Show I t FOREST RESERVE LANDS r 1 Department Instructions for rOI fork t k Their Clarification Instructions havo been heen received by byj byI I j- j th the local United States Stales land lanti from the Department I of Agriculture A covering the classIfication and anel listingS listing S of If j nI lands In forest finest re- re serves er under the act of July 1 II 11 1 I 1906 OG Only QI lands chiefly valuable for few agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture and not for Co tj purposes by th the forest service ice pr Pu fOI for oine other public Ue will be he clas classified and listed 1 under tinder the tho act Land covered with merchantable timber tim tIm- her ber will not h bo 10 declared agricultural except upon the strongest evidence of oC its value for a agricultural i both a as to lo productiveness and accessibility bUlly to market 1 Areas known to have been occupied 1 by hy actual settlers pi prior lor to Jan Jun 1 I 1906 1106 I will be examined lint liiv t and when such areas are arc found to lo bo ho valuable chiefly chien t for I agriculture they will b bo ho listed d in order that thai the occupant may make I entry under tinder the act net The mere fact that a man has hus seti settled led upon the Iho land l however will not Influence the deI decision dej de de- j I with respect to Its Us agricultural t S Character S. S Tho The clu question of prior 1101 rl right ht to tu land landl l applied for according to the thc Hom can be determined by the Deti Dc- Dc ti Q of oC the Interior only and the time forest service ser will not investigate to lo toS S determine whether such lUch land was appropriated ap up- by a prior right The lii Ural st t tf f application received In Washington for an any one tract Is the one on which L S V examination will be made and nil all applications apr ap- ap r received in tho the same mall malt J. J will be treated as simultaneous t |