The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-05-28
RULES ISSUED FOR NATIONAL
FOREST SUMMER HOMES
Secretary of Agriculture Promulsates
Regulations for Administering New
Land-Leasing Law.

WASHINGTON May 24.-The Sec
rotary of agriculture has promulgated
set of regulations for administering
the new law which provides that ma
tional forest land may be leased for
summer home sites and other recre-
ational purposes in tracts of five
acres or less for periods not to exceed
thirty years. This law supplements
the revokable permit system under
which recreational use of the forests
already has developed considerably
Many users have been unwilling to
make substantial improvements be.
cause of the uncertainty of tenure in
yolve6 in the old form of permit,
which, however, is still expected to
meet the requirements of persons who
are not, likely to occupy the land for
more than a few years, or to make
elaborate improvements.
,1be primary object of the term per-
mits,' as the leases are called, is, not
to obtain revenue but to promote the
use of national forest land for recre-
ational purposes, say the regulations.
At the same time, since permittees
receive special benefits, 1t is re "a led
as only fair that they should REIN
barse the government for the expendi-
lture incurred in administering the
forests. The rates range from IS. 90
la year up, in accordance with the 10
cation of the land, the demand for it.
and the use to which it will be put.
The district foresters are authorized
to grant permits to applicants who
intend to make improvements costing
less than 1000 and to use the land
for period of not longer than fifteen
ears. All other permits will be
approved by the forester at Washing.
tor.
Applications must be filed with the
Supervisor of the forest affected, desig
batting the LOCATION: of the land desired
the use to be made of it, and the ap
p1 oximate cost of contemplated i'm
proponents. Examination and sur
+vey of the land will be made by the
forest service free. of charge. An
application for a hotel or summer re-
sort site, must be accompanied by
plans and specifications OF proposed
structures and a statement as to their
probable cost. The law stipulates
five acres as the maximum, and it is
believed that much less than this viii:
suffice for most persons, but permit
tees will not be placed close together
except when it is necessitated by
heavy demand for land in a particu.
Ter locality.
Forest officers are instructed to pre-
vent monopolistic control of desirable
locations by individuals or groupe
and no permits will be given for lands
which are subject to entry under the
homestead law, nor for lands which
will be needed for public or quasi-pub-
lie purposes. Where provision Tor
the needs of recreation users calls
for such a course, the forest service
reserves public camping or outing
grounds, open without charge to all
who desire to make use of them
The regulations provide among 9TH
err things that permittees shall com
ply with State laws and the rules of
the department of agriculture; that
pI emises be kept neat and sanitary:
that all reasonable precautions De
taken to prevent forest fires; and
that in the case of hotel or resort
the permittee shall conduct his bust
ness in a legal and orderly manner.