The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-10-22

by the state of its unsurvoyed lands
within the boundaries of the federal
forest reserves and also the loss by
settlement within its reserves, 1t is
provided that the federal government
through the secretary of agriculture
the state of Washington through its
board of land commissioners, a repre-
sentative, these two representatives
to make, with such assistance as may
be necessary, an examination of all
school sections within the forest re-
serves that were unsurveyed at the
time of the establishing of such re-
serves, and also an examination of all
of all forest reserves upon which set
tiers had squatted prior to survey and
included within such forest reserves,
for the purpose of determining the
area and value thereof. The repre-
sentatives shall ther locate tracts of
| land equal in area and value to those
| lost by the state, such tracts to lie
| inside the boundaries of the forest re-
serves, but near their exterior boun-
daries, so that the boundaries of the
reserve may be contracted and the
tracts agreed upon be eliminated from
| the forest reserves, the state obtaining
title to these tracts in exchange for
relinquishing its claim to the scatter
| ed sections throughout the reserves.
The agreement further provides that
the expenses incident to the exchange
shall be born equally by the state and
federal government.
In accordance with the terms Of the
agreement the federal government has
| designated Mr.. Stanton G. Smith as
its representative and the board of
state land commissioners the commits
sioner of public lands Clark " Saw
| idge, as the representative of the state
he to serve without pay, thus saving
the salary that would otherwise have
attached to the appointment.
The working plans agreed upon by
the representatives of the state and
federal government is, l believe, as
| simple, effective and economical as
it could possibly be. Under it's provis-
ions about twenty parties, each con-
sisting of timber cruiser, compass
man and a packer, have been appoint
ed by the Joint commission. These men
had to be acceptable to both parties
| to the agreement, each side having
| the power to reject any man proposed
| by the other. These parties will cruise
the timber and report upon the char
| acter of the soil, etc, on the tracts of
/ land affected by the exchange. | de-
sire to call special attention to the
above provision that these appoint
ments were made Jointly each man to
be acceptable to the other side and no
man was appointed until his record in
his particular line of work had been
carefully looked up. The above meth
W. VI opPOihNlhS lut lOIC6 JORetnGr
with the fact that the administration
of the federal government is demo-
cratic while that portion of the state
government representing the state in
this matter, is republican, seems to
be strong guarantee to the people of
our state that partisan politics will
not be allowed to interfere with eff
cheney and economy in handling this
great project. In addition to the force
mentioned above, The state and federal
government have each appointed an
expert timber cruiser as an inspector.
These men will represent the state
and the government respectively in
going from one crew to another and
checking up their WORK Up to the
present no clerical help has been en-
ployed, that work being taken care of