The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
SIX DISTRICT
HEADQUARTERS
Plans for Development of For
est Service Now Being
Rapidly Worked Out.
SALT LAKE ONE OF POINTS
NUMEROUS OFFICIALS TO BE LO-
GATED IN THIS CITY.
Especial TO The Herald }

Washington, Aug. 9.-Plans for the
forest service field headquarters which
are soon to be established in the west
are being rapidly worked out in de-
tail. Each headquarters will be mod
eled after the Washington office. In
all there will be six district headquar-
tiers, one located at each of the pres
ent inspection district headquarters -
Portland. San Francisco, Albuquerque.
salt Lake, Denver and Missoula, Mont,
or some other points equally we'll or
better located for the purpose.
Experts in Charge.
At the head of each office there will
be district forester and an assistant
district forester. Under these will be
experts in charge of the various lines
OF work. A chief of grazing will have
charge OF range matters A chief of
products will handle the preventative
treatment of timber and strength tests
and study market conditions. A chief
of lands. will look after such matters
as land examinations. The office of
lands deals with questions involving
the validity of claims asserted under
the public land laws; applications for
special use of the resources of the ma
tional forests; changes in boundaries of
forests, and the examination of lands
applied for under the act of June IL,
1906, for agricultural settlement
Will Not Pass on Titles.
The forest service, however. never
passes on the titles themselves. That
is entirely matter for the general land
office to decide. In the case of appli-
cations for homeSteads under the act
of June IL, 1906. the forest service is
called upon to decide whether the land
is in fact more valuable for agriculture
than for timber and If II Is, to recon-
mend its listing as open to entry and
patent. In the case of claims the serv-
ice ascertains whether any facts ex-
ist which seem to show that the claim
is not a legal one, in order that ma
tional forest land may not be unlaw-
fully taken up. But it rests always with
the land office of the interior depart
ment to decide whether the title should
or should not be granted. The branch
of lands in the district forest service
does not mean any new
assumption of land business.
There will also be in each district a
chief of silviculture, who will have
charge of timber sales, planting and
silvical experiments, and a chief of op-
Grafton Inc latter Will supervise the
personnel of the forests: the perma-
nent Improvement work, through an en-
gineer in charge; the accounts of the
including receipts, disburse-
ments and bookkeeping. which will be
directly supervised by an expert ac-
and the routine business of
the district.
Chief of SiIvicuIture.
In each of the lines of work the
will be in the hands of a |
nan who is a specialist and who has |
had thorough experience both in the |
vest and in Washington. The forest
ers and clerks at each district head |
quarters will number about fifty.
The establishment of these field dis
riots will bring the service into more
touch with the public. 1t is
merely the completion of the move
nent started some time ago to have
he forests administered as far as pos
;ible by men actually on the ground. -
The change will not affect the inves-
igative work of the service, which will
,enter, as hitherto, in Washington.
Mr.. Pinchot is expected soon to name
he men who will fill the various posi-
ions