cutting trespass, and the
applicant becomes liable to suit and is
always debarred thereafter from the
privilege of free use.
(h) The cutting of timber by local
mill is permissible; but the saving must
be paid for in cash, and can not be done
on shares. Moreover, the saving and
hauling of the lumber must be done in
manner required by the forest officer,
and in such ways as to enable him to
determine whether or not the timber
and lumber are really used in the place
and manner promised in the application.
CD In placing a valuation on timber
given under the free use" act, 81 per NJ
for timber, green or dry, and 25 cents
per cord for fuel wood, will be the mini
mum price considered.
(k) Applications for shakes" etc, in.
volying wasteful use of timber, will be
refused whenever a more economical
and satisfactory cleaning up
Of the tops and lops is not guaranteed.
BINGER Hermann,
Commissioner.