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Show orR)Rst DEVICE ORGANIZATION OFFELD MAMS RMG'JtM C&BW Plans for tho forest scrvlco flold hcndquarterB whlqh oro soon to ho established es-tablished In the west nro being rapidly worked out In detail. Each headquarters headquar-ters will be modeled after the Washington Wash-ington ofilco. In all thcro will bo bIx distinct headquarters, one located at each of tho present Inspection district headquarters Portland, San Francisco, Francis-co, Alhuquorquc, Salt Lnke, Denvor nnd Missoula, Mont., or some other points equally well or better located for tho purpose. At tho head ot each office thoro will be a district forester and an assistant district forester. Undor thco will bo exports In charge of tho various lines of work. A chief ot grazing will havo charge ot range matters. A chief of products will handlo tho prcsorvntlve treatment of tlnibor and strength tests nnd study markot conditions. A chlof of lnnds will look after auch matters .as land examinations. Tho ofllco ot lands deals with questions Involving tho validity of claims assorted undor tho public land laws; applications for special uso of tho resources ot tho national forests; chaugos In boundaries bound-aries of forests, and tho examination of lnnds applied for under tho act of Juno 11, 190C, for agricultural settlement. settle-ment. Tho forest service, however, nover passes on the titles thomselvos. That Is entirely a matter for the general land olllco to decide. In tho caso of applications for homesteads under tho. act ot Juno 11, 190(1, tho forest sorvlco Is called upon to decide whether tho land Is In fact more valuable for agriculture agri-culture than for timber, nnd If It Is, to recommend Us listing as opon to entry and patent. In the cobo of claims tho sorvlco ascertains whether uny facts exist which seem to show that tho claim Is not a legal one, In order that natlonnl forest land may not bo unlawfully unlaw-fully taken up. But It rests always with tho land o(!lcc of the Interior do partmcnt to decldo whether tho title should or should not bo granted. Tho branch of lands In tho district forest service organization does not mean nny new assumption of land business. Thcro will also bo In each district o chief ot silviculture, who will hav chargo of timber sales, planting nnd sllvlcnl experiments, nnd n chlof of op oration. The latter will supervise the personnel of tho forests; tho permanent perma-nent improvement work, through an engineer In chnrgo; the accounts of tho district. Including receipts, dls bursomonts and bookkeeping, which will be directly supervised by an ex pert nccountant; and the routine bust ncss of tho district. In each ot tho lines ot work tin management will bo In tho hands ot I man who Is u specialist and who hat had thorough experience both In th west and In Washington. Tho for esters and clerks at each district head quarters will number about CO. The establishment of theso field dls trlcts will bring tho service into mort Immedlato touch with the public. B Is merely tho completion of tho move metit, started somo tlmo ago, to hav( tho forests administered as far as poa slblo by men actually on the ground. Tho change will not nffect the Investigative In-vestigative work of tho sorvlco, whlct will center, as htthorto, In Washing ton. Mr. Plnchot Is expected soon tc nnme tho men who will fill the various positions. |