The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-09

quantity and value of the timber thereon,
together with his opinion as to the value
of the land without the timber This sworn
statement must be made before a local
land officer United States commissioner
judge or clerk of a county court il the
immediate vicinity of the land. and. when
filed. must be accompanied by the $40 fee
required by Law in all tiraber or stone en-
tries.
Associations or corporations NAV make
entries under the law. but in addition to
the facts Just rectted must show that each
person forming the corporation is quail
fled 10 make entry in his own right, and
that he is not a member of any other as
ISOLATION or a stakeholder in any other
corporation which has filed an application
or sworn statement for other lands under
the timber and stone laws.
After an application has been presented
TO the local land office, no other person
will be permitted to file upon. the land
embraced therein under any public land
law. until said application shall have
been finally disposed of adverse to the
applicant.
Red Tape Encountered.
After the filing red tape IS encountered
for the first time. The application is first
submitted to the chief of field division
having Jurisdiction. who. If he finds legal
objection to the allowance of the appli-
cation. will return il to the = eal land Of
flee. If the local Officers concur, they
will dismiss the application. subject to
the applicants right of appeal. but if
they disagree. the papers win BE sent to
the commissioner of the general land Of
flee for his action. If. however. the chief
of field division reports faVOrabIy, he
shall designate some officer of the gov
eminent Ga land office special agent. in
spector. or official of the forest service)
to personally visit the land and appraise
both the land and the timber. but no APP
praisal shall be less than $50 per acre,
the minimum price fixed by law
The appraising officer, in arriving at
his conclusions as to the value of the
land and the timber. must consider the
location in which the land is situated the
nearneSs to market. the accessibility of
the timber, the logging and shipping IA
cilities. the proximity of sawmillS and
whether there is any substantial reason
TO believe that the demand for timber and
timber products will increase in the near
future in the neighborhood of the land.
The appraisement must be made by small
est legal subdivisions. or the report must
show that the valuation of the land and
the estimate of timber apply to each and
every subdivision appraised.
Reports Passed Along.
The report of the appraising officer will
be submitted to the proper chief of field
division. and this report must be ap-
proved either by the chief. by the local
land offices, or by the commissioner of
the general land office.
Should the chief of field division deem
the appraisal too low or too high he will
requlre~the appraiser, WITHIN twenty days,
20 resubmit the estimate with such mod
ificationS or explanations as he may deem
proper. when the schedule will be either
or forwarded to the local land
office with a statement OF his objection.
If the local land officers approve the APP
pTaisement. they will sign a certificate
to that effect. but if they sustain the OBJ
lection of the chief they will return the
papers and another appraisement Will be
made by a different officer. This ap-
plies where the land has been approved
by an employee of the general land Of