Commencement Ceremonies
Utah Agricultural College
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1899 UAC Commencement Invitation Graduates 1
1899 Commencement Invitation Graduates 1 Agriculture Fred W. Merrill Civil Engineering John S. Baker William D. Beers Robert J. Gordon Arthur P. Stover Commercial J. Christian Hogenson William Peterson Joseph H. Peterson William W. Simmonds General Science Charles A. Jenson Domestic Arts Ethel Bullen
1899 UAC Commencement Invitation Graduates 2
1899 Commencement Invitation Graduates 2 Short Commercial Blanche Bullen Bert Crane William H. Hillman Hyrum B. Redford Domestic Arts–Manual Training Eliza Larson Blanche Nelson Veanetta Paine
1899 UAC Commencement Invitation, Page 1
1899 Commencement Invitation, Page 1 Compliments of Faculty and Class of ’99. Your presence is requested at the Sixth Annual Commencement Exercises of the Agricultural College of Utah. June 11-13, 1899. No Flowers
1899 UAC Commencement Invitation, Page 2
1899 Commencement Invitation, Page 2 Commencement Week Sunday, June 11th, 11 A.M. Baccalaureate Address … The Rev. Clarence E. Brown Monday, June 12th Senior Class-day Exercises … 10 A.M. Field Day Exercises … 2.30 P.M. Meeting of Literary Societies … 8 P.M. Tuesday, June 13th Graduating Exercises … 11 A.M. Alumni Banquet … 1.30 P.M. Senior Class Ball … 8 P.M.
1899 UAC Commencement Invitation, Page 3
1899 Commencement Invitation, Page 3 Class Day Exercises Monday, June 12–College Auditorium, 10 A.M. 1. Overture … Orchestra 2. President’s Address … William Peterson 3. Recitation … Miss Moench 4. Class History … Ethel Bullen 5. Instrumental Music … Anna Beers 6. Oration … J. C. Hogenson 7. Song … Engineering Glee Club 8. Class Prophecy … W. W. Simonds 9. March … Orchestra Field Exercises–College Campus, 2.30 P.M. 1. Base Ball 2. Basket Ball
1899 UAC Commencement Program, Back Cover
1899 Commencement Program, Back Cover Class of ‘99 Four Years Course Fred Wittemore Merrill, Agricultural. Ethel Bullen, Domestic Arts. James Christian Hogenson, Commercial. Joseph Hans Peterson, Commercial. William Peterson, Commercial. William Walter Simmonds, Commercial. John Simon Baker, Civil Engineering. William Duke Beers, Civil Engineering. Robert John Gordon, Civil Engineering. Arthur Patterson Stover, Civil Engineering. Charles A. Jensen, General Science. Two Years Course Blanche Bullen, Commercial. Bert Crane, Commercial. William Harrison Hillman, Commercial. Hiram Redford, Commercial.
1899 Commencement Program, Page 1 Programme Music --- Orchestra “Daughter of Cuba,” Schlepegrell. Music --- College Choir “Smiling Morn,” Spofforth. Prayer --- The Rev. N. E. Clemenson Music --- College Choir “Spin, Spin,” Jungst. Address --- Gov. Heber M. Wells Music --- Orchestra “Sweet Summer Rose,” C. Armand. Address --- Pres. Joseph T. Kingsbury
1899 Commencement Program, Page 2 Programme == Continued. Music --- Engineering Glee Club Longfellow’s a “Stars of the Summer Night.” b “The Bridge.” Address to Class --- Conferring Degrees --- Pres. Jos. M. Tanner Music --- College Choir “ Hail, Holy Flag,” Bellini. Benediction --- Music --- Orchestra “Our Valiant Boys,” Kretchiner. Senior Class Ball, 8 P.M. Present Invitations.
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Commencement Exercise Programs, 1894-1950, SCAUSU-13p-2s-1Bx001-1900
1900 Commencement Invitation A.C.U. The President in behalf of the Trustees and Faculty invites you to attend the Exercises of Commencement Week, June 10-12, 1900. Agricultural College of Utah, Logan, No Flowers.
1900 UAC Commencement Invitation, Page 1
1900 Commencement Invitation, Page 1 1900. Commencement Week Sunday, June 10th Baccalaureate Address … 11 A.M. Monday, June 11th Senior Class-day Exercises … 10 A.M. Field-day Exercises … 2’30 P.M. Literary Societies … 8 P.M. Tuesday, June 12th Commencement Exercises … 11 A.M. Alumni Banquet … 3 P.M. Senior Class Ball … 8 P.M.
1900 Commencement Program Exercises at the Seventh Annual Commencement of the Agricultural College of Utah June 12th, 1900
1900 Commencement Program, Page 1 Class of 1900. Stanley Crawford Burton P. Fleming Rose Homer William H. Homer, Jr. Joseph W. Jensen Elizabeth Maughan James W. Nelson George F. Taylor
1901 UAC Commencement Invitation Back Cover
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Commencement Exercise Programs, 1894-1950, SCAUSU-13p-2s-1Bx001-1901
1901 UAC Commencement Invitation, Page 1
1901 Commencement Invitation, Page 1 Program The Class of 1901 of the Agricultural College of Utah, desire your presence at the class day exercises, June 17, 1901. Motto: –No Steps Backward. Piano Solo … Prof. J. A. Anderson President’s Address … Almeda Perry Class History … Mattie Stover Vocal Solo, “Only in Dreams,” Words by Hendrick, Music by Reginald De Koven … Miss Retta Brown Oration … Chas. Bailey Smith Class Will … Blanche Cooper Prophecy … Esther Evans Song, “Good-bye My Little Lady.” … College Choir
1901 UAC Commencement Invitation, Page 2
1901 Commencement Invitation, Page 2 Graduates Civil Engineering Charles Bailey Smith. General Science. Esther Evans. Almeda Perry. Mattie Stover. Domestic Arts. Blanche Cooper.
1902 "Student Life" Cover The first issue of the U.A.C. student newspaper, "Student Life."
1903 UAC Commencement Program Back Cover
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1903 Commencement Program Page 1 Program Agricultural College of Utah Class Day – Monday, June 8th. 1 Class Song 2 Class History … A.P. Merrill 3 The Evening Song … College Male Glee Club 4 Class Farce. Cast of Characters Dorothy Lydian Holmgren Alice Girls of the Dormitory Josephine Maughan Mildred Grace Fisher Harold A. P. Merrill Tom College Seniors T. Clark Callister Jack F. D. Pyle Miss Ophelia Judkins–Matron of the Dormitory, C.F. Brown Prof. Emilius Edgerton–of the Faculty, J.T. Caine, III Kathleen–A Celtic maiden, … May Maughan Jonas–The Dormitory “man,” … A.C. Nebeker
1903 Commencement Program Page 2 Graduates T. Clark Callister. Josephine Maughan. A.C. Nebeker. A.P. Merrill. Grace Fisher. John T. Caine, III May Maughan. C.F. Brown. Lydia Holmgren. F.D. Pyle. Officers T. Clark Callister, – President Josephine Maughan, – Secretary A.C. Nebeker, – Treasurer A.P. Merrill – Historian
1903 UAC Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper
1903 Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper Student Life Tuesday Commencement Exercises. Commencement exercises were held Tuesday, June 9th. The following program was rendered: Overture. . . . . Opera House Orchestra Prayer . . . . . . Trustee Evan R. Owens Morning Song .. College Male. Quartette President's Report. President W. J. Kerr Piano Solo, "Ballade" ........... Professor J. A. Anderson Address to Graduates . . . . . . . . ..... Hon. C. S. Varian "When the Swallows Homeward Fly" . . . . College Ladies' Quartette Conferring Degrees and Presenting Certificates . . . .. Address. . . . Governor Heber M. Wells Overture ..... Opera House Orchestra Benediction . . . . . . . . . . Apostle Merrill The following is the list of graduates: WITH DEGREES. Bachelor of Science in Agriculture – John Thomas Caine, III, Logan, Utah. Bachelor of Science in Domestic Science - Lydia Holmgren, Brigham City, Utah; Josephine Farnes Maughan, Petersboro, Utah. Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering- Charles Franklin Brown, Loa, Utah; Thomas Clark Callister, Jr., Fillmore, Utah; Ambrose Pond Merrill, Richmond, Utah; Aquila Chauncey Nebeker, Logan, Utah; Frederick Dale Pyle, Opal, Wyoming. Bachelor of Science in General Science- Grace Fisher, Orleans, Indiana; May Maughan, Logan, Utah. WITH CERTIFICATES. Domestic Science-Lydia Stephens, Malad, Idaho. Commerce -- John Leatham Coburn, Wellsville, Utah; Mildred Forgeon, Cokeville, Wyoming. Manual Training in Domestic Arts - Myrtie, May Barber, Marysvale, Utah; Mary Selina Morrell, Logan, Utah; Theressa Albina Nielsen, Preston, Idaho; Dora Quayle, Dingle, Idaho ; Melissa Jean Simonds, Richfield, Utah ; Louie Thomas, Logan, Utah. Manual Training in Mechanic Arts – Raymond Ralph Castro, Custer, Idaho; William Young, Castle Gate, Utah.
1904 UAC Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper
1904 Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper Commencement Program. Due to the early appearance of our paper the commencement exercises can only be indicated in our column as a matter of record. The senior committee submits the following program: Sunday. 10:30 a.m. Hymn … Choir Prayer … Hymn … Choir Baccalaureate Sermon ...... . Rabbi Reynolds Hymn ... ....... ....... Choir Benediction ............... . Monday-Class Day. Short Musical Program. 10 A. M. Field Sports ........... 11 A. M. Class Luncheons ....... 1 P. M. Senior Class Program .. 8 P. M. President's Address . Geneva Egbert Class History ....... R. B. West Quartette ... G. W. Thatcher, G. B. Thatcher, F. Baugh & A. Farrell. Ivy Oration ....... E. G. Peterson Class Poem ....... Grace Fisher Piano 010 ... ..... Jennie Elia on Class Prophecy ... . . Wm. Jardine Vocal Solo ...... Minnie Peterson Valedictory ... . ... Ray H. Fisher Tuesday. Processional. Prayer . . . . . . . . .. . .... . Hymn ...... ......... .. Choir Students' Addresses . F. D. Farrell, F. L. West, Geneva Egbert. Solo ............. Miss Berkhoel Address to Graduates ....... . Sec. of State Hammond Instrumental Music. Presentation of Diploma and Certificates .. Pres. W. J. Kerr Solo ... .... ..... Miss Berkhoel Hymn ...... ......... Choir Benediction .... . ... .
Cache National Forest (Utah and Idaho)--United States;
First official manual published by the Forest Service describing regualations and policies for the National Forest Reserves.
(p. 1) 1905 "Use Book" U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. FOREST SERVICE. GIFFORD PINCHOT, Forester. THE USE OF THE NATIONAL FOREST RESERVES. REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS. Issued by the Secretary of Agriculture. To take effect July 1, 1905. (no p. 2) (p. 3) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOREST SERVICE, Washington, D. C., June 13, 1905 SIR: I have the honor to present for your approval a draft of regulations and instructions for the use of forest reserves. Very respectfully, GIFFORD PINCHOT, Forester. Hon. JAMES WILSON, Secretary. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., June 14, 1905. The accompanying regulations bearing date June 13, 1905, are, by the authority conferred by law upon the Secretary of Agriculture, hereby approved, made, and established to take effect July 1, 1905, and all previous regulations in conflict with the same are hereby repealed; The Forester is authorized to issue instruction in conformity with these regulations and regulation hereafter established. JAMES WILSON, Secretary. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (1 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] (p. 5) CONTENTS. To the public..........6 History and objects of forest reserves.........7 Relation of forest officers to the public..........12 Private and State rights.......... 13 Jurisdiction..........14 Duration of and charge for permits.......... 16 Free use of timber and stone..........16 Grazing.......... 20 Sale of timber..........31 Special occupancy privileges..........49 Roads and trails..........52 Canals, ditches, reservoirs, etc..........56 Private railroads, telephone lines, etc.......... 58 Trespass and violations.......... 58 Protection against fire..........63 Permanent improvements..........72 Marking reserve boundaries.......... 72 Special investigations upon forest reserves..........73 Field and office equipment..........73 Supervisor's accounts..........75 Records, reports, and correspondence..........78 Protection of game..........81 The Forest Service upon forest reserves..........82 Surveys within forest reserves..........92 Creation of forest reserves--additions and eliminations..........93 APPENDIX. Laws and decisions..........99 Index..........135 (p. 6) TO THE PUBLIC. The timber, water, pasture, mineral, and other resources of the forest reserves are for the use of the people; They may be obtained under reasonable conditions, without delay; Legitimate improvements and business enterprises will be encouraged. Forest reserves are open to all persons for all lawful purposes. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (2 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] Persons who wish to make any use of the resources of a forest reserve for which a permit is required should consult the nearest forest officer. No one but the Special Fiscal Agent, Forest Service, Washington, D. C., is authorized to receive payments for the use of the reserves. Complaints should be made in writing both to the immediate superior of the officer complained against and to the Forester, at Washington. Every user of a forest reserve will be held responsible for knowing the regulations and obeying them. Throughout this book general information and directions are printed in this type. Regulations are printed in this type. Special instructions to forest officers are printed in this type. (p. 7) THE USE OF THE NATIONAL FOREST RESERVES. HISTORY AND OBJECTS OF FOREST RESERVES Forest reserves are for the purpose of preserving a perpetual supply of timber for home industries, preventing destruction of forest cover which regulates the flow of streams, and protecting local residents from unfair competition in the use of forest and range. They are patrolled and protected, at Government expense, for the benefit of the community and the home builder. We know that the welfare of every community is dependent upon a cheap and plentiful supply of timber; that a forest cover is the most efficient means of maintaining a regular stream flow for irrigation and other useful purposes; and that the permanence of the livestock industry depends upon conservative use of the range. The injury to all persons and industries which results from the destruction of forests by fire and careless use is a matter of history in older countries, and has long been the cause of anxiety and loss in the United States. The protection of forest resources still existing is a matter of urgent local and national importance. This is shown by the exhaustion and removal of lumbering centers, often leaving behind desolation and depression in business; (p. 8) 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (3 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] the vast public and private losses through unnecessary forest fires; the increasing use of lumber per capita by a still more rapidly increasing population; the decrease in the summer flow of streams just as they become indispensable to manufacture or irrigation; and the serious decrease in carrying capacity of the summer range. It can not be doubted that, as president Roosevelt has said, "the forest problem is, in many ways, the most vital internal problem of the United States." As early as 1799 Congress provided for the purchase of timberlands to supply the needs of the Navy, and in 1817 further legislation directed the setting apart of public lands for the same purpose, and provided penalties for the unauthorized cutting of any public timber. Other acts, from time to time, made similar provisions for setting apart forestland for specific purposes, but the first attempt to secure a comprehensive administration of the forests on the public domain was in 1871, by a bill introduced in the Forty-second Congress, which failed of passage. In 1876, $2,000 was appropriated to employ a competent man to investigate timber conditions in the United States, and on June30, 1886, an act was approved creating a Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture. On July 1, 1901, this Division became the Bureau of Forestry (now the Forest Service), employing practically all the trained foresters in the United States, and engaged in almost every branch of forest work in every State and territory, except the actual administration of the Government forest lands. This remained in the Department of the Interior, which, although possessing complete machinery for the disposal of lands, was provided with neither system nor trained men for conservative forest management. (p. 9) In the meantime, with the increasing realization that the Nation's timber supply must be protected, and with the immense growth of irrigation interests in the West, the necessity for retaining permanent Federal control over selected forest areas was recognized by a brief section inserted in the act of March 3, 1891, which authorized the President to establish forest reserves. The first exercise of this power was in the creation of the Yellowstone park Timberland Reserve, proclaimed by President Harrison March 30, 1891. The mere creation of forest reserves, however, without provision for their administration, was both ineffectual and annoying to local interests dependent upon their resources. Consequently the Secretary of the Interior, in 1896, requested the National Academy of Sciences to recommend a national forest policy. This resulted in the passage of the act of June 4, 1897, under which, with several subsequent amendments, forest reserves are now administered. On the theory that the management of land, not of forests, was chiefly involved, this law gave the Secretary of the Interior authority over reserves, and provided that their surveying, mapping, and general classification should be done by the United States Geological Survey, and the execution of administrative work by the General Land Office. (p. 10) The result was not satisfactory. The technical and complex problems arising from the necessary use of forest and range soon demanded the introduction of scientific methods and a technically trained force, which could not be provided under the existing system. The advice and services of the Bureau of Forestry were found necessary, but, under the law, could be but imperfectly utilized. The necessity of consolidating the various branches of Government forest work became apparent and was urged upon 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (4 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] Congress by the president and all of the executive officers concerned. Finally, the act of February 1, 1905, transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture entire jurisdiction over the forest reserves except in matters of surveying and passage of title. The regulations and instructions for the use of the national forest reserves here published are in accordance with the act last mentioned and with that of March 3, 1905, making appropriations for the department of Agriculture, which changed the Bureau of Forestry into the Forest Service. They are based upon the following general policy laid down for the Forest Service by the Secretary of Agriculture in his letter of February 1, 1905, to the Forester: "In the administration of the forest reserves it must be clearly borne in mind that all land is to be devoted to its most productive use for the permanent good of the whole people, and not for the temporary benefit of individuals or companies. All the resources of the forest reserves are for use, and this use must be brought about in a thoroughly prompt and businesslike manner, under such restrictions only as will insure the permanence of these resources. (p. 11) "The vital importance of forest reserves to the great industries of the Western States will be largely increased in the near future by the continued steady advance in settlement and development. The permanence of the resources of the reserves is therefore indispensable to continued prosperity, and the policy of this Department for their protection and use will invariably be guided by this fact, always bearing in mind that the conservative use of these resources in no way conflicts with their permanent value. "You will see to it that the water, wood, and forage of the reserves are conserved and wisely used for the benefit of the homebuilder first of all, upon whom depends the best permanent use of lands and resources alike. The continued prosperity of the agricultural, lumbering, mining, and live-stock interests is directly dependent upon a permanent and accessible supply of water, wood, and forage, as well as upon the present and future use of these resources under businesslike regulation, enforced with promptness, effectiveness, and common sense. In the management of each reserve local questions will be decided upon local grounds; the dominant industry will be considered first, but with as little restriction to minor industries as may be possible; sudden changes in industrial conditions will be avoided by gradual adjustment after due notice, and where conflicting interests must be reconciled the question will always be decided from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run." (p. 12) RELATION OF FOREST OFFICERS TO THE PUBLIC The administration of forest reserves is not for the benefit of the Government, but of the people. The revenue derived from them goes, not into the general fund of the United States, but toward maintaining upon the reserves a force of men organized to serve the public interests. This force has three chief duties: To protect the reserves against fire, to assist the people in rather use, and to see that they are properly 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (5 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] used. Forest Officers, therefore, are servants of the people. They must obey instructions and enforce the regulations for the protection of the reserves without fear or favor, and must not allow personal or temporary interests to weigh against the permanent good of the reserves; but it is no less their duty to encourage and assist legitimate enterprises. They must answer all inquiries concerning reserve methods fully and cheerfully, and be as least as prompt and courteous in the conduct of reserve business as they would in private business. They must make every effort to prevent the misunderstanding and violation of reserve regulations by giving information fully and freely. The object should be to prevent mistakes rather than to have to punish them. Information should be given tactfully, by advice, and not by offensive warnings. Forest Officers will be required to be thoroughly familiar with every part of this book, and to instruct the public and assist in making applications for the use of the reserves. (p. 13) PRIVATE AND STATE RIGHTS I.-- IN GENERAL. REG. 1. Persons having valid claims under the public land laws, or legal titles to land within forest reserves, ear free to occupy and enjoy their holdings, but must not interfere with the purposes for which the reserves are created, and must not cut timber or make use of forest reserve land or rights thereon without a permit, except within the limits of their claims, and there [sic] not to the point of committing trespass (See p.60) All questions involving titles to such claims are entirely within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior. The Forest Service will do all in its power to protect such claimants and owners, and will grant preference for the use of privileges to actual residents in or near forest reserves. Forest officers will make special effort to discover and report fraudulent claims and to prevent the perfection of title to them, and will cooperate fully with the officers and agents of the Interior Department to that end. They will immediately inform the Forester of any action in these cases. II.--MINING. No land claims can be initiated in a forest reserve except mining claims, which may be sought for, located, developed, and patented in accordance with law and forest reserve regulations. (See Appendix, p. 102) III.--STATE LANDS. Lands owned or claimed by the States or territories within forest reserves are subject to the general rules given above. Indemnity selection may be made by the States and Territories for school sections 16 and 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (6 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] 36, when within a reserve, and thereupon these sections will become part of a forest reserve. (See Appendix, p. 129.) (p. 14) IV.--LIEU SELECTION. No right now exists to exchange private holdings within forest reserves for lands elsewhere, except where such right was established in the Interior Department before March 3, 1905 (Appendix, p. 103), and except the indemnity-selection right with regard to school sections 16 and 36, referred to above. JURISDICTION. The authority to grant special privileges and rights of way within forest reserve is divided as follows: (A) Applications under any law of the United States providing for the granting of a permission to occupy or use lands, resources, or products in a forest reserve, which occupation or use is temporary in character, and which, if granted, will in no wise affect the fee or cloud the title of the United States, should the reserve be discontinued, are under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture. (B) All applications affecting lands within a forest reserve, the granting of which amounts to an easement running with the land, are within the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior. The following are the more usual rights and privileges under the first class (A), and must be applied for through the forest supervisors: (p. 15) (a) Trails and roads to be used by settlers living in or near forest reserves. (b) Schools and churches. (c) Hotels, stores, mills, stage stations, apiaries, miners' camps, stables, summer residences, sanitariums, dairies, trappers' cabins, and the like. (d) Grazing and restricted agricultural privileges together with such inclosures, etc., as may be necessary for the use of such privileges and not harmful to the forest reserves. (e) Canals, ditches, flumes, pipe lines, tunnels, dams, tanks, and reservoirs, within forest reserves, when no easement in the land occupied is required. (f) Steamboats and ferries operated within the forest reserves. (g) Aerial tramways and wire rope conveyors, when no easement in the land occupied is required. (h) Private railroads, tramroads, telegraph, telephone, or electric power lines, and the plants or buildings necessary for their use, when no easement in the land occupied is required. (i) Other similar privileges which do not amount to a disposal of the land. Forest officers will inform persons inquiring that applications for rights of way under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior should be filed in the local land office. They must not receive or transmit or in anywise act upon applications of this character. All such applications when regularly received at the Interior Department, will, however, be referred to the Department of Agriculture for report as to whether granting them will injuriously affect forest reserve interests, and forest officers will make reports upon such applications when directed to do so by the Forester. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (7 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] (p. 16) Regulations governing applications for the more important rights and privileges under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture, and enumerated in the foregoing list, are prescribed below. DURATION AND CHARGE FOR PERMITS. REG. 2. Permits for the use of the forest reserves, unless otherwise prescribed, may be granted for any term consistent with the interests of the reserves. If land covered by any permit is excluded in a reserve, the permit then expires. A reasonable charge may be made for any permit, right, or privilege, so long as such charge is not inconsistent with the purposes for which the reserves were created. REG. 3. Permits are not transferable, and abandonment in favor of another involves new application and permit in the discretion of the Forester. In case of abandonment and issue of a new permit, the first occupant may sell his improvements to his successor, provided no claim attaches to them by reason of his failure to comply with the terms of his permit. (p. 16) FREE USE OF TIMBER AND STONE. The law gives the Secretary of Agriculture discretion to allow or refuse the free use of forest reserve timber and stone, under such regulations as he may prescribe, by "bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, building, mining, prospecting, and other domestic purposes as may be needed by such persons for such purposes; such timber to be used within the State or Territory, respectively, where such reservations may be located, and by the United States." (p. 17) REG. 4. The free use privilege may be granted to settlers, farmers, prospectors, or similar persons who may not reasonably be required to purchase, and who have not on their own lands or claims, or on lands controlled by them, a sufficient or practically accessible supply of timber or stone for the purposes named in the law. It may also be granted to school and road districts, churches, or cooperative organizations of settlers desiring to construct roads, ditches, reservoirs, or similar improvements for mutual or public benefit. Free use of material to be employed in any business will be refused, as, for example, to sawmill proprietors, owners of large establishments or commercial enterprises, and companies and corporations. The free use privilege will not be given to any trespasser. Whether an applicant is entitled to free use or not must be decided by the forest officer who receives the application. In all cases not clearly covered by the letter of the regulations he should be guided by their spirit, especially as expressed by the term "those who may not reasonably be required to purchase," and by the distinction between personal and commercial use. A member of a corporation is not necessarily debarred from free use of fuel for his own home, although his ability to secure it from another source should be considered if the reserve supply is limited and in demand by more needy 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (8 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] applicants. On the other hand, although a settler may receive a liberal allowance for his own use, he is not entitled to free material for sale or profit. There is no more reason for giving a hotel keeper or a merchant timber without charge, solely to build or warm his hotel or store, than for giving him a stock of goods, yet it need not be refused the proprietor of a small establishment when it will be used chiefly by himself and his family. Prospectors should be assisted to develop their properties, but owners of revenue-producing mines should be required to buy. (p. 18) REG. 5. Except in cases of great and unusual need, no applicant will be given more than two free use permits in one year, nor may the aggregate amount of material granted in the two permits exceed $20 in value, except in the case of schools or road districts, churches, and noncommercial cooperative organizations, when the supervisor may, in his discretion, extend the amount to any value not exceeding $100. The duration of any permit will be fixed by the issuing of officer, and will not exceed six months. In cases of unusual emergency, however, it may be extended by the supervisor, or, if for $20 or less, by a ranger authorized to grant free use. REG. 6. All supervisors, all forest rangers and deputy forest rangers, and such other forest officers as the supervisor may designate, are authorized to grant or refuse free use permits up to $20 in value under these regulations, and to make such restrictions as to quality, amount, location, and removal as they deem necessary to protect the reserves. It is their duty to furnish cheerful assistance to applicants, to act promptly upon all applications, and, in general, to follow as liberal a policy in the matter of free use as the interests of the reserves and the proper performance of their other work will allow. The free use business of forest reserves may be conducted mainly by the rangers. Subject only to general restrictions, instructions, and supervision, they will decide the rights of applicants to the privilege, assign and direct the removal of material, and be responsible for results. REG. 7. No free use material may be taken without a permit. Application for a permit may be made verbally or in writing to any officer authorized to grant it. If it receives his approval he will see that the applicant understands the regulations governing the privilege, and will fix the amount, kind, and location of the material, and the terms under which it must be taken. (p. 19) Both the forest officer and the applicant will sign an agreement to these conditions upon the prescribed form, which will be forwarded at once to the supervisor as a part of the records of his office. The permit will be filled out, signed, and delivered to the applicant by the forest officer, who will also record it upon the form in his notebook. No map, estimate sheet, forest description, or report need be made unless desired by the forest officer for his own use. The agreement forwarded to the supervisor should contain sufficient information to enable the latter to record the case properly. Any additional facts may be stated in a letter. The forest officer issuing the permit, unless he should be the supervisor, who may instruct a ranger to do so, should designate the timber to be cut, by the most practicable means, not necessarily uniform in every case. Living timber must be marked. Dead timber may be marked or, if practicable, an area may be blazed or defined by natural boundaries, and the class of trees to be taken specified. The procedure should be made as simple and economical for both the user and the forest officer as is possible without danger to reserve interests. Although simple methods and the exercise of judgement are encouraged, there should nevertheless be no tendency to underrate the importance of free use business or the necessity of considering the good of the reserve. The use of dead material should be encouraged, and the assignment of green timber, when really necessary, must be where it can best be spared. Low stumps and full use of all trees cut must be required, as well as careful disposal of refuse. Officers in charge of cutting will be held responsible if unnecessary damage is done to young growth or standing timber, or if the reproduction of the forest is not properly considered. The violation of any of the regulations governing free use or of the 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (9 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] terms of permit constitutes trespass and should be dealt with accordingly; but there should be no failure on the part of the forest officer to make all points clear to the applicant before the permit is granted. (p. 20) REG. 8. Timber granted under a free use permit may be cut by an agent or may be sawed by a local sawmill, but the work so done must not be paid for by a share of the material. Moreover, the cutting, sawing, and hauling must be done as required by the forest officer, so that he may be assured the timber is used for the proper purpose. (p. 20) GRAZING. The Secretary of Agriculture has authority to permit, regulate, or prohibit grazing in the forest reserves. Under his direction the Forest Service will allow the use of the forage crop of the reserves as fully as the proper care and protection of the forests and the water supply permits. In new forest reserves where the live-stock industry is of special importance, full grazing privileges will be given at first, and if reduction in number is afterwards found necessary, stockmen will be given ample opportunity to adjust their business to the new conditions. Every effort will be made to assist the stock owners to a satisfactory distribution of stock on the range in order to secure greater harmony among citizens, to reduce the waste of forage by tramping in unnecessary movement of stock, and to obtain a more permanent, judicious, and profitable use of the range. The leading objects of the grazing regulations are: (a) The protection and conservative use of all forest reserve land adapted for grazing. (b) The best permanent good of the live-stock industry through proper care and improvement of the grazing lands. (p. 21) (c) The protection of the settler and home builder against unfair competition in the use of the range. On the other hand, the Forest Service expects the full and earnest cooperation of the stock owners to carry out the regulations. Permits will be issued to graze a certain number of live-stock in each reserve or part of a reserve, so long as no marked damage is done by such stock; but whenever a reserve is being injured by too much stock or the way it is being handled, the number will be reduced until the damage is stopped. In extreme cases, if necessary, all stock will be excluded. Cattle and horses will usually be allowed to graze in all reserves. Sheep and goats will be allowed to 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (10 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] graze in reserves or in parts of reserves where special conditions warrant such privileges, but will be restricted to the areas and grazing periods fixed by the forest officers. Permits will usually be granted for one year, but where all controversies have been settled and only a proper number of stock are allowed, permits may be granted for more than one year, if conditions are favorable. REG. 9. All persons must secure permits before grazing any stock in a forest reserve, except the few head in actual use by prospectors, campers, and travelers, and milk cows and work animals not exceeding a total of six head owned by bona fide settlers, which are excepted and require no permit. Any person responsible for grazing stock without a permit is liable to punishment for violation of the law. (p. 22) REG. 10. The grazing privilege will be granted only to citizens of the United States. REG. 11. The Secretary of Agriculture will determine the number of stock to be allowed in a reserve for any year. The period during which grazing will be allowed is determined by the Forester. The supervisor is authorized to issue grazing permits in accordance with the instructions of the Forester. The grazing season for which permits are issued must not exceed the period authorized, and the total number of stock included in all permits issued must not exceed the number allowed by the Secretary's order. Applicants for grazing permits will be given preference in the following order: (a) Small near-by owners. Persons living in or close to the reserve whose stock have regularly grazed upon the reserve range and who are dependent upon its use. (b) All other regular occupants of the reserve range. After class (a) applicants have been provided for, the larger near-by owners will be considered, but limited to a number which will not exclude regular occupants whose stock belong or are wintered at a greater distance from the reserve. (c) Owners of transient stock. (p. 23) The owners of stock which belong at a considerable distance from the reserve and have not regularly occupied the reserve range. The applications of new settlers owning small bands of stock will be considered in all cases except where the range is fully occupied by small owners. Priority in the occupancy and use of the range will be considered, and preference will be given to those who have continuously used the range for the longest period. The number of stock allowed an applicant will be determined upon the merits of each case. Whenever it is found necessary to reduce the number of stock allowed in any reserve or portion of a reserve, the small owners of stock are first provided for; the reduction is then made on the number allowed the larger owners on the basis of a sliding scale suited to the conditions in each case. Class (c) stock will be excluded before the other classes are reduced. The owners of stock which belong in the State or Territory in which a forest reserve is located will be given the preference, and resident owners will be considered first; but owners of stock coming from adjoining States or Territories will also be considered when circumstances warrant it. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (11 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] REG. 12. The supervisor will set and give public notice of a date each year on or before which all applications for grazing permits must be presented to him. Permits will be refused to persons who do not file their applications within the required limit, unless satisfactory reasons are given. Applications and permits will be divided into two classes, cattle and horses, and sheep and goats. Permits for each class will be numbered separately and consecutively, and a separate set of records will be kept for each. At the end of each month the supervisor will report the name and address of each person to whom he has issued a permit, the number and class of stock covered by it, and the district or portion of the reserve in which the stock are to be grazed. Whenever there is dispute between applicants for the privilege of grazing stock on the same area or district, if the supervisor is unable otherwise to determine who is best entitled to a permit, he will notify the applicants to appear before him at a stated time and place, then and there to make a statement of their claims. After all evidence has been presented, the supervisor will decide who shall be granted permits, and his decision will be final unless written notice of appeal to the Forester is given him within ten days thereafter. Appeal will avail only in case of error. Upon approval of a grazing application the supervisor will immediately notify the applicant. Whenever a grazing application is disapproved or the number of stock applied for is reduced, the supervisor will at once notify the applicant to that effect. (p. 24) Whenever the supervisor desires such information, he is authorized to require applicants to file a supplemental certificate setting forth the location and area of their ranches and also of the public lands used for grazing, the number and class of stock owned, and the length of time they have occupied the range. APPLICATION FOR GRAZING PERMIT. No. ____, _____, 190__. I, ____, of ____, being a citizen of the United States and a resident of the State of ____, do actually own and make application for the privilege of pasturing-- ____head of cattle ____head of horses ____head of sheep, branded, ____, within the ____ Forest Reserve, from ____, 190_, to ____, 190_: Provided, That the animals shall not intrude upon any areas upon which grazing is prohibited. It is my desire to graze said animals upon that part of the reserve described as follows: This application is made for my own exclusive use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of any other person. If it is granted, I do hereby agree to pay the amount due for grazing fees promptly upon receipt of notice that it has 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (12 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] been granted, and to comply fully with all forest-reserve rules and regulations now or hereafter adopted. I also hereby bind myself and employees engaged in caring for the animals while on the reserve to extinguish all camp fires started by myself or any of my employees before leaving the vicinity thereof, and to aid in extinguishing all forest fires within the territory occupied by me or my employees. I also agree to forfeit the permit for a violation of any of its terms or of the terms hereof, or whenever an injury is being done the reserve by reason of the presence of the animals therein. _____ _____, (P. O. address) ____, Approved for-- ____ cattle, ____ horses, ____ sheep. (p. 25) REG. 13. Reserves in which grazing is allowed will be divided into districts approved by the Forester, and such range divisions made among applicants for the grazing privilege as appear most equitable and for the best interest of the reserve. When required for the protection of camping places, lakes and streams, roads and trails, etc., or of areas which are to be reforested, stock will be excluded from specified areas for such period of time as is necessary. At the end of each season the supervisor will go over the grazing grounds without delay and examine the effect of grazing on the reserve. He will make a full report to the Forester, with recommendations as to the number of stock to be allowed the following year, the division of the range into districts, and the areas to be opened or closed to grazing. REG. 14. Permits will be granted only to the actual owners of stock and for their exclusive use and benefit, and will be forfeited if sold or transferred in any manner or for any consideration without the written consent of the Forester. Persons owning cattle and horses which regularly graze on ranges located along the boundary line and only partially included within a forest reserve may be granted permits for such portion of their stock as the circumstances appear to justify, but may be required to herd or so handle their stock as to prevent trespassing by that portion for which a permit is not granted. REG. 15. Grazing applications must not cover more stock than the applicant owns and desires to graze in the reserve, and must show the marks and brands of the stock, the portion of the reserve or district in which pasture is desired, and the grazing period. Permits will be refused or canceled for false statement of the number of stock owned. (p. 26) REG. 16. Persons who fail to use their grazing permits must notify the supervisor before the opening of the grazing season, or immediately thereafter, and give satisfactory reasons for not using the permit, or they may be denied the grazing privilege the following season. REG. 17. When an owner who has a permit is ready to drive in his stock he must notify the supervisor, by mail or otherwise, stating the number, and if cattle or horses, giving the brands; he must also notify the supervisor when the stock is removed from the reserve. If called upon to do so, he must provide for having his stock counted before entering the reserve, or at any time afterwards when the number of stock appears to be greater than the number covered by permit. Whenever any stock is removed before the expiration of the permit, it can not be replaced by other stock to fill out the number covered by permit until such action has been approved by the supervisor. REG. 18. Each person or group of persons granted grazing privileges will be required to repair all damage to roads or trails caused by the presence of their stock in any portion of a reserve, and to build any new roads or trails found necessary for the proper handling of the stock. They will also be required to fence any spring or seep which is being damaged by tramping, and, if necessary, pipe the water into troughs for stock-watering purposes. Such 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (13 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] troughs must be open for public use. REG. 19. All persons holding grazing permits will be required to salt their stock regularly and at such places as may be designated by the forest officers. REG. 20. Sheep must not be bedded more than six nights in succession in the same place, except when bedding bands of ewes during lambing season, and must not be bedded within 500 yards of any running stream or living spring. (p. 27) REG. 21. All stock which is grazed under permit in any forest reserve will be required to conform to the quarantine regulations of the Bureau of Animal Industry and of the State or Territory in which the reserve is located. Whenever the stock in any locality is known to be infected with a contagious disease, or notice to that effect has been given the Forester by the Bureau of Animal Industry, the owners of all stock to be grazed in forest reserves must, if required to do so, submit the stock to inspection, and, if found necessary, have such stock dipped or otherwise treated before they are allowed to enter. At any time during the period for which a grazing permit has been issued, if the stock are found to be infected with a contagious disease, they must be dipped or otherwise treated in accordance with the instructions of the inspectors, or the permit will be canceled and the stock removed from the reserve. REG. 22. Persons who own, or who have leased from the owners, land within any reserve which they desire to use for grazing purposes, will be allowed to cross the reserve lands with their stock to reach such private holdings, but must make application to the supervisor for the privilege of crossing. The application must be accompanied by a certificate of title showing the description and ownership of the land, and, if leased from an owner, a certified copy of the lease, and must state the number of stock to be taken in, the length of time required to cross the reserve land, the route over which the stock is to be driven, the date of entering, and the time when the stock will start out again; also how much stock the owned or leased land will carry during the period it is proposed to keep the stock upon it. (p. 28) When any such application is made to the supervisor he will examine it, and if he finds it reasonable and just and made in good faith for the purpose of utilizing such private holdings only, he will approve it and forward to the Forester. After the Forester approves the application due notice will be given the applicant through the supervisor, and he may then take his stock in. REG. 23. Persons wishing to drive stock across any part of a forest reserve must make application to the supervisor, either by letter or on the regular grazing application form, for the privilege of grazing the stock on the reserve en route, and must have a permit from the supervisor before entering the reserve. The application must state the number of stock to be driven across the reserve, the date of starting, and period required for passage. Grazing must be confined to the limits and along the route designated by the supervisor, and will only be allowed for the period actually necessary for stock to cross the reserve. If occasion demands, forest rangers will be detailed by the supervisor to accompany the stock and see there is no delay or trespassing. Whenever it appears necessary for stock to cross regularly any portion of a forest reserve in which grazing is prohibited, the supervisor will make a full report of the facts, with a description of the regular route traveled, the width of driveway necessary to allow the proper grazing of stock across the reserve, the number and class of stock which will probably cross, and the number of days allowed for crossing the portion of the reserve referred to. Upon receipt of such report by the Forester, if the circumstances warrant such action, a regular driveway will be established and the privileges to be granted will be defined. (p. 29) REG. 24. The construction of corrals upon forest reserve lands covering an area of not more than one (1) acre, to be used in connection with the proper handling of live stock which are permitted to graze thereon, will be allowed 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (14 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] whenever in the judgment of the forest officers such corrals are necessary and will not be detrimental to the proper care of the reserve. The construction of inclosures upon forest-reserve lands containing not more than three hundred and twenty (320) acres for pasturing saddle horses, beef steers, etc., will be allowed, when such inclosures are necessary for the proper handling of the stock allowed to graze upon the reserves, as a special privilege for which an annual rental of not less than four (4) cents per acre will be charged in addition to the regular grazing fee. The fencing up of watering places for the purpose of controlling adjoining range will not be allowed, and in fencing pastures provision must be made to allow free access to water by any stock grazing under permit. The application must state the exact location and area of the land to be inclosed, and must be accompanied by an agreement to pay the annual rental in advance and to comply with all forest reserve rules and regulations. The privileges granted by this regulation confer no property rights whatever, and all improvements will revert to the Government upon the expiration of the grazing permit, or of its renewal, unless the Forester allows other disposition. If occasion demands, forest rangers will be detailed by the supervisor he will forward it to the Forester, with a recommendation for its approval or rejection. If approved by the Forester the applicant will be notified through the supervisor, and upon payment to the Special Fiscal Agent, Washington, D. C., of the rental for the year the construction or occupancy may begin. (p. 30) The privileges granted under Regulation 24 confer no property right whatever, and all such improvements will revert to the Government upon the expiration of the grazing permit, or of its renewal, unless the Forester allows other disposition. REG. 25. On and after January 1, 1906, a reasonable fee will be charged for grazing all classes of live stock on forest reserves. In the beginning the minimum price charged will be as follows, depending upon the advantages and locality of the reserve: From twenty (20) to thirty-five (35) cents per head for cattle and horses for the regular summer grazing season, and from thirty-five (35) to fifty (50) cents per head for the entire year; from five (5) to eight (8) cents per head for sheep for the regular summer grazing season, and from eight (8) to ten (10) cents per head for goats for the regular summer grazing season. These prices will be gradually advanced when the market conditions, transportation facilities, and demand for reserve range warrant it, but the grazing fee charged will in all cases be reasonable and in accordance with the advantages of the locality. An extra charge of two (2) cents per head, on grown stock only, will be made for sheep and goats which are allowed to enter the forest reserves for the purpose of lambing and kidding. (See Appendix, p. 130.) REG. 26. Breeding stock entering either before or after the breeding season will be counted on an average percentage basis, which will be fixed hereafter by the Forester to fit the conditions in each reserve. All stock 6 months old and over, at the time of entering, will be counted at the same rate as grown stock. REG. 27. Any period in excess of the regular summer grazing season will be charged for at the rate for the entire year, but no charge will be made for the crossing permits required by regulations 22 and 23. (p. 31) REG. 28. All grazing fees are payable for each year strictly in advance. When an applicant for a grazing permit is notified by the supervisor that his application has been approved, he will remit the amount due for grazing fees to the Special Fiscal Agent, Washington, D. C., and upon the return of the receipt to the supervisor a permit will be issued allowing the stock to enter the reserve and remain during the period specified. WILD HAY. G. 29. Wild grass upon forest reserves may be cut for hay under permits issued by supervisors. A reasonable charge per acre may be made, to be fixed by the supervisor under general instructions form the Forester. Application should be made in writing to the supervisor, directly or through a ranger, stating the location and area of the tract 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (15 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] desired and the price offered. Applications or permits to cut hay need not be upon regular blanks. Supervisors anticipating business of this kind should report to the Forester and suggest a price per acre for his approval. Under instructions then received they will issue permits, retaining duplicates, agreed to and signed by the applicant, for office records. They will not permit cutting until the purchase price has been forwarded to the Special Fiscal Agent. (p. 31) SALE OF TIMBER. All timber on forest reserves which can be cut safely and for which there is actual need is for sale. Applications to purchase are invited. Green timber may be sold except where its removal makes a second crop doubtful, reduces the timber supply below the point of safety, or injures the streams. All dead timber is for sale. (See Appendix, p. 101.) (p. 32) The prime object of the forest reserves is use. While the forest and its dependent interests must be made permanent and safe by preventing overcutting or injury to young growth, every reasonable effort will be made to satisfy legitimate demands. Timber cut from forest reserves may be handled and shipped like any other timber, except that it will not be sold for shipment from regions where local consumption requires the entire supply, or is certain to do so in the future. Also, the law prohibits export from the State of timber cut from any Idaho forest reserve or from the Black Hills Forest Reserve in South Dakota. (See Appendix, p. 108.) Any one may purchase except trespassers against the law or the regulations governing the reserves. There is no limit, except the capacity of the forest, to the quantity which may be sold to one purchaser, but monopoly to the disadvantage of other deserving applicants will not be tolerated. This time allowed for the removal of timber depends upon the amount purchased. It will always be sufficient for reasonably diligent work, but speculation by holding for rise in value will not be permitted. In all cases the first step for the prospective purchaser is to consult the nearest forest officer. Inquiries or applications should never be sent to Washington direct. Remittances of money or complaints against the conduct of local officers are the only communications which applicants or purchasers should make to the Washington office during any stage of a sale. (p. 33) There are three classes of sales: (a) Of not over $20 worth of dead timber. These sales may be made by any forest ranger or deputy forest range, as well as by any supervisor, except in California. No delay is required. The applicant should consult in person with the nearest ranger, who will designate the timber, fix the terms of sale, and at once, upon assurance that full advance payment has been forwarded to the Special Fiscal Agent, permit cutting and removal. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (16 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] (b) Of not over $100 worth of lead or living timber. Application may be made through any ranger, but the forest supervisor must approve the sale. Except in California, the only delay involved is the time required for an estimate and report to the supervisor. Upon the latter's approval and permission, after the forwarding of full or partial payment, cutting may begin. In California every sale of any class must be advertised for sixty days. (See Appendix, pp. 101, l05.) (c) Of over $100 worth of dead or living timber. Sales involving more than $100 must always be advertised and can, as a rule, be approved only by the Forester. The application and examining officer's report, if endorsed by the supervisor, are sent to Washington. Upon the Forester's approval an advertisement for bids is published in the local papers for thirty days (sixty days in California), after deposit to cover this expense has been sent by the applicant. If the applicant is the successful bidder, his approved application, the published notice, and his accepted bid form the agreement. His deposits apply upon the first payment, and the supervisor permits cutting at once. If his bid is unsuccessful his deposits are returned. In sales exceeding $100 purchasers may be required to give bond to comply with the terms of agreement. (p. 34) KINDS AND METHODS OF SALES. REG. 30. All forest rangers and deputy forest rangers are authorized, except in California, to sell dead timber in amounts not exceeding $20 in value, and all forest supervisors to sell dead or living timber worth not more than $100. The Forester is authorized to make timber sales for larger amounts, and to delegate this authority in special cases. The kinds and methods of sales are as follows: (A) BY FOREST RANGERS AND DEPUTY FOREST RANGERS (CALIFORNIA EXCEPTED). Dead timber only, in amounts not over $20 in value. Advertisement not required. Request to purchase dead timber not over $20 in value may be acted upon by any forest ranger or deputy forest ranger, as well as by any supervisor. The ranger makes an examination, fixes the terms of sale, and designates the timber to be cut. Formal application is made out in duplicate and signed by the purchaser, who also forwards payment in full to the Special Fiscal Agent, with a letter of transmittal given him by the ranger. Upon being shown the purchaser's receipt, if the payment is made by express or postal money order, or the draft itself, if by national bank draft on New York, as assurance that the payment has been forwarded, the ranger will approve both copies of the application, and at once permit cutting and removal of the dead timber. He will at once forward one copy to the supervisor, give the other copy to the purchaser, and record the terms of the sale for his own reference. He will notify the supervisor as soon as the timber is removed. (p. 35) (B) BY FOREST SUPERVISORS. Dead or living timber, in amounts not over $100 in value. Advertisement not required, except in California. n examination on the ground of the timber desired is made by the supervisor, or for him by a subordinate. The results are recorded and discussed with the applicant, and form the basis of his formal application, which is filled out in duplicate and signed by him. The application, with the report of the forest officer who made the examination, is then submitted to the supervisor for decision. If this is favorable, the applicant, except in California, forwards first payment or full payment, as agreed upon, to the 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (17 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] Special Fiscal Agent. Upon assurance that this has been done, the supervisor approves the application and permits cutting to begin. One copy of the approved application is retained by the supervisor, and one returned to the purchaser with a copy of the regulations and instructions for the use of the forest reserves. In California, where all sales must be advertised, the steps are the same until the supervisor has received the formal application in duplicate, signed by the applicant. If he decides to allow it, the applicant then forwards to the Special Fiscal Agent a deposit of $100 to cover publication of notice instead of the first payment, as in a nonadvertised sale. Upon assurance that this has been done the supervisor approves the application as before, but places one copy on file to await the outcome of the bids, and forwards the other to the Forester to serve as a basis of advertisement. Upon receipt of the application and deposit by the Washington office the advertisement is forwarded to the supervisor for publication. Prospective purchasers then submit their bids to the Forester, at the same time forwarding to the Special Fiscal Agent the deposits required by the advertisement. Upon evidence that the necessary deposit in each case has been made, the bids are opened by the Forester, and the supervisor is notified of the successful bidder. If the original applicant is the successful bidder, his application, the published notice, and his approved bid form an agreement. The supervisor then delivers to the purchaser the approved application which he had retained, keeping a copy for his own reference. (p. 36) If the successful bidder is another, the agreement is prepared in triplicate in the Washington office and sent to the supervisor, who has the three copies executed by the purchaser, approves all of them by signature, forwards one to the Washington office, places one on file, and delivers the third to the purchaser. (c) SALES BY THE FORESTER. All sales exceeding $100 in value. Only after advertisement. Upon assurance that the deposit ($100 in California, $50 elsewhere) to cover publication of notice has been forwarded to the Special Fiscal Agent, the steps up to this point being as in advertised sales previously described, the supervisor forwards both copies of the application to the Forester for approval, accompanied by the examining officer's report and his own definite recommendations. If he recommends approval of the application unmodified, he will also initial both copies. If the application is approved by the Forester, the sale is advertised and awarded as described before. If the original applicant is the successful bidder, one copy of the application is approved by the Forester, and returned to the purchaser through the supervisor. The duplicate is placed on file in the Washington office, and a third copy is made and sent to the supervisor for his information. If the successful bidder is not the applicant, a contract is prepared in triplicate in the Washington office, and sent to the supervisor, who retains one copy and has the purchaser execute two copies, which are returned to the Washington office for the approval of the Forester. When approved, one copy is placed on file in the Washington office and the other returned to the purchaser through the supervisor. Cutting of material covered by deposit may begin when the purchaser has signed the contract, and need not await final approval of the Forester. (p. 37) PAYMENTS AND DEPOSITS. REG. 31. All timber must be paid for, either in full or in installments, before it is cut. Should the purchaser fail to secure the estimated quantity upon which his advance was based, the excess will be returned if he has complied with the terms of the sale. In no case will the cutting of timber be allowed to exceed the amount actually paid for. REG. 32. In any sale, unless otherwise ordered, payment for the timber may be made in one lump sum, or in two or more equal payments. In sales not exceeding $100 in value the number of partial 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (18 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] payments must not exceed three, and must be made at intervals of thirty days. In sales requiring advertising the deposit to cover the cost of advertising and the deposit required with the bid will be applied on the first payment. REG. 33. All money, whether payments, deposits, or settlements, must be sent direct by the payer to the Special Fiscal Agent and not transmitted through a forest officer. Money must always be sent by postal money order, express money order, or national bank draft on New York. Other forms of drafts, cash, checks, or certified checks will not be accepted. The payer will be furnished by the forest officer with a form letter of transmittal bearing the sale number. The forest officer conducting a sale may consider the exhibit by the payer of his receipt for a postal or express money order, or of the draft itself, if draft is sent, in either case payable to the Special Fiscal Agent only, as satisfactory assurance that the remittance has been made. He may allow cutting to proceed upon such evidence without waiting for notice that the money has been received, but will not allow removal except in sales not exceeding $20. (p. 38) CONDITIONS AND BONDS. REG. 34. The period allowed for the removal of the timber, which in no case will exceed five years, must be fixed in the agreement. If at the expiration of this period the purchaser has not removed all his timber, he forfeits all right to any timber not yet removed and to his purchase money; but in case failure to comply with this restriction was unavoidable, the Forester may, in his discretion, extend the limit to prevent hardship. The privilege of assigning any rights obtained under a sale may be granted only by the Forester, and only in cases of emergency and when the transaction is not for the purpose of speculation. REG. 35. Timber cut from any forest reserve may be sold in any market anywhere, except from forest reserves in Idaho or from the Black Hills Forest Reserve in South Dakota. REG. 36. In any sale involving more than $100 the purchaser may be required to give bond to carry out his agreement. This bond, which will also cover the operation of a sawmill, if permit for one is given in connection with the sale, will be for such amount as the Forester may prescribe. The responsibility of the sureties must be established by the supervisor. REG. 37. Failure to observe any of the terms of the agreement constitutes breach of contract. Violation of the following four rules constitutes trespass: (a) No timber may be cut until it is paid for. (b) No timber may be removed until it has been measured by a forest officer. (c) Timber may be cut only on the area designated by the forest officer. (d) No unmarked living trees may be cut, if marking is required by the officer in charge or by the terms of the sale. (p. 39) ADVERTISEMENTS AND BIDS. In California no reserve timber may be sold without advertisement for competitive bids; elsewhere this is required only when the amount is appraised at more than $100. Notice must be published for not less than thirty days (in California sixty days) in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the State or Territory (in California in the county and also in the capital). REG. 38. Advertisements of sales must announce the time and place of filing bids and the approximate amount and location of the timber, and will refer intending purchasers to the forest supervisor for full information. Before any notice is published, the applicant is required to deposit with the Special Fiscal Agent of the Forest Service a sum sufficient to cover the cost of advertising. If the depositor be the successful bidder, this amount is credited on the purchase price of the timber; but if the timber is awarded to another, the deposit is returned. If the applicant 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (19 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] should fail to bid during the time fixed for filing bids, the deposit may, at the discretion of the Forester, be retained to pay the cost of advertising. A reasonable cash deposit, to be specified in the published notice, must accompany each bid. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids. (See Appendix, pp. 101, 104.) REG. 39. In sales above $500, allotments, at the highest price offered, may be made to several bidders to prevent monopoly. REG. 40. After timber has been duly advertised but not sold, all or any portion of it may be sold without further notice by publication, in the manner prescribed for sales without advertisement. (See Appendix, pp. 101, 104.) (p. 40) ADVANCE CUTTING REG. 41. The Forester may, for good reasons, in his discretion, permit the cutting and removal of timber in advance of an advertised sale, when the applicant has made a deposit covering the value of the timber to be cut and removed, and has agreed to pay for such timber at the rate of the highest price bid. (See Appendix, p. 140.) NUMBERING OF SALES. All sales will be numbered in series maintained by each supervisor instead of in State series as heretofore. Every reserve, group of reserves, or division of a reserve which has a supervisor will have a series of approximately consecutive numbers, following that of the last pending sale, or, if none is in progress, beginning at No. 1 with the first application received after July 1, 1905. Each sale must be given its number as soon as the formal application has been favorably considered and before any payment or deposit has been forwarded, in order that the letter of transmittal may bear the number and thus enable the Special Fiscal Agent to give proper credit for the sum received. Since the procedure in sales of class (c) requires the forwarding of deposits before the application is approved by the Forester, it may happen that no sale is made. The number will have been used as a matter of record, however, and must not be applied again, although the result is a break in the consecutive numbering of actually consummated sales. When a ranger makes a sale of class (a) He must number the approved application and the purchaser's letter transmitting payment without duplicating a number used in the same series by another ranger or by the supervisor. In order to prevent duplication, each supervisor will number all application blanks he gives to rangers. (p. 41) EXAMINATION OF TIMBER APPLIED FOR. Unless full information is already at hand, the first step after the receipt of any preliminary application is to examine the timber. The most vital question concerning the removal of any living timber is whether it can be spared. To decide this question the approving officer must know whether another growth of timber will replace the one removed or whether the land will become waste; whether the water supply will suffer; and whether the timber is more urgently needed for some other purpose. One of the foremost points to be studied is the reproduction of the forest under various conditions. The number of small trees, their kind, their vigor, the seed-bearing capacity of those which would be left after cutting, the possible destruction of the young growth by logging or fire, must all be considered fully. The growth on similar areas which have been burned or logged affords the best guide in this study. If the timber may be cut safely, then the best method of cutting must be decided; whether all the trees below a certain diameter should be left to form the next crop, or only selected seed trees; whether the surrounding timber will furnish enough and the right kind of seed; whether the cutting may be unrestricted or confined to strips; or, in other words, what system will be surest to bring about satisfactory reproductions. All this, as well as to fix the quantity and location of material to be sold, requires an accurate knowledge of conditions on the ground sufficient not only to decide upon the original application, but to permit any change which may seem necessary. Therefore, except in small dead timber sales of class (a), or in free use cases, the examination of any tract from which timber is sought must provide for: 1. Mapping. 2. Estimate of timber. 3. Forest description. 4. Recommendations, and reasons for them. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (20 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] MAPPING. Every report upon a tract of timber recommended for sale must contain a map. Any scale may be used, but what it is must always be stated. The size and scale of maps will be fixed mainly by the size of areas covered by estimates and descriptions. The location of the entire proposed cutting area should be shown upon a single map. This may be as large as convenient to mail and handle, and, if the scale permits, all the other features may be shown upon it also. (p. 42) In that case separate block or compartment maps are unnecessary, the blocks being indicated by dotted lines. Very large tracts require location maps on a small scale, showing only the outline of the proposed cutting, the section lines or other location points, perhaps the private lands, if any, and dotted lines to represent the accompanying block maps on a larger scale. The latter may then be as numerous and as large as necessary. The proposed cutting, as recommended by the examining officer and described in his estimate and description, and not necessarily as suggested by the applicant, must always be clearly defined on the map; so must every part for which there is a separate estimate, description, or recommendation. ESTIMATING. Always estimate the timber upon the definite cutting area recommended and shown on the map. An average for any other area of which this tract forms a part is insufficient. The only exception to this rule is when the location of a definite cutting area is impracticable. If uncertain conditions of sale or differences between the forest officer and the applicant make it likely that the area recommended may be extended or reduced, then estimates for both the larger and smaller area are required. Otherwise the cutting area should be fixed and estimated by itself, without reference to other lands, whether in the same section or quarter section or not. Show the location of survey lines on the map, but the estimate sent in need not cover any land not in the cutting area. The estimate submitted with an application must be definitely located, so as to show differing local conditions. A large tract should be divided into compartments clearly marked by forest types or natural boundaries. Legal subdivisions are seldom useful. Compartments may be as small as changing conditions of forest of topography require, but should seldom be more than 160 acres in area. Large tracts will require separate estimates for each compartment. A tract of less than 160 acres will require but one estimate unless it contains more than one distinct forest type. Each estimate must refer by number to a compartment outlined and numbered on the map. (p. 43) Estimates must be for the kinds and sizes of timber actually applied for. Estimates for other kinds or other sizes will not answer. DESCRIPTION. A forest description on the form prescribed must be made for each proposed cutting area or compartment. Other facts should be added if necessary. Whenever the forest on different compartments requires different treatment, each should be described separately, and the terms of sale should provide for the needs of each compartment. RECOMMENDATIONS. Among the points to be covered are: Effect upon waterflow, possible profit in holding the timber for a future higher price, the need for the timber, the possibility or difficulty of getting it elsewhere, the reliability of the applicant, and the price which should be obtained. The latter is of great importance, especially in sales not requiring advertising, and should be decided not by custom or habit, but by the actual value of the timber as determined by its character, ease of logging, and distance from market. Timber on a gentle slope and near a mill or drivable stream may be worth more than twice as much as less accessible timber. The forest officer should find out the cost of marketing all material and recommend prices which will make it all about equally desirable. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (21 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] If the space for recommendations in the description blank is insufficient additional sheets may be used. The description of each one of several compartments on one tract must contain separate recommendations unless all compartments are to be handled alike. PREPARATION OF FORMAL APPLICATION. If the forest officer decides to recommend a sale he will explain to the applicant all the requirements of the regulations, and the special conditions for that particular sale. All points about the proposed cutting must be discussed fully before the application is made out. The following points must be considered, so far as they apply, and the forest officer will add others when necessary: (p. 44) 1. To what minimum breasthigh diameter should cutting be allowed? 2. Should seed trees be left; and if so, how many to the acre? 3. To what diameter in the tops should trees be utilized? 4. Should the brush be poled, and in what manner? 5. Should the purchaser clean up down timber not cut by him, burn brush, burn tops and lops, etc.? 6. How low should the stumps be (usually not higher than the tree is thick)? 7. Should felling be done with saws? 8. Should hewing be allowed except at skidways and openings? 9. During what months should cutting be allowed? (This depends on the danger of destructive insects breeding in freshly cut timber.) 10. What material may be used for skidways, road material, and camps, and should it be paid for? 11. Where should applicant be allowed to locate camps, roads, dams, etc.? 12. Should cutting be restricted to the smallest area possible, or may it be scattered over a large tract? In applications for dead timber the following points should also be considered: 1. Should all, or only standing, dead timber be taken? 2. Should all wood sound enough for fuel be taken? 3. Should all above a given size (what size?) be taken? (p. 45) 4. Should purchaser pile the unsound portions of down trees from which he uses the sound parts? Dead timber includes only timber, standing or down, which is actually dead, and in no case trees which are apparently dying. All evergreen trees having any green leaves are classed as living timber. Since deciduous trees, such as tamarack, and most hardwoods, have no foliage in winter, special care is needed to decide when they are dead. Trees dead at the top and green below, generally called spike-topped trees, are classed as living, and must never be cut under dead timber permits. The dead portion may, however, be scaled and charged for as dead timber. Except when specially agreed, the purchaser will not be required to cut timber which may die after the date of sale, or to dispose of unsound material which was sound at that time, unless reasonable diligence on his part would have prevented the loss. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (22 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] If the applicant agrees to the conditions as explained to him, a formal application is prepared according to the instructions given above for each class of sales. The quantity and location of timber described is based upon the forest officer's examination, and must agree with the map, estimate, and description. All conditions and restrictions to govern the cutting must also be included. APPLICATION FOR SALE OF TIMBER. Sale No. _____, _____ Forest Reserve. _____ hereby apply to purchase _____ located _____. _____ have forwarded to the Special Fiscal Agent at Washington, D. C., $_____, to be applied _____ and agree to pay, if this application is approved, _____. (p. 46) _____ further agree, should the sale be awarded _____, to cut and remove said timber in strict accordance with the following (and all other) regulations governing timber sales, now or hereafter prescribed by the Department of Agriculture: 1. No timber will be removed until it has been measured by forest officer. 2. No timber will be removed until it has been paid for. 3. Timber will be cut only on the area designated by the forest officer. 4. Double the contract price will be paid for any merchantable timber cut and left in the woods. 5. All merchantable timber used in buildings, skidways, bridges, road building, or other improvements, will be paid for at the contract price. 6. No unnecessary damage will be done to young growth, or to trees left standing. _____ further agree to comply with the following special conditions: 1. No living trees less than _____ inches in diameter at a point _____ feet from the ground will be cut. 2. Stumps will not be cut higher than _____ inches. 3. All trees cut will be used to a diameter of _____ inches in the tops. 4. Tops will be lopped and piled compactly at a safe distance from living trees _____. 5. All dead timber will be cut which is sound enough for _____. 6. Unless extension of time is granted, all timber will be cut and removed within _____ year-- from date of approval of sale. 7. _____. 8. _____. 9. _____. _____ further agree to furnish, if required, a satisfactory bond for faithful compliance with all of the above requirements. _____ _____. Approved, and sale granted under the above conditions. _____ _____. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (23 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] Date _____ _____. (p. 47) MARKING AND CUTTING. When the sale of any green timber is assured, the supervisor will order the marking of all trees to be cut. This is imperative. Where only dead timber is purchased, and there is no danger that living timber will be cut, the forest officer may, instead of marking every tree, blaze and mark the boundary of the cutting area and instruct the purchaser in the manner of cutting. Standing timber must be marked with "U. S." marking hammer near the ground, so that every stump will show the mark. Where snow may conceal the marking from the cutters, each tree must also be marked at a point several feet from the ground. The officer in charge must see that the cutting is confined to the least possible area, and not scattered here and there over the entire tract. So far as practicable, all branches of the logging operations must keep pace with each other. Brush piling must never be allowed to fall behind the cutting and removal of logs, ties, and other material. The ground must be cleared as fast as the work proceeds. The best way to pile brush and refuse is not always the same, but the object is always to insure easy and clean burning as soon as possible, with the least injury to standing timber and seedlings. The piles should be compact and large enough to kindle easily and burn clean without repiling. When possible, they should not be nearer than 15 feet from standing green trees or dead trees having many branches or a covering of moss which might be ignited. Where the density of the standing timber makes this impracticable, openings should be made by the cutting or, if this cannot be done, the piling should be near the least valuable trees and where there is least danger of the fire spreading. SCALING All timber must be scaled by a forest officer before it is removed from the tract of from the points where it is agreed that scaling shall be done. Each stick of saw logs, timbers, poles, and lagging must be scaled separately. Rough averaging of diameters or lengths is not allowed. The Scribner rules will be used in all cases. (p. 48) Ties may be actually scaled, or reckoned as follows: Eight-foot ties, standard face, 33 1/3 feet B.M., each; 6-foot ties, standard face, 25 feet B.M., each. Shake and shingle-bolt material is measured by the cord. Squared timbers are scaled by their actual contents in board feet with no allowance for saw kerf. Thus, an 8 by 12 inch 16-foot stick contains 128 B.M. Unsound or crooked logs will be scaled down to represent the actual contents of merchantable material. All partially unsound but merchantable stuff must be scaled, whether removed or not. In ground-rotten timber, butts which, though unsound at the heart, contain good lumber toward the outside, are frequently left in the woods. Where such material will pay for sawing, the forest officer will scale it at what he considers its true value and include it in the amount purchased. Logs which are not round will be scaled on the average diameter; flats and lagging on the widest diameter. In the absence of a log rule, or where the position of logs in the pile makes its use difficult, the diameters and lengths may be tallied and the contents figured from a scale table later. When possible, the purchaser will be required to mark top ends of logs to avoid question when they are scaled to the pile. The forest officer should insist on having one end of piles or skidways even, so that the ends of logs may be easily reached. When the lengths of piled logs are hard to get, two men should work together. When scaled, each stick of saw logs, timbers, ties, lagging, posts, poles, or piles must be stamped with the United States 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (24 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] mark on at least one end, and on both when possible. Cord material, such as wood or bolts, must be stamped at both top and bottom of piles and at least 12 pieces in each cord must be stamped. All scaling is inside of bark. (p. 49) REPORTS OF TIMBER CUT Every forest officer who lays off a cutting area and marks or otherwise designates timber to be cut will notify the supervisor when he has done so and report the date when cutting actually begins. On the first and fifteenth day of every month while cutting is in progress he will report to the supervisor, upon the form provided, the amount of timber cut and the condition of the tract. These reports may be omitted when the work stops for some time, as in winter. They will be filed in the office of the supervisor. When the amount cut, as shown by them, reaches that covered by the first payment, whether a partial payment or in full, the supervisor will so notify the Forester upon the form provided. This statement will be independent of any possible further payment, even though a second deposit may be made before the timber covered by the first is cut. Every sale contract provided for a system of separate advance payments, either one or more. The Washington office wishes to know when the purchaser has received the amount of timber covered by each. When it is notified to this effect, and not before, the payment, which so far has been held as unofficial money, is covered into the Treasury. By this system the whole payment, if there is but one, and the one under which cutting is actually progressing, if there are more than one, is retained as unofficial money until the sale is complete, so that the purchaser may be reimbursed if he fails to secure the amount of timber paid for. (p. 49) SPECIAL OCCUPANCY PRIVILEGES. REG. 42. Hotels, stores, mills, summer residences, and similar establishments will be allowed upon reserve lands wherever the demand is legitimate and consistent with the best interests of the reserve. The use of tracts of not to exceed 2 acres for schools and 1 acre for churches is specifically provided for by law, subject to regulation by the Department and any other disposition of the land by the Government. Timber for the construction of church and school buildings may be secured under the free use and sales regulations. (See Appendix, p. 103.) (p. 50) REG. 43. Application for special occupancy privilege must be made to the supervisor, who will transmit it, with report and recommendation, to the Forester. The Forester may approve the application, with such restrictions as to area, time, terms, and surely as he may deem best, and may extend or renew any permit in his discretion. REG. 44. Any occupancy permit may be conditional, in the discretion of the Forester, upon the agreement of the applicant to pay a rental, not to exceed a stipulated amount, when called upon to do so. REG. 45. Occupancy under permit secures no right or claim against the United States, either to the land or to compensation for any improvements upon it, beyond the privileges conferred by the permit. REG. 46. Occupancy without a permit, or continued after violation of the terms of the permit, or 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (25 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] after its expiration, constitutes trespass. REG. 47. Permits to inclose and cultivate agricultural land within forest reserves may be granted by the Forester subject to the foregoing conditions, except that no single applicant will be permitted thus to occupy more than forty acres and that any permit may be revoked at any time. Application for a special occupancy permit should be made about as follows: I (or we), the undersigned, hereby apply for permission to occupy for a term of ---- years a tract of ---- acres situated (describe location), for the purpose of (state purpose), and to construct thereon (describe buildings and improvements necessary). The tract desired is (open, burned, timbered. If the latter, describe growth). There will be required to build improvements (approximate quantity, board measure) of (kind of timber; dead or living), to be taken from (if not from the tract, state from where). (p. 51) This privilege is desired because (state any pertinent facts). If this application is approved, I (or we) will execute an agreement to observe the regulations governing forest reserves and such special conditions as are required. (Signed) _____ _____ _______ (Post-office address.) Investigation will be made by a forest officer, who will fully explain to the applicant the regulations governing special occupancy privileges and make a written report covering the following points (nos. 6, 7, 8, and 10 may be omitted in case of school and church applications): 1. Size and location of tract involved, describing fully by reference to known points if unsurveyed and by legal subdivision if surveyed. 2. Title of land. If under claim, how and by whom? Can permit properly be given by the United States? 3. Character of land; whether suitable for the purpose desired. If timbered, describe the stand and name the species. 4. Existing improvements, if any. By whom made and may applicant properly use them? 5. If any reserve timber will be required for improvements should it be allowed free or by sale? (If free use permit or sale is necessary, examining officer should see that proper application is made and should transmit it with this report.) 6. State whether the desired privilege will involve monopoly of a location specially desirable for any purpose, or otherwise enable the applicant to hinder others in the use and enjoyment of the reserve. 7. If the Department should allow occupancy under lease only, what annual rental should be charged? 8. What is the applicant's reputation and financial standing? (p. 52) 9. Recommendations of the examining officer, with any other information required. 10. If approval is recommended, whether bond should be required and in what sum. 11. If the application is for a sawmill the report must cover these additional special considerations: 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (26 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] a. Kind and size of mill. Capacity and output. b. Kind of products to be manufactured. c. Source of timber to be sawed. d. Disposal of refuse. This report will be submitted to the supervisor, who will see that it is complete and will then forward it, with the application and his own recommendations, to the Forester for action. If the Forester approves the application, an agreement will be prepared in triplicate in the Washington office and forwarded for execution , one copy to be retained by the applicant, one by the supervisor, and one to be returned to the Forester. If bond is required it will accompany the agreement for execution. (p. 52) ROADS AND TRAILS. REG. 48. Wagon roads and trails may be constructed, changed, widened, extended, or repaired upon forest reserve lands when needed, but permit or right of way must first be secured. Permits will not give the right to exclusive use, or to charge toll, or against future disposal of the land by the United States. Applications must be made directly to the supervisor or through a ranger; never to the Washington office. Investigation will be made and all points will be fully discussed with the applicant, who should accompany the forest officer over the ground if required. An application upon the form prescribed, based upon the investigation and describing both the privilege sought and the conditions of its allowance, will then be filled out in duplicate by the forest officer and signed by the applicant. If a ranger is the examining officer, he will indorse both copies and forward them to the supervisor for action, together with a written report. (p. 53) REG. 49. Road districts, counties, or persons and noncommercial corporations which are entitled to the free use privilege may, in the discretion of the supervisor, be granted, with a permit for road or trail construction, the right to use not over $100 worth of timber free in such construction without prejudice to any application they may make in the same year for material for other purposes. If not more than $100 worth is necessary, but the applicant is not entitled to the free use privilege, he must buy the timber required under the regulations governing timber sales. REG. 50. All applications for road or trail construction involving the use of more than $100 worth of reserve timber must be submitted to the Forester for approval, with report and recommendations. He will also decide whether the timber may be used free or must be purchased. If not more than $100 worth of timber is to be used free, the supervisor's approval of the application makes it a permit, one copy of which is returned to the applicant and one kept in the supervisor's office. If not more than $100 worth of timber is to be sold for construction of the road, the sale is conducted by the supervisor, as usual. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (27 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] If more than $100 worth of timber is to be used, the supervisor will transmit both copies of the signed application to the Forester, accompanied by a report and his own recommendations. If the application is approved by the Forester, one copy signed by the applicant is retained in the Washington office, the other, which becomes a permit by the approval of the Forester, is returned to the applicant, and a third copy is made and sent to the supervisor. If the timber must be secured through purchase, a regular application must be sent to the Forester, together with the road application. If a supervisor or the Forester receives a formal signed application which must be modified before being approved, he will prepare and approve revised copies and return them for signature by the applicant. (p. 54) REG. 51. A county road established prior to the creation of the reserve may be changed, widened, or repaired by the county authorities without permit if the operations are within the right of way fixed for such roads by the State law. Any attempt to abuse this privilege, such as the unnecessary use of material or the leaving of dangerous refuse, should be forbidden, and if necessary, reported to the Forester for instructions. REG. 52. The use of material from outside the right of way, or the construction of new road, by a county, require a permit exactly as in the case of private individuals. In emergencies, however, supervisors or road districts, or others, may make any necessary immediate repairs without permit, making informal report to the nearest forest officer at their earliest opportunity. REG. 53. Roads for the benefit of mining claims, when outside their boundaries, are not considered as assessment work by the Department of the Interior, and can be built over reserve lands only under permit. Action or report upon an application for road or trail permits should take account of: 1. Location and length, to be shown by map. In important cases accurate survey and map must be furnished by applicant. 2. Title of land to be traversed. Show on map any patents or claims. 3. Character of forest reserve land involved; timbered, burned, or open. 4. Width of road and width which should be allowed to be cleared. Quantity, kind, and value of forest reserve timber to be cut in clearing. 5. Quantity, kind, and value of forest reserve timber, other than that necessarily cut in clearing, to be used in construction. 6. Should this timber be allowed free or be sold? (If sale application is necessary, it should accompany report to avoid delay.) 7. Necessity for the road or trail. (p. 55) 8. Possible injury to reserve or private interests. 9. Possible complications on account of private lands or prior rights of way. 10. Desirability of fixing a standard of excellence for the proposed road or trail. 11. Disposition of refuse. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (28 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] APPLICATION FOR RIGHT OF WAY PRIVILEGE. No. _____, _____ Forest Reserve. _____, the undersigned, hereby apply for permission to use a right of way for a _____ (road, ditch, or other right of way, stating width and length. Reservoir or tank site, stating area), located as shown on the attached map and described as follows: _____ (Describe the terminal points, direction and lands traversed, if right of way; the tract to be occupied, if dam, tan, or reservoir site), and to construct and maintain thereon a _____ (describe proposed improvement) for the purpose of _____ (object to be served or demand to be supplied. Show clearly whether enterprise is personal or commercial). _____ hereby certify that _____ have secured permission from all owners or claimants of any private lands or claims to be occupied in connection with the privilege sought, and that, to the best of _____ knowledge and belief, the privilege will not in any way involve interference with any legal or just right of other persons. _____ agree, should this application be approved, to comply with all regulations and instructions of the Department of Agriculture governing forest reserves, and with the following special conditions: 1. The forest reserve timber used in clearing for and establishing the _____will be taken _____ (from right of way or elsewhere. State whether through purchase.) 2. Only timber will be cut, except under permit, and no unnecessary damage will be done to young growth and trees left standing. 3. All cutting and disposition of refuse will be done by _____ under the direction of the forest officers. 4. _____ will pay the United States for any damage sustained by reason of _____ use and occupation of the forest reserve, regardless of the cause and circumstances under which such damage may occur. (p. 56) 5. _____ (Any further conditions required in the case). 6. _____. _____ further agree, if required, to give satisfactory bond for faithful compliance with all of the above requirements. (Signed) _____ _____, (Post-office address) Dated at _____, _____, 190_. Approved and permit granted for a period of _____. _____ _____. _____, 190_. (p. 56) CANALS, DITCHES, RESERVOIRS, ETC. REG. 54. Permits for canals, ditches, flumes, pipe lines, tunnels, dams, tanks, and reservoirs, not for 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (29 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] mining or municipal purposes, nor granting an easement, are under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture and should be applied for to the supervisor, as in the case of roads and trails. REG. 55. If the project is small and of a private and personal character--such as a reservoir, pipe line, or ditch to supply a few farms, or a tank to collect water for stock--and the supervisor is certain that there are no complications of title, nor prior and conflicting rights, he may approve application. If any large or commercial enterprise is involved, or if there is any question of conflicting rights or of the jurisdiction of the United States over the land, or of conflict with Federal, State, or Territorial laws controlling use and appropriation of water, the supervisor must transmit the application to the Forester for approval, together with report and recommendation. (p. 57) Permits granted under these regulations are only for the improvements necessary to store or conduct water and do not carry any right to the water itself, the appropriation of which is subject to Federal, State, or Territorial law. Action upon applications to construct or change reservoirs, dams, tanks, canals, ditches, flumes, pipe lines, and similar improvements for purposes other than mining and municipal, is practically the same as prescribed for roads and trails. Preliminary statement by the applicant will be followed by examination and report upon all of the following points: 1. If the application is for a reservoir, dam, etc., the location and area; if for a ditch, flume, etc., the length and direction. This must be shown by map. In important cases, accurate map and survey must be furnished by applicant. 2. Title of land to be occupied or traversed. Show by map any patents or claims. 3. Character of forest reserve land involved; whether timbered, burned, or open. 4. Width of ditch, canal, etc., and width which should be allowed to be cleared. Quantity, kind, and value of forest-reserve timber to be cut in clearing. 5. Quantity, kind, and value of forest reserve timber, other than that necessarily cut in clearing, to be used in construction.. 6. Should this timber be allowed free or through sale? (If free use or sale application is necessary, it should accompany report to avoid delay. 7. Disposition of refuse from cutting. 8. Source of water supply. 9. Applicant's right to use this water. This point should be fully discussed in the report, because, while a permit for improvements carries no water right, it is undesirable to grant a useless privilege or one which may unjustly impose upon others the necessity of protecting their rights. If the applicant has not an established water right, it should be clearly stated whether the stream involved is adequate at all seasons to supply all existing rightful claimants; whether only flood waters, which would otherwise be wasted, are to be used; whether in any way the desired privilege will be illegal or undesirable. (p. 58) 10. Necessity for the desired improvement. 11. Possible injury to reserve or private interests; as, for example, through damage to roads or trails, hindering the passage of stock, or discharging water where it will be a nuisance. 12. Possible complications on account of private lands or prior rights of way. These points should be fully discussed with the applicant and others concerned. An application upon the form prescribed , 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (30 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] based upon the investigation and describing the terms of the privilege, will then be filled out in duplicate and signed by the applicant, as in road and trail cases, and the procedure thereafter will be as prescribed in such cases, except in so far as the authority of the supervisor to approve the application is defined by Reg. 55. PRIVATE RAILROADS, TELEPHONE LINES, ETC. REG. 56. Permits for private railroads and tramroads and telegraph, telephone, and power lines may be granted only by the Forester. Applications may be made to the supervisor in the manner prescribed for road and trail applications. An accurate map of the proposed line must be supplied by the applicant. After investigation a formal application upon the right of way privilege blank, together with report similar to that required for road or trail applications, will be transmitted to the Forester by the supervisor. TRESPASS AND VIOLATIONS. I. -- CRIMINAL ACTION. REG. 57. Under authority given to the Secretary of Agriculture regarding forest reserves "to regulate their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction," the following acts are hereby forbidden, and declared to constitute trespass punishable by fine and imprisonment: (See Appendix, p. 101.) (p. 59) (a) Grazing upon or driving across a forest reserve any live stock without a permit, except as otherwise allowed by regulation. (b) Placing any fence or inclosure upon a forest reserve without a permit, except upon land covered by a title or a valid claim. (c) Making settlement or squatting upon land within a forest reserve. (d) Building roads, trails, railways, or tramways, and constructing ditches, dams, canals, pipe lines, flumes, tunnels, or reservoirs without a permit, except upon land covered by a title or a valid claim. (e) Erecting or conducting telephone, telegraph, or power lines, hotels, stores, sawmills, power plants, or other structures, or manufacturing or business enterprises, or carrying on any kind of work, except according to law and forest reserve regulations, unless performed on patented land or land held under valid claim. (f) Willfully tearing down or defacing warning notices of the Forest Service. (g) Willfully destroying or damaging any property belonging to or used by the United States for forest reserve purposes. (h) Willfully setting on fire or causing to be set on fire any timber, brush, or grass within a forest reserve, or leaving or suffering fire to burn unattended near any timber or other inflammable material in a forest reserve. (p. 60) 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (31 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] The following trespasses are forbidden by specific acts of Congress and are punishable by fine and imprisonment: 1. Cutting, destroying, or removing timber or other forest products from land in a forest reserve without a permit, or without having a valid claim to the ground on which such timber or product grows, except the small quantities actually needed by transients while within forest reserves. (See Appendix, p. 117.) 2. Cutting, destroying, or removing more timber upon an unpatented claim within a forest reserve than is necessary for its proper working and actual development. 3. Cutting timber on one mining claim to be used in developing another, except when both belong to the same group and were located in good faith. (See Appendix, p. 129.) All forest officers have power to arrest without warrant any person whom they discover in the act of violating the forest reserve laws and regulations, or to swear out a warrant before a United States commissioner of the district in which such violation has been committed and use it as the visible sign of the right to arrest: and also to arrest for any such violation on a warrant obtained from a United States commissioner by any competent person. All forest officers are directed to be vigilant in discovering violations of forest reserve laws and regulations and diligent in arresting offenders, either on a warrant secured from a United States commissioner of the district or without such warrant when the offender is taken in the act of violating any forest reserve law or regulation. (p. 61) Any forest officer making an arrest must as soon as practicable take the offender before the nearest United States commissioner and thereafter stand ready to carry out any mandate of the commissioner relative to the custody of the prisoner. He will also at once inform the supervisor within whose jurisdiction the offense was committed. It shall be the duty of each supervisor promptly to inform the district attorney of any such arrest and to render him the fullest assistance in collecting evidence. Each supervisor will also keep the Forester fully informed of each arrest and of further steps in the prosecution. When a forest officer makes an arrest he will be reimbursed for the necessary expense incident to such arrest. When such expenses are incurred by a forest ranger her will be reimbursed through the supervisor. II. -- CIVIL ACTION. IN GENERAL. The United States has all the civil rights and remedies for trespass possessed by private individuals. If any forest officer discovers a trespass he will notify the trespasser, if possible, in the presence of a witness, to discontinue the same, taking care to note the hour, day, and place of notice. He will also report the facts immediately to the supervisor on the prescribed form, and when danger of removal or destruction is imminent will seize all material involved in the trespass and, if necessary, arrest the offender. Supervisors will report all cases of trespass to the Forester, setting forth the damage done or threatened, including the actual expense incurred in investigating the trespass. If the offer of settlement is not accepted, and the damage seems sufficient to warrant a civil suit, the supervisor will be directed by the Forester to place the case in the hands of the United States district attorney. Thereafter the supervisor will do all in his power to collect evidence for and assist the district attorney in the prosecution of the suit. He will also promptly inform the Forester of each step in the case. Forest officers may administer oaths in securing testimony under this regulation. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (32 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] (p. 62) INJUNCTION. An injunction may be obtained to restrain trespass on forest reserves. DAMAGES. Civil actions may also be brought to recover damages caused by any trespass or breach of contract. Damages recovered in such actions are in addition to and exclusive of criminal penalties. COMPROMISE. The Secretary of Agriculture has no power to compromise criminal cases, and "a proposition of settlement submitted with the understanding that, if accepted, criminal proceedings for the trespass will be waived will be rejected." SETTLEMENT. The Secretary of Agriculture has power to settle with any trespasser for the actual civil damages of such trespass. The rule for measure of damages for timber cut without permit is as follows: When the trespass is willful, the value of the timber where found; when unintentional, the stumpage value only. Forest officers will notify trespassers that they may make, upon the prescribed form, offers of settlement to accompany their reports, but no such offer will be considered unless the amount offered in settlements is remitted by postal or express money order or national bank draft on New York to the Special Fiscal Agent, Forest Service, Washington, D. C. (p. 63) PUNITIVE DAMAGES. When trespass can be shown to be of a malicious nature, or due to such negligence as implies malice "or a reckless indifference to the rights of the Government," especially when a person trespasses after his attention has been called to the nature of the trespass, punitive damages may be recovered "notwithstanding the act constitutes an offense punishable under the criminal statutes." STRUCTURES WRONGFULLY PLACED ON FOREST RESERVES. When any structure is erected upon forest reserve land without a permit, it becomes the property of the United States immediately upon its construction. (p. 63) PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE. Probably the greatest single benefit derived by the community and the nation from forest reserves is insurance against the destruction of property, timber resources, and water supply by fire. The direct annual loss from this source on unprotected lands reaches many millions of dollars; the indirect loss is beyond all estimate. The burden of adequate protection can not well be borne by the State or by its citizens, much as they have to gain, for it requires great outlay of money to support a trained and equipped force, as well as to provide a fund to meet emergencies. Only the Government can do it, and, since the law does not provide effective protection for the public domain only in forest reserves can the 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (33 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] Government give the help so urgently needed. (p. 64) Through its watchful fire patrol the Forest Service guards the property of the resident settler and miner, and preserves the timber and water supply upon which the prosperity of all industries depends. The help it can give to the development of the West may be greatly increased by the cooperation of citizens. Destructive forest fires are not often set willfully, but far too commonly they result from failure to realize that carelessness will be followed by injury and distress to others. The resident or the traveler in forest regions who takes every precaution not to let fire escape, and who is active in extinguishing fires which he discovers, contributes directly to the development and wealth of the country and to the personal safety and profit of himself and his neighbors. He who does not, assumes a great responsibility by endangering not only his own welfare but that of countless others. Citizens' fire brigades have been organized successfully on many reserves. Not only is the prevention of fire to the interest of all property owners, but men under obligation to fight fire because they hold permits will profit greatly by any means of reducing the work which they may be called upon to do. An organization which will put out a fire before it gathers headway may save them many days' hard work. A good leader should be chosen to direct the work and to communicate with the forest officers. The local ranger should keep this leader informed of his movements as far as practicable, so that no time need be lost. Care with small fires is the best preventive of large ones. The following simple regulations may easily be observed by all: (p. 65) REG. 58. Camp fires must not be larger than necessary. REG. 59. Fires must not be built in leaves, rotten wood, or other places where they are likely to spread. REG. 60. Fires must not be built against large or hollow logs, where it is difficult to be sure when they are completely out. REG. 61. In windy weather and in dangerous places, camp fires must be confined in holes, or by clearing all vegetable matter from the ground around them. REG. 62. A fire must never by left, even for a short absence, before it is completely extinguished. Officers of the Forest Service, especially forest rangers, have no duty more important than protecting the reserves from forest fires. During dry and dangerous periods all other work should be subordinate. Most careful attention should be given to the prevention of fires. Methods and equipment for fighting them should be brought to the highest efficiency. No opportunity should be lost to impress the fact that care with small fires is the best way to prevent large ones. The reserves must be thoroughly posted with fire warnings. The fact that some of them are destroyed is no excuse for neglecting this important duty. Often the warning notices can be posted on or near signboards along trails, or notices of reserve boundaries, limits of districts, or excluded parts in grazing ranges, etc. The destruction of these notices is willful trespass, punishable by law. Forest officers should cheerfully and politely tell hunters, campers, and others about the rules and regulations governing camp fires. An officer who loses his temper or uses improper language in talking with persons who are careless because 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (34 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] they do not know about the rules, or have no experience in camping, fails in one of his principal duties. He should call their attention to the mistake and instruct them courteously in the proper way of building and handling fires. (p. 66) REG. 63. Lumbermen and settlers within forest reserves are cautioned against making dangerous slashings, and must not fire them in very dry weather. If it is necessary to make slashings, or to burn them, ample notice must always be given the nearest forest officer before burning, so that he may take steps to reduce the danger to the minimum. If notice is not given, or if the ranger's instructions are not followed, the person responsible for the burning will be held strictly responsible for all damage to the reserve, and liable, in aggravated cases, to criminal prosecution. There is no desire to hamper the work of settlers and lumbermen, nor to limit the rights of property holders, but it is not just that other forests and improvements, whether owned privately or by the Government, should be endangered by carelessness. The utmost tact and vigilance should be exercised where settlers are accustomed to use fire in clearing land. Public sentiment is rightly in sympathy with home builders and the control of their operations should give the least possible cause for resentment and impatience with the reserve administration, but it should be exercised firmly none the less. Settlers should be shown the injury to their own interests, as well as to the public, which results from forest fires. Methods and times of burning should be discussed with them and, if possible, an amicable agreement secured to have no burning except when authorized by the forest officer and when he is present. But while the aim ought always to be toward cooperation and good will, it is equally important to have it well understood that reserve interests will be protected by every legal means. Where any tendency to ignore instructions is observed, notice must be given that action will be brought for any damage sustained by the United States and that willful negligence will be prosecuted criminally. If this is ignored and damage does result prosecution must be prompt and vigorous. Where there is sufficient reason to anticipate danger, as from a large slashing which it is announced will be burned at a dangerous time, injunction may be secured. (p. 67) Similar means should be employed when reserves are endangered by railroads or logging operations on private lands, and prompt report of such conditions should be made to the Forester. FIRE LAWS AND PENALTIES. There is ample legal provision for the punishment of malice or carelessness with fires. The act of June 4, 1897, instructs the Secretary in charge of forest reserves to make provisions for their protection against fire, and provides for the punishment of any violation of his regulations. The act of May 5, 1900, prescribes a maximum fine of $1,000, or one year's imprisonment, or both, for building a fire and leaving it before it is totally extinguished. Any officer of the Forest Service may arrest violators of these laws. The fire laws of any State or Territory are applicable to forest reserves within its boundaries and the United States has recourse to them whenever necessary. The United States may also bring civil action to recover damages caused by fire, no matter how it was set. It is not necessary to prove malice, or even carelessness, or that the fire was set upon Government land. Any person responsible in any way for injury to Government property is liable for the actual damage. PATROL. Each supervisor is responsible for the patrol of his reserve, and will devise systems best suited to the locality. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (35 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] (p. 68) Every ranger or guard must go to and fight every fire he sees or hears of at once, unless he clearly can not reach it, or is already fighting another fire. If he can not reach it, or is already fighting another fire. If he can not put it out alone, he must get help. The fact that it may not be on his district has no bearing unless he is certain another ranger is there already. Rangers on fire-patrol duty should avoid spending time and work in places or along routes where there is little danger or small outlook. Hours spent or miles ridden are in themselves small indications of efficient patrol. Often a short trip to a commanding point is better than a long ride through a wooded valley. During dry and dangerous periods the selection of headquarters, camping places, and routes should be made with the single object of preventing and discovering fires. Fires caused by lightning are not rare, especially in dry mountain regions. After every electric storm a special effort is needed to locate and extinguish any such fires before they are well under way. HOW TO FIGHT FIRE. When once a fire has spread over an acre or more, especially where much dead and down material makes it very hot, it may be so far beyond the control of one man that it is best to leave it and get help. The character and condition of the woods, the weather, and even the time of day, have so much to do with such cases that general directions have little value and all depends upon the experience and good judgment of the ranger. Generally, it may be said that the best tools for fighting fire are the shovel, mattock, and ax. The ranger should always carry at least shovel and ax during all the dangerous season. In damp, heavy timber usually travels slowly, and a few men, if persistent, can keep it in check by trenching, even though they may not extinguish it, and must continue the watch until rain falls. (p. 69) In dry, open woods fire travels faster, and it is often best to go some distance to the most open and clean ground, and back fire from there. In handling back fires great care is needed to avoid useless burning; therefore, they should never be set except by forest officers, unless in great emergencies. The night or the early morning hours are the best time to work, whenever any choice of time exists, for nearly all forest fires die down more or less during the cool of the night and flare up again during the heat of the day. Following are several general principles to be borne in mind: (a) Protect the valuable timber rather than the brush or waste. (b) Never leave a fire, unless driven away, until it is put out. (c) Young saplings suffer more than old mature timber. (d) A surface fire in open woods, though not dangerous to old timber, does great harm by killing seedlings. (e) A fire rushes up hill, crosses a crest slowly, and is more or less checked in traveling down. Therefore, if possible, use the crest of the ridge and the bottom as lines of attack. (f) A good trail, a road, a stream, an open park, check the fire. Use them whenever possible. (g) Dry sand or earth thrown on a fire is usually as effective as water and easier to get. (h) A little thinking often saves labor and makes work successful. Ill-planned efforts suggested by haste and excitement rarely lead to success. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (36 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] (p. 70) ACTION AND REPORT. Small fires, extinguished without difficulty by the officer who discovers them, may be reported at the end of the month. The supervisor should be notified at once of large ones which require help from residents or other rangers, purchase of supplies, or attendance for several days. But if help is needed, the forest officer on the ground should get it at once. He should hire men and messengers, if necessary, send for supplies, and notify the supervisor of the action taken. The supervisor will furnish any further help needed and telegraph the Forester if special authorization is required. In reporting upon fires, three classes should be distinguished, as follows: (a) Camp fires and other small fires covering not more than a few square rods. (b) Small forest fires, extinguished without any extra help or expense and generally not covering over 5 acres. (c) Large fires, requiring extra help and expense. Those of the first two classes may be included in one report at the end of the month. Give the number and location of each, with such information as to course and damage as seems necessary or is required by general instructions from the supervisor. Fires of the last class should be reported on separately. Cover all of the following points: 1. Location. 2. Damage done. (a) Number of acres burned over. (b) Number of acres of merchantable timber burned. (c) Number of feet B. M. of: (1) Green timber destroyed. (2) Dry timber destroyed. (d) Value of all timber destroyed. 3. Probable cause. 4. By whom was fire discovered? 5. When was it discovered? 6. When was it brought to notice of forest officer? 7. When was the work of checking the fire begun? 8. When was the work finished? (p. 71) 9. How many extra men were employed? 10. Cost of fire: (a) For help (outside of rangers) 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (37 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] (b) For materials, tools, etc. (c) Total cost. EXPENDITURES FOR FIGHTING FIRE. Every forest supervisor is authorized, in person or through a subordinate, to hire temporary men, purchase material and supplies, and pay for their transportation from place to place to extinguish a fire; but when it is evident that the expense is liable to be over $300, he must at once telegraph the Forester for instructions to incur the additional expense. No expense for fighting a fire outside a reserve must be incurred unless the fire threatens it. Any person paid for services at a fire must sign a subvoucher for the amount received, to be transmitted with the supervisor's regular monthly account for the month in which the expense is incurred. Full directions for preparing accounts are printed on the back of all vouchers. Government employees and person having grazing or other permits within a forest reserve are not entitled to compensation for fighting fire. While the government is anxious to prevent and fight fires, only a limited amount of money can be devoted to this purpose. Experience has proved that usually a reasonable effort only is justified, and that a fire which can not be controlled by 20 to 40 men will run away from 100 or even more men, since heat and smoke in such cases make a direct fight impossible. Extravagant expenditures will not be tolerated. Fires are sometimes started for the sake of a job. In and about every reserve it is possible to enlist the cooperation of the better citizens, so that in time of need enough men of the right kind will be on hand. A crowd of men hastily gathered about a town without organization, interest, or experience, is valuable only as a last resort in extreme need. (p. 72) PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS. The forest officers will devote all time that can be spared from other work to building and keeping open roads and trails, to making other permanent improvements, and to study and mapping of the forest. Supervisors will use every opportunity to work on a permanent system of roads and trails in their reserves. Whenever they can be spared and weather permits, rangers should be assigned to trail and cabin work. No work of importance should be done without careful previous location, approved by the supervisor, who is responsible not only for the work, but for economy in doing it. Cabins and fenced pastures should be established wherever they are needed. Reasonable construction expenses will be allowed; but supervisors will be held strictly responsible for the selection of locations with the single object of improving the service. Abandoned settlers' improvements may often be used. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (38 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] Progress reports upon all improvement work will be required by the supervisor, who will also from time to time inform the Forester of results. Before any expense beyond the labor of the reserve force is incurred, unless to meet an emergency, previous authority must be secured from the Forester. the need and cost of the proposed improvement and its exact location must always be stated. MARKING RESERVE BOUNDARIES. For the benefit of the public and of the reserves, forest officers will do their utmost to see that all boundaries are established and clearly marked. All forest supervisors will be supplied with boundary posters, with stamps and ink for filling the spaces left on each poster for the name of the reserve and boundary on which the notice is posted. They will see that the reserve limits are kept amply marked, not only at the entrance of trails and roads, but at frequent intervals along the entire boundary where any entrance is probable. There should be at least one notice to each mile where grazing or timber trespass is likely to occur. (p. 73) Every notice posted must bear the name of the reserve and the proper boundary. If it is desirable to indicate the latter otherwise than by "North," "South," "East," or "West," combinations of initials such as "NW." or "SE." may be made. Where the forest officers cannot locate the boundaries of their reserve with sufficient accuracy, or the lines of interior claims or holdings of any kind, the Forester should be informed, in order that proper surveys may be secured. SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UPON FOREST RESERVES. It is the policy of the Forest Service to conduct within forest reserves useful work and investigations outside the ordinary work of the reserve, such as the examination of lands proposed to be excluded from or taken into a reserve, the study of commercial trees, the preparation of maps and working plans for conservative lumbering, and the establishment of nurseries and planting of trees. Such work will usually be done by or under the supervision of forest inspectors, but the local force will assist and cooperate with them as far as possible without interference with their regular duties. FIELD AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT. When they are needed for the good of the service, every supervisor will be furnished with the following articles for use by himself and distribution among his subordinates. List A. For supervisor's office: Desk. Chairs. Filing case. Map case. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (39 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] Typewriter and stand. Drawing instruments. Compasses and tripods. Surveyor's chains and pins. (p. 74) Calipers. Tally boards. Magnifying glasses. Stationery and office supplies. Steel tape (50-foot). Planimeter. Scribes. Bark blazer. United States flag. For rangers and guards: Marking hatchets. Log rules. Tents (7 by 9). Pocket compasses. Badges. Stationery. List B. For supervisors office: Ink and mucilage. Drafting board and trestle. Drawing paper and linen. For general reserve work: Axes, shovels, saws, hammers, drills, and other necessary tools. Lumber, glass, nails, bolts, powder, and other necessary construction materials. Articles in list A will be shipped by the Washington office upon receipt and approval of requisition in proper form. Those is List B may be purchased by the supervisor from local dealers upon permission from the Forester the form of definite instruction and authorization. There must be no requisitions or purchase of unnecessary supplies, and purchases must be at the lowest available price. Any equipment not mentioned in the above lists and which is necessary in the proper performance of their duty must be furnished by forest officers at their own expense. (p. 75) SUPERVISORS' ACCOUNTS. PAY VOUCHERS. 1905 Use Book file:///H|/USFSCOLL/Website - New/usfscoll/publications/1905_Use_Book/1905_Use_Book.htm (40 of 80) [1/16/2002 12:45:36 PM] All pay vouchers of forest supervisors, rangers, and guards must be prepared, signed, and certified in duplicate upon Form No. 3. Supervisors will not certify their own pay vouchers, since they are certified in the office of the Forester. They will certify their subordinates' pay vouchers when the number of days for which payment is claimed is correct. 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1905 Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper Page 1 Commencement Program. Student life is due to appear at the beginning of Commencement week. It is. therefore, impracticable to give anything more than the report of the Senior committee, which, in all probabilities, will not be changed materially. Sunday June 4, '05, 11 A. M. Hymn . .... . . . .. . ....... . Choir Invocation ... .. . ...... . .. . .... . Baccalaureate Sermon .... . . Bishop Whitney Quartette ........... . ........ . . Benediction ..... . ........... .. . Monday-CIass Day. Musical .. . . . ... . 11 a.m. to 12 m. Luncheon . .. . ... . ..... I -3 p.m. Base Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 p.m. Evening Class Day Exercises. Music .. . ...... .. . ... . ..... . . . . President's Address .. J. T. Jardine Music ......... . .. . ...... . . .. . . Class History .... Verna Bowman Oration .. . . ... Richard Ballantine
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1905 Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper Page 2 Music . ..... . ....... .. .... .. .. . Class Poem ...... Edith Rudolph Class Will .... . ... J. E . Barrack Class Song ...... . ... . . .... . . . . Pipe of Peace ..... . J. E. Taylor Tuesday, 11 A. M. Anthem ........ ... ... .... Choi r Praver ........... . ........... . Student Speeches .......... . M. C. Merrill E Ella Maughan J. T. Jardine C. W. Porter Address . .. .. .... President Kerr Quartette ..... . ..... . .... . ... . . Address to the Graduates .... . . . Ladies' Trio . ............... . . . Presentation of Certificates and Conferring of Degrees . ... President Kerr Benediction .. ....... .......... .
1906 Commencement Program Commencement Programme Utah Agricultural College June 5, 1906 Quartette … Wiegand Invocation Reinforced Concrete, Mr. Irvine Allred Science and the Housekeeper, Miss Minnie Peterson Love Song, (Pianoforte) … Liszt Mrs. N. Stoney The Value of Manual Training Mr. Aaron Newey–Short Course People who Live in Air Castles Miss Mildred Forgeon The Lass with the Delicate Air … Dr. Arne Miss Nora Eliason Address to the Graduates Hon. E. M. Allison, Jr. Cachoucha Caprice … Raff Miss Mamie Brown Address Hon. A.C. Nelson, State Supt. Public Instruction President’s Report Conferring of Degrees and Awarding of Certificates Quartette … Adams Benediction J. P. Smith. Logan, Utah
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1906 UAC Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper
1906 Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper Commencement 1906 Benedictus .. .... G. W. Thatcher Quartette. MONDAY. Field sports, probably In Logan Canyon. TUESDAY. “Lord with Glowing Heart" .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . Wiegand Quartette. Prayer. “The Man Behind the Transit," ........ ... .... . Irvin Alred "'The Lass With the Delicate Air," .......... . . (Dr. Arne) Miss Nora Eliason. "What Science has done for the Modern Housekeeper," Miss Minnie Peterson. "Cachaucha Caprice," (Raff) Miss Mamie Brown. As STUDENT LIFE, in order to be out before school closes, is forced to go to press several days before commencement, it is possible to give only a program of the commencement exercises. They line up about as follows: SUNDAY. "Consider the Lilies" (Excell) Quartette, Mrs. Nettie Sloan, Mrs. L. Linnartz, Mr. J .T. Jardine, Mr. G. W. Thatcher. Prayer, Thou'rt With Me, O, My Father! Baccalaureate Sermon, President Brimhall, Brigham Young University. "People Who Live in Air Castles," Miss Mildred Forgeon. Address to Graduates, Attorney Allison, Salt Lake City. Presentation of Degrees and Certificates, President W. J. Kerr. "Aufwiedersehen," (Bridgman) Glee Club. Tuesday, June 5, the annual Alumni Ball and Banquet will be held at the college. Prof. W. S. Langton will act as toastmaster on the occasion and the following toasts will be responded to: The Graduates ......... . .. ... Mayor E. W. Robinson College Athletics. Mr. J. T. Jardine Agricultural Education ...... .. .. Pres. W. J. Kerr The Commonwealth ........ ... . Gov. J. C. Cutler Student Life .... Capt. H. D. Styer Alumni Association ... .. . ... .. . Mr. C. W. Porter
1907 UAC Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper
1907 Commencement Program Student Life Newspaper
1908 Commencement Program Cover Agricultural College of Utah Souvenir Program Commencement 1908
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Commencement Exercise Programs, 1894-1950, SCAUSU-13p-2s-1Bx001-1908
1908 Commencement Program Page 1 Agricultural College of Utah Historical Reminiscences 1888 to 1894 The Great Seal of the State of Utah 1896 Industry 1847 A Souvenir of the Visit of Hon. Jeremiah Wilson Sanborn First President, 1890-4 Commencement 1908 The Deseret News
1908 Commencement Program Page 10 1890 Jan. 22–Prof. Sanborn, who arrived in Logan early in the month, met with the Board in Salt Lake City, and presented a list of the needs of the College for the ensuing two years. His estimate was adopted and ordered added to the report to the Legislature, which had already been approved. Jan. 24–Prof. Sanborn was asked to try to get from Government the Experiment Station appropriation of $15,000 for the year ending June 30; and also to find a chemist, horticulturist, assistant agriculturist and a clerk. Feb. 22–College building formally accepted from the contractors. March 29–The following appointments were made: W.P. Cutter of Cornell, chemist; E.S. Richman, and A.A. Mills of Kansas Agricultural College, horticulturist, and superintendent of farm and experimental work, respectively. Hon. W.S. McCornick of Salt Lake City was elected president of the Board of Trustees. The secretary was instructed to advertise for bids for erecting a farm house, a barn, an experiment laboratory and two cottages; and to apply to the War Department for the detail of an officer for military instruction in the college. April 18–Director Sanborn reported that 90 acres of the farm had been plowed, the experiments decided on, 300 experimental plats laid off, 70 for irrigation, and some of the plats sowed. In arranging for the work of the school, Prof. Sanborn recommended that there by a preparatory year, and four-year courses in Agriculture, Domestic Economy, Mechanic Arts and English. The matter of employing instructors, preparing a course of study, buying apparatus and supplies, getting up catalogues and advertising the institution was left with Prof. Sanborn. The Board decided that the salary of a full professorship shall be $2,000, but that no salary shall exceed $1,500 the first year. May 17–Contract for barn let at $5,525. The Director reported that the general work on the farm was completed, and that, thereafter, only the ordinary running expenses would be needed. Prof. J.W. Sanborn was elected president of the Faculty, and appointed professor of Agriculture. W.P. Cutter was appointed professor of chemistry, and E.S. Richman professor of horticulture. The Board decided that daily chapel exercises be held, that there should be no tuition fee, but that students pay an entrance fee of five dollars per year, or three dollars per term.
1908 Commencement Program Page 11 May 18–President McCornick was authorized to employ counsel to begin a suit to compel Logan City to convey to the College the land proffered by the city and Cache county. June 20–President McCornick reported that he had employed Judge John Marshall of Salt Lake, who had begun the suggested suit. June 21–Messrs. McCornick, Cross and Hammond were appointed the Executive Committee provided for by the By-Laws just adopted. The Board authorized the following expenditures: $1,500 for library, $2,000 for book cases, physical and other apparatus, $300 for domestic arts. Messrs. Olsen and Cross were appointed a committee to work with the Faculty in arranging a program for dedicatory services. Bid of A.H. Andrews & Co., Chicago, for a car of school furniture accepted. Sept. 3– John T. Caine, Jr., employed as teacher in preparatory department. Sept. 4–Dedicatory exercises were held in College chapel. The Chapel Dear to all A.C. students as the place of many pleasant and profitable meetings
1908 Commencement Program Page 12 Dedicatory Exercises of the Agricultural College of Utah 1890 The Agricultural College of Utah will be open for the reception of Students on Tuesday, September 2d. On September 4th, at 10 a.m., it will be dedicated to the cause of Higher Education. Industrial Education will be a prominent feature of its work. The College has organized five courses of instruction, namely: Science, Agriculture, Domestic Arts, Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering. The speakers announced below will represent the several courses of study pursued in the College: Piano Solo … Mrs. R.W. Sloan Invocation … Apostle Moses Thatcher Song … Mr. W.S. Lamoreaux Address … Hon. Arthur L. Thomas, Gov. of Utah “Education in its Relation to Agriculture” … Bishop William B. Preston Song … Mrs. R. W. Sloan Address, “The Higher Education of Women” … Mrs. S.W. Eddy “Education in its Relation to the Mechanical Industries” … George G. Bywater Song … Mr. R.C. Easton Brief Addresses by the Trustees of the College and by Citizens Duet … Mr. R.C. Easton and Mr. W.S. Lamoreaux Benediction … Rev. E.W. Greene
1908 Commencement Program Page 13 First Graduating Class, 1894. Martha Hoyt, Kamas. R.W. Erwin, Logan. W.B. Dougall, Jr., Springville. A.B. Larsen, Salt Lake City
1908 Commencement Program Page 14 Some results of experiments made at the experiment station of the Agricultural College of Utah 1. Coulters increase and trucks decrease draft of plows. 2. Draft per inch of soil moved decreases with increase of size of furrow. 3. Walking plows drew slightly easier than sulkey plows. 4. Share sharpened badly drew 36 percent harder than a new share. 5. Share straight on base & side drew slightly easier than ordinary share. 6. Load over hind wheels drew ten percent easier than over front wheels. 7. High wheels drew 23.7 percent easier over a 3 inch obstacle than low wheels. 8. Wagon reach inclined to front as now made increases draft. 9. A long hitch increases draft. 10. Axle slightly longer than box or hub decreases draft. 11. Lard proved best of five kinds of axle grease tried. 12. Draft varies 300% on different roads. 13. Square or round-toothed harrows gave the evenest bottom cultivation 14. Cut-away harrows had lightest draft per pound of earth moved and cut deepest. 15. Disc harrows leave badly corrugated bottom lines. 16. Harrows lifting soil from the rear leave it loosest. 17. Harrows lifting soil from the front next loosest. 18. Square or round-toothed harrows pack soil. 19. Plows move a pound of soil with less draft than harrows. 20. Rolling cutters draw easier than dragging cultivators having a lifting action. 21. Sleighs drew harder per pound moved than wagons. 22. A load on a sled drew easier with crooked shafts than with straight ones. 23. Position of load on sled did not affect draft. 24. Relative draft of mowing machines vary with grass. 25. Draft of mowing machines varies with point of attachment. 26. A worn mowing machine in good repair drew easier than a new one. 27. A 6 feet cut bar drew easier per foot than one 4 ½ feet. 28. Cutter bar out of line with pitman rod increases draft. 29. Cutter bar inclined upward decreases draft. 30. Guards out of true increased draft. 31. Draft was increased when sickly did not strike center of guard. 32. Potatoes planted near surface contained more starch than deep planted potatoes. 33. Yield of potatoes decreased after passing 8 inches between hills. 34. Close planting potatoes increased moisture & decreased starch about 7%. 35. The potatoes tested contained about 1/3 more starch than eastern potatoes. 36. Yield of potatoes increased with the size of seed used. 37. Loss of fodder by dry storage was less than in the silo. 38. Ensilage gave a more watery growth than dry fodder. 39. Steers fed ensilage had less fat than those fed dry fodder.
1908 Commencement Program Page 15 College Buildings in 1890, President Sanborn’s First Year. College Buildings in 1908, As they are on the occasion of President Sanborn’s visit.
1908 Commencement Program Page 2 Hon. Anthon H. Lund, The Father of the Act of Establishment Mr. Lund, a thoughtful, far-sighted man of keep observation, anticipating the needs of our future great commonwealth, and guided by the example of many of the older states, prepared the bill creating the Agricultural College of Utah, introduced it into the Legislature, and watched it carefully, until it was passed and signed by the Governor.
1908 Commencement Program Page 3 Extracts from the Act of Establishment Sec. 1. There shall be established the Agricultural College of Utah, to be located at any place in Cache county that may be designated by the trustees. Sec. 2. For the purpose of erecting suitable school building and purchasing land on which to conduct agricultural experiments, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated Sec. 3. The Governor and Secretary of the Territory, and the assessors of Cache, Davis, Utah, Salt Lake, and Sanpete counties shall be, ex-officio, trustees for the Agricultural College. Sec. 4. The trustees shall elect one of their number a president, and shall appoint a superintendent, a secretary and a treasurer. Said trustees shall take charge of the general interests of the institution, and shall have power to enact by-laws and rules for the regulation of all its concerns. Sec. 8. The leading object of the college shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts, and such other scientific and classical studies as shall promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. Sec. 12. The course of instruction shall embrace the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, the veterinary art, entomology, political, rural and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, bookkeeping, and especially the application of science and the mechanical arts to practical agriculture in the field. Sec. 13. A full course of study in the institution shall embrace not less than four years. The trustees may institute a winter course of lectures for others than students of the institutions. Sec. 18. In connection with the said college there shall be established an agricultural experiment station to conduct original researches on the physiology of the plant and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject with remedies for the same, etc., etc. Passed March 8, 1888.
1908 Commencement Program Page 4 Members of the First Board of Trustees and their Appointive Officers John T. Caine, Jr., Sec., Jesse W. Fox, Jr., Salt Lake. H.E. Hatch, Treas. J.T. Hammond, Cache. Other Members of the Board were Governor C.W. West, Secretary W.C. Hall, Assessors R.H. Egan, Davis County; A.O. Smoot, Jr., Utah County, and C.W. Peterson, of Sanpete. (Photographs of other members were not available.)
1908 Commencement Program Page 5 Hon. Jeremiah Wilson Sanborn, Of New Hampshire. Appointed Director of Experiment Station Nov. 16, 1889, and President of the Faculty May 17, 1890. He held both positions until June 30, 1894, when he was succeeded by Prof. J.H. Paul. The general plan of the experimental and school work was thought out by President Sanborn, and was developed, as circumstances would allow, during his administration.
1908 Commencement Program Page 6 Hon. W.S. McCornick President of Board from 1890 to 1907. His interest and financial standing did much to insure the success of the monetary affairs of the school. Miss Vendla Berntson Now Mrs. Wm. Fogelberg, was the first student registered at the college, September, 1890.
1908 Commencement Program Page 7 Program Monday Evening, June 1st, at 8:00 p.m. Piano Solo, “Erl King” … Mrs. Vendla Bernston Fogelberg Address, “The Establishment of the College and Organization of the Board” … Hon J.T. Hammond Address, “Early Work of the Board” … Hon A.L. Thomas Address, “Getting a Director” … Prof. J.T. Caine, Jr. Address … President J.W. Sanborn Address, “President Sanborn as President” … Prof. J.E. Shepard Address, “President Sanborn as Teacher” … Prof. L.A. Merrill Address, “President Sanborn and His Work in Utah”… President J.A. Widtsoe Vocal Solo … Mr. Alfred Stratford After these exercises a public reception will be held in the College Library.
1908 Commencement Program Page 8 The First Faculty Standing, Right to Left–E.S. Richman, J.M. Shell, Abbie L. Merlatt, Mrs. C.I. Goodwin, H.L. Everett, A.A. Mills. Sitting, Right to Left–W.P. Cutter, President J.W. Sanborn, J.T. Caine, Jr.
1908 Commencement Program Page 9 Historical Items 1888 March 8–Act establishing the Agricultural College of Utah passed by the territorial legislature. June 29–Governor Caleb W. West, Secretary W.C Hall, and Assessors J.T. Hammond, Cache Co.; J.H. Wilcox, Davis Co.; A.O. Smoot, Jr., Utah Co.; and Jesse W. Fox, Jr., Salt Lake Co., the Board of Trustees, met in Logan and organized by electing Gov. West president; J.T. Hammond, superintendent; J.T. Caine, Jr., secretary, and H.E. Hatch, treasurer. General plans were discussed but no definite action of importance was taken. 1889 March 26–After visiting a site for the College on Providence bench and two sites on Logan bench, the trustees formally accepted the present location, which had been proffered jointly, that day, by Cache County and Logan City. The secretary of the Board was instructed to advertise for plans for a college building. April 15–Four plans were submitted, one was adopted, and the secretary was ordered to advertise for bids for building. April 16–The exact site for the building was located. May 18–Contract for building let to Sommer, Peterson & Co. for $20,350.00, the building to be completed Nov. 1. June 21–After music by Logan Brass Band and speeches by Rev. H.L. Steves, Mr. J.A. Leishman, and Hon. Arthur L. Thomas, the corner stone was laid by Gov. Thomas. Sept. 30–In response to letters, Mr. Ed. Tarbell, of Cornell, proffered to come as director of Experiment Station. Oct. 12–Prof. Sanborn notified the Board that he would accept the position of Director. Oct. 19–Secretary was instructed to offer Prof. Sanborn $2,500 per year. Nov. 1–Secretary instructed to prepare a report to be submitted to the Legislature. Nov. 16– Prof. Sanborn declined the offer made Oct. 19, and was formally elected Director at $3,000 per year. Nov. 17–Secretary was instructed to notify the Department of Agriculture of the appointment of Prof. Sanborn, and to ask that $7,500, for the Utah Experiment Station, be included in the Deficiency Appropriation bill.