Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-13
TO TRY FORESTRY.
The U. s. Bureau to Make Plans for Bis Companies.

In letter to the chlet or the bui- eau of Forestry, Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific Rail way, writes these significant words,
 1.-The Northern Pacific Railway Company is a large holder of timber lands in the northwestern states. which are now being logged from ill more or less irregular methods. v,
 Realizing the increasing scarcity of timber, and the probability Of more economical use of forest lands which we have, and understanding that your forefathers lend assistance to landholders in the way of making surveys and plans for economical forest management, would ask whether it would be possible for the Bureau of Forestry to make surveys and plans for this company, looking toward the forest management Of its tracts" s.s. {-z-.,.
 The work for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company is not the first un- dertaken by the Bureau for that con- cern. Last summer a party of for- esters made a study of the Norway pine on the company's lands near Cloauet, Minn., and working plan for these lands is now in preparation.
 The following is the text of the a agreement under which the Bureau of Forestry is to prepare working plans for the Weyerhaeuser Com pany:l .as ''. ..
 The Department of Agriculture or the United States, and Weyerhaeuses Timber Company of St. Paul, County of Ramsey, State of Minnesota, nut ualIy agree together as follows:
 1. The Department of Agriculture, in pursuance of investigations in for estry, and in order to disseminate q knowledge of improved ways of hand ling forest lands, shall, after personal study son the ground by it's agent or agents, prepare a plan for harvesting the forest crop and reproducing the forest on the land of the said Weyer- haeuser Timber Company, situated and described as follows: 1,3OO,OoO ington. 1- att*A
 2 The said plan shall be prepared for the purpose of promoting and in- creasing the present value and use .fuIness of the said land to it's owner, and to perpetuate and improve the forest upon it.
 3. Upon the completion of the said plan and it's acceptance by the said Weyerhaeuser Timber, Company, the Department of Agriculture shall SUD- eryise the execution thereof so far as may be necessary.
 4. The cost of executing the pro- visions of this agreement shall be paid as follows:
 (a) The salaries of all the employ es of the Department of Agriculture engaged in fulfilling this agreement shall be paid by the Department.
 b) A preliminary visit of inspec~ tion, if required, shall be wholly at the charge of the Department.
 (c) Actual and necessary expenses for travelling and subsistence of the agent or agents of the Department working under this agreement, ex- cept as provided in the foregoing paragraph Cb),, shall be paid by the said Weyerhae euser Timber Company. What are, "actual and necessary ex- penses' shall be determined by the printed regulations of the Depart ment. Expenses under this para graph Co are estimated, for the prep aration of this working plan, at five thousand (5,OOO) dollars.
 (d) Necessary assistants shall be furnished by the said Weyerhaeuser Timber Company without cost to the Department. It is estimated that -such assistants will be required for---to prepare this working plan. (e) The Department shall not par ticipate in any degree In the receipts l and expenses arising from said land except as above provided. 1 5. The Department of Agriculture shall have the right to publish and i distribute the said plan and it's re. suits for the information of lumber men, forest owners and others whom ! 1t, may concern,
 l 6. This agreement may be dissoiv' ed by either party upon ten days notice given to the other.
 (Signed) WILLIS l.. MOORE,
 Acting Secretary. l fSigned) WEYERHAEUSER TIM
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