Show forest officials A to make surveys survey s an announcement that will bo be gladly welcomed by hundreds of homesteaders homestead era within the national forests throughout the tha west line has just cume come from wash ington ing tonto to tho effect that an arrangement has been perfected whereby metes and bounds homesteads in the forenti cabbe can be sarv ed by officers ot of the forest service without expense to the eniry entry tuen men the law by authority ot at the national forests wore were editah made no provision for homesteads hotnes tenda in tile national forests when a great jnnny forests had been proclaimed however how evor it was RB ouid impossible to adjust their boundaries in a manner to on en eni i leave out the agricultural lands landa us its small tracts were through out many of 0 the timbered areas the forestor forester recognized the desirability of providing for the home homesteading of these tracts und dratted drafted and suggested the ot tile the forest homestead act ot of june 11 1000 in dis tilot 4 there have hae been more than 1100 1400 homesteads taken in the national forests under the provisions ol of tho net act it bappe happened that a great many ot of theeo tracts of agricultural lands in the forests were in country and luro was no provision for their survey except as aa the public land survey could be extended in the usual manner ac A c cordingly cording lyl tho the forest homestead act provided for the opening of these lands landa tu to entry by special metes metea and bounds surveys made ly the forest officers which wore were however not recognized by tho the land officio na as as a basis upon which to issue patent end and the ole tryman on for each tract trac waa required to td furnish at his hia expense a second survey duade by a surveyor su designated signaled de by and under the instructions of the surveyor general the forest ser service vice ma re than tour four years ago suggested to the lart land 1 I office the desirability of 0 some come plan of operation cooperation co o to obviate the necessity of two surveys and to relieve the of auy any expense in that connection A suggestive plan was waa outlined outline 4 and conferences feren ces and correspondence had between the two departments it was found however that the plan was not n ot feasible without some additional liekis i lation which has now been een secured so cu rad and the details ot of the co operative arrange arrau ment worked out J va adiv in anticipation of this plan the for FG ost service has been making special effort to have everything in readiness by the first of july when the department of agriculture appropriation bill goes into effect making th e funds available district forester Fo reater E BA A orman of the ogden office announces that so far astae as the forest service end of the matter is concerned everything is in readiness readi neES to begin the actual work in the field on july 1 the law requires that tile the forest officers who do this work houpt have the approval of 0 the surveyors general of the various states in which tho the work is to be ba done district forester Fore Fo reater oter sherman states that the whole personnel perr onuel of his district has been gone over carefully pare fully in the selection ot the men to be recommended to the surveyors general for assignment to this abis work and only those boso of known ability as survey surveyors sur veora orb will at first be recommended om mended in district 4 embracing utah nevada most of idaho and por eions of wyoming and arizona the field work will baunder be under the direction of 13 ii wheeler ot of the ogden office by J 0 brown C F calvert and W B wee rice that the announcement will bo be welcome belcome to many homesteaders homestead era said district forester sherman can be ftp preci atod abed by all who know what it manns to a struggling homesteader to know that he bo is relieved of the expense ot of a survey agricultural lands in the forests aro are usually in remote stations seat ions and survey ors ore have in most instances had to be brought from a distance nod and surveys in this Dia triet have been known to cost as high us as three or four hundred dollars government and cary at act reclamation projects and of laan landa ds from the states have very largely drawn the intending settlers who have been baa favored with funds to any extent while jn in a vast majority of cases the settlers in the national forests are the home akere okere who have been by force of circumstances dr op cum curn stances compelled to seek beek t the cheaper land and I 1 know that I 1 speak for the forest service no as a whole and every individual n a riber ober thereof when I 1 say that I 1 am bear heartily tily glad to know that the settlers in the national forests are relieved of this burder burden and an d we ex hect in the tha future as we have in ill tho the past to do the very best beat we canto t 0 facilitate the work and plans p ore 0 boon bona tide fide homesteaders in the National i forests t V r |