| Show TO THOSE WHO USE TIMBER Department of the InterIor Instructions GoY TheIr Acton Action to Protect on Lilli in III several of the Iho Smite The following In instructions have been 1 issued by the department or of the Interior will VIII prove proe ot of Interest to users ot of timber Dy virtue ot of the power vested ested In the tho secretary of the interior b by the first firt sec of at the tho not ot of June 3 ms 1878 entItled An net the ot of Cot Col orado Nevada and the tho s to tell fell and emore Umber timber on the publIc domain for tor mining and domestic pur Iose the rules and regu are arc d 1 The net act tl tb the States ot of Colorado Montana Idaho WyomIng North Dakota South Dakota and Utah and the ot of No New Mexico anti 1 Arizona and all other rain min mineral oral eral ot of the United States 2 The lurid IlInd from which timber may maybe maybe be felled or removed under the provis provisIons Ions ot of this Act must bo be known to be ot of ota I ft a strictly mineral character and not subject to entry under existing laws ot of I the UnIted States except for tor mIneral entry Parties who take tako timber tram Irons the publIc lands landl under assumed author lIy 11 ot of this net act must stand prepared to Iho show that their stein are within the pro pre proscribed scribed terms term I of oC the law grantIng such Buch prIvIlege the burden being on such par parties II ties II of proving by a preponderance ot of evidence that the land tram rota whIch the tho timber limber Is Inken Is mineral Within the meaning ot of the act acl 3 The privileges granted are arc con can confined fined to citizens ot of the United States Billies and other vereon bont fide residents of at the States Territories and other mineral minerai districts provided for tor In the tho act 4 Tue fhe u uses el for which timber may be betell tell felled ell or removed are ure limited by the tho wording of the net to 10 agri agricultural cultural mining or other domestic pur purpose purposes poses pose I 6 No timber is II to be relied or removed remond for Cor purposes ot of sale or trat lie fic or to manufacture the tho Into lumber or other timber as al an article or of merchandise t or for tor any 01 other her use whatsoever eX all as In section of 4 ot of these thele rules and regulations 6 No timber rut or removed under the provisions of thIs act mn may bo be trans transported ported out ot of the State Stale or Territory where procured 7 No timber Is permitted to be used for tor smelting purposes smelting being a separate anti distinct Industry tram from that or of mininG S 8 No growing trees of an any kind whatsoever lell loss than eight Inches In dl are to be cut cui 9 felling fellin or removing tim bar ber under the or of this net act must all ot of tac tree tret cut that can be profitably u used ed and must die po e or of the t I brush and other refuse In suds luch scanner as to the spread ot of forest fires 10 These rules and r regulations shall take effect February 15 1900 and all lIsting existing rules and regulations hereto heretofore toro fore prescribed said eald act b by this department arc hereby rescinded |
