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$20 and $7.50, respectively, by the Computer Manufacturing- Company, 

 25 California street, San Francisco. 



The Pe Ell Logging Company of Pe Ell, Washington, is reported 

 to have found the use of motor trucks of 3^ and 5 ton capacity a 

 very satisfactory method for transporting timber from small and iso- 

 lated bunches of timber to the mill. Trucks average, both empty and 

 loaded, about ten miles per hour on inferior roads, one truck doing the 

 work of ten teams. The average time for loading a truck is five 

 minutes, and for unloading from two to five minutes. 



During the fiscal year 1916, 705,872 acres of National Forest timber- 

 lands were estimated and mapped intensively and 1,093,006 exten- 

 sively. In all, 20,815,798 acres have been mapped by intensive and 

 47,291,660 by extensive methods. The work of classifying- and open- 

 ing to homestead entry such lands in the National Forests as are chiefly 

 valuable for agriculture is progressing rapidly. Already over 70 mil- 

 lion acres have been covered by field examination and the final reports 

 acted upon. 



On recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and by procla- 

 mation of the President lands approximating 50,000 acres have been 

 added to the Whitman National Forest, Oregon. Over 4,000 acres are 

 canceled claims, which carry a total estimated stand of nearly 46,- 

 000,000 feet b. m. of timber. Much of the other additional land is 

 privately owned, consisting largely of cut-over timberland, rapidly re- 

 producing timber growth. One portion of the act of Congress author- 

 izing the addition provides especially for the exchange of Government 

 timber for privately owned lands in the Whitman National Forest 

 which may be chiefly valuable for the production of timber or the 

 protection of streamflow. Several applications for exchanges of this 

 character have already been submitted. 



By way of stimulating woodlot owners to a better utilization, the 

 State Board of Forestry of Indiana claims that the fuel value of a 

 cord (128 cubic feet) of good beech, sugar, or hickory wood equals 

 that of a ton of soft coal. The average price of wood is about half 

 that of coal. In other words, we pay double the price for the luxury 

 of burning coal. This statement leaves out of consideration the labor 



