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than ever before at any one time, they are for much larger amounts, 

 and for a number of them negotiations appear to be nearing comple- 

 tion. The increased activity in the lumber market also presages a 

 much larger volume of sales business than ever before. 



The sales in 1012 of nearly 800.000,000 feet, or almost twice the 

 actual cut, following the sale in 1911 of 830,000,000 feet, gives every 

 indication of a substantial increase in the 1913 receipts. This may 

 the more confidently be predicted since the receipts for the first three 

 months of the year 1913 exceed those for the same period of the year 

 1912 by approximately $80,000. The average price received for 

 timl)er sold during the year was $2, as against $2.5G for the year 1911. 

 The decrease was due chiefly if not wholly to the large amount of 

 fire-killed timber sold at low rates. 



The following classification according to the size of sales shows 

 that out of a total of 5,772 sales, 5,727 were for amounts less than $5,000, 

 and that 5,179 were for amounts under $100. Through small sales the 

 Forest Service supplies the needs of the people living in and near the 

 forests and furnishes business opportunities to the small operator. 

 It is the aim to give all possible encouragement to such sales, which 

 in the long run should form the mainstay of the national forest tim- 

 ber business. The new policy with regard to large sales by no means 

 substitutes such sales for those made to supply the small mill, but 

 opens up new territory which the small operator will be able to enter 

 later on. 



Number of timber sales, fiscal year 1912, classified according to amount of sale. 



Arizona 



Arkansas 



California 



Colorado 



Florida 



Idaho 



Kansas 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Montana 



Nebraska. 



Nevada 



New Mexico... 

 North Dakota. 



Oklahoma 



Oregon 



South Dakota. 



Utah 



Wwhlngrton... 



Wyoming 



Alaska 



Stat«. 



Under 

 $100. 



507 

 28 

 575 

 674 

 6 

 463 



$100 to 

 $500. 



27 

 10 

 37 

 30 



CO 



$500 to 

 $1,000. 



3 



2 



9 



14 



$1,000 to 

 $5,000. 



1 

 7 



12 

 19 



Over 

 $5,000. 



Total 

 number 

 of sales. 



539 

 49 

 635 

 743 

 6 

 546 



Total. 1912. 

 Total, 1911. 



3 



2 



1,131 



1 

 95 



1 

 20 



261 



287 



1 



33 

 198 

 149 

 364 



67 

 133 

 297 



8 

 16 



6 



1 



20 



7 



11 



49 



5,179 

 5,144 



878 

 327 



78 

 70 



1 



25 



92 

 73 



45 



3 



5 

 1,273 



270 



313 



1 



33 

 221 

 153 

 395 



80 

 147 

 355 



5,772 

 5,653 



SALES OF TURPENTINE. 



The application of forest management on the Florida \ational 

 Forest includes provision for turpentining. Tlie old method of box- 

 ing was very destructive of timber, and some years ago the Forest 

 Service introduced conservative methods which reduce such loss to a 

 minimum. When the Florida National Forest was placed under 



70481°— AGB 1912- 



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