Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-01-29

/, vestigation that .the price Mr. Neast
: offers in his proposal to do the work
for, that is twelve and one-hak cents
t per acre is reasonable and fam
5 price for the character and kind Of
} work proposed to be done.
: Therefore, after full and due con
, sideration of the matter and being
fully advised in the premises it Is
| concluded and decided by theboard
that it is absolutely necessary fol-
/ the orderly and prudent management
of the affairs of the county to have
J the timbered lands in the county
cruised and TO have records and re-
ports of such crossings made and
, filed with the county assessor for use
by him in making up his assessments
: and also for use by the board OF
equalization and that it is impossible
for the assessor of this country to
make an assessment or valuation oil
the timber lands of this county within
many thousands Of dollars OF their
true cash value unless full and
careful cruise of such timbered lands
be made and proper data furnished
therefor, and that 1T is the best in
: terest of the taxpayers of the county
that the cruise be made and the
proposal of Mr.. Nease be accepted
and it is accepted and so ordered.
NJ. G. Nease has also submitted to
the board a contract in Writing
which he proposes to execute, which
said contarct is in words and fig
ures as follows, to-wt:
THIS AGREEMENT, made and en-
tered into this 11thday of Jan. 1916,
between Elmore County, Idaho,
through Mr.. Geo. Butler, Mr.. j, ID.
Whitson, Mr. Sheppard Morgan, the
legally qualified and acting members
of the Board of County Commission
ers in, of and for said County, party
of the first part and NJ G. Nease
of Portland, Oregon, the party of the
second part.
WITNESSETH: That for consider a
ton hereinafter provided to be made,
and paid the second party by the
! first party. the said second party
hereby covenants, contracts and
agrees,
That he will make careful, com
plete and thorough cruise and esti-
mate of the understandable timber
timber situated on all of the patented
and alienated lands in Emore County.
containing merchantable timber in
sufficient quantity to make them
valuable therefor, excepting State
and School Lands neither sold nor
contracted to be sold by the State,
and all lands so cruised shall be
classified in such manner as to
show their adaptability for grazing,
agricultural or other purposes after
the timber is removed, said cruise
and classification shall be completed
on or before September first, 1916.
That upon said cruise being made
from time to time, the second party
hereby agrees to make reports of
such cruise, said report to contain a
topographic sketch, showing elevation
of land above sea level, taken by
means of aneroid barometer; also
showing all openings, clearings, burns,
marshes, rivers, lakes, creeks trails,
roads, water falls, valuable stones
mineral out-cropings and all other
typographical features observed by
the cruisers; said report to include
general description of the charac-
ter of all lands cruised, describing
its adaptability for agricultural, graz
ing or other purposes after the tim
Der is removed; said report to de-
scribe the character of the different
varieties of timber, giving the
average stump diameter, the average
number of sixteen foot logs per tree,
the percentage of surface clear tim
Der, and also describe logging condi-
tons, showing distance to outlets,
such as railroad or driving stream,
said reports also to show damage by
fire or otherwise, and the probability
of fire; and will furnish all blue
prints, blanks, and binders for reports
at his own expense, and all reports
herein agreed to be furnished said
first party shall be upon quality of
paper and of the size and form and !
contain all the data above provided,
accordingly as shall meet with the APP
prevail of said first party.
That in making said cruise and
estimate the second party shall use
as a basis i'm estimating saw timber