Show Land Lanc Office Issues New List of Re Be Requirements Requirements The following instructions have haft been Issued by the department t t of or tile the interior and will prove of interest to users of timber Umber By virtue of the pOwer vested in thu secretary of or the r r by the first fiUL section of She act of or June e t I 1571 entitled l lAn An act authorizing the dUSena of Colo Colt Colorado Colorado rado redo Nevada and th the territories territorial to fell felland felland felland and remove Jf Ie timber limber on the public for mining mini and domestic purposes purpose the thu following rules Miles and regulations are arc here bere hereby hereby by prescribed 1 I The rhe act applies to the states of Colo Colorado Cob Col rado Montana Idaho Wyoming North Dakota South Dakota and Utan and the territories of New Mexico art ara Arizona and all other mineral district of the United States Statu 2 2 The land from which timber nay may IH be felled or removed under the provisions of fir this act ad must muM be known to b be of a strict strictly Strictly strictly ly mineral minerai character and not Snot subject tu to entry under u r existing laws of th the I States except for mineral entry Parties who take timber Umber from the public mb under as of this act mu i itan stand tan l prepared to show that their acts art an within th the prescribed terms of if the law granting puch mch privilege the burden bonito being on such U b parties of ot proving by a ap preponderance p of evidence that tiff tiet land Ian from which the tb Umber timber is taken is min mineral mineral eral erat within the meaning of the act art 3 3 The privileges privilege granted gran led are art t 1 tto to citizens of the United States and aDd persons bona bone fide residents of tile the states tas territories and other mineral districts provided for Cor in the act 4 f I The uses for which timber may bo bt felled or removed are limited by the word wording log big of the act to building agricultural mining or other oilier domestic purposes es 5 ii No timber is permitted to be De felled feud feudor or removed for lor purposes es of sale or traffic tram or to manufacture the same into lumber lum or other timber product as an article of merchandise or for any other use what whatsoever except as defined in section 4 of these rules and regulations R G i Ro No timber cut or removed under the th pro provisions lon of or this act may be transport transported ed 55 out of oC the state or Ol territory where procured 7 No o Umber timber is permitted to be u ed for fr smelting purposes s smelting being a sep sop separate separate arate arnIe and distinct industry from that of mining 8 No growing trees of any an kind what whatsoever whatsoever ver lass ls than eight inches in diem diameter eter are permitted to be cut cutt cuta 9 t Persons P felting falling or 01 removing OVing timber under the provisions of this set art must muar utilize eli all of each eath tree cot ent that tha can cn h he profitably pl bly used UNd and must dispose of oC the t ho tops brush and other refuse in such auch manner aa as to prevent the spread ap of for forest est eat fires 10 These rules and regulations ions shall 1 take tak effect Feb 15 Ii and all existing rules and regulations regulation heretofore pre pro prescribed scribed under waler mM Mid met act by this department are hereby i |