Sheet 1.

 N.B. -- Do not write on this sheet. Blank sheets will be furnished for the answers to the questions hereon. Number answers to correspond with numbers of questions.
Number consecutively the sheets of answers to questions hereon, and write in the following spaces the total number of such attached sheets: Number of sheets _____

 RATING
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 Question 2. (a) Describe in detail logging in a locality with which you are familiar, covering all operation, from felling the tree to delivery of logs at the sawmill, using all ordinary names applied to the men, operations, and implements. (b) Describe a sawmill with which you are familiar and describe how the logs are made into lumber.

 Question 3. What are the ordinary specifications of railroad ties, mining stull, lagging, fence posts? What is a cord of wood? A board foot? How are telephone poles generally measured? How are logs scaled? Name a log scale in common use in your locality and give the contents of logs of the following sizes by this scale:

• 16 feet long and 26 inches in diameter small end
• 18 feet long and 30 inches in diameter small end
• 24 feet long and 18 inches in diameter small end
• 12 feet long and 15 inches in diameter small end

 Question 5. State how you would construct a 14 by 18-foot log cabin? Give the amount of material necessary and approximate cost of construction.

 Sheet 2.

 Question 7. (a) Describe a method of handling range cattle in a district with which you are familiar. Range sheep. (b) Describe by diagram four brands and four earmarks and give the name by which each is known.

 Question 8. What constitutes valid residence on a homestead claim? What are the improvement and cultivation requirements and under what conditions can patent be obtained under the timber and stone act, the desert land act, and the placer mining laws?

 Question 9. How and for what purposes are National Forests created? How do they affect the water flow, agriculture, lumbering, grazing, and mining?

 Question 10. What are the chief duties of a Forest Ranger? Give a plan for protecting a specified tract of land against fire. How would you fight a fire on this tract if it had a good start?

 Sheet 3.

 The examiner must fill these blanks.
Date of examination _____________, 190___. Place of examination___________________________
Examination number __________________________________________________________________
Name of competitor __________________________________________________________________
______________________(Post-office), ______________________(County), ___________________ (State).
 
 

 Question 1. Saddle and bridle a horse. Ride a quarter of a mile and return (a) at a trot, (b) at a gallop. Time and manner of saddling and unsaddling to be taken into consideration by the examiner.

 Question 2. Pack a horse with a tent, two blankets, one-man cook outfit, axe, and shovel, and sufficient grain or provisions to make an entire pack weigh 150 pounds. No paniers to be used. Any satisfactory hitch to be accepted. (Rate on familiarity, neatness, and dispatch, and also experience as determined by oral questions. Competitors should not be allowed to watch the examination of other competitors.)

 Question 3. Estimate by pacing, the distance around a triangular tract of not less than one-half mile, giving the distance in rods, yards, and feet. (After all estimates have been submitted examiner will measure exact distance with tape or chain. The route should not be less than one-half mile in length.)

 Question 4. Set up a compass, and allowing for the variation given by the examining officer, indicate east, north 25 degrees west, south 50 degrees east. Take the bearing of a designated object and give the compass reading. (Allow only a reasonable length of time for the applicant to complete this test. Rate on quickness, accuracy, familiarity, and experience as determined by oral questions. No competitor should be allowed to watch the examination of other competitors.)

 Question 5. Run a compass line around a designated area and read and record the courses, allowing for the variation as given by the examining officer. (Lay out a five-sided irregular figure, with sides between 100 and 200 feet in length, setting proper poles or stakes at each angle. Allow only a reasonable length of time for the applicant to complete this test. Rate on quickness, accuracy, familiarity, and experience as determined by oral questions. No competitor should be allowed to watch the examination of other competitors.)
 

I hereby certify that the above-named competitor neither gave nor received assistance during his examination, and that ratings given by me are equitable and just, to the best of my knowledge and belief,

 (Signature of examiner) _________________________________ Date ____________, 190__
(Title) ______________________________________________

1925 Ranger Exam