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ficials believe that development in other directions may be looked 

 for, the necessary railway making accessible heretofore un- 

 developed resources. The whole region is rich in agricultural 

 land, in cattle and sheep range, and in coal and copper deposits, 

 as well as in timber. 



Bids for the timber will be received up to the middle of June, 

 1914, and three years will be allowed for the building of the 

 railroad and mills, and 25 years for the cutting of the timber. 

 The stumpage rates, however, will be readjusted at the end of 

 each five-year period of the contract, the readjustments being 

 based on the then current lumber prices. The annual cut will be 

 not less than 40 million feet, most of which will be readily sold 

 in the large consuming lumber markets of Utah and Colorado. 



The Kaibab forest is one of the most heavily timbered in the 

 southwest, the stand of timber being broken only occasionally by 

 beautiful meadows or openings locally known as parks. Lumber- 

 men who have visited it consider the country ideally adapted to 

 logging. There are, altogether, two billion feet of timber, of 

 which more than one billion feet are mature and ready for cut- 

 ting. 



Arrangements have just been made for the sale of 40 million 

 feet of timber on the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. This 

 forest is cut up by bays and inlets, some of which give an op- 

 portunity for taking the -timber from the mill to the decks of 

 ocean-going steamers. The Tongass forest is now self-supporting 

 its lumber product being used largely in local industries, much 

 going into boxes for canned salmon. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has designated a new area in the 

 southern Appalachians in which he thinks that lands should be 

 purchased by the Government for forest purposes in accordance 

 with the provisions of the Weeks law. This area is in north- 

 western Alabama, and includes 152,960 acres at the headwaters 

 of the Warrior River in Lawrence and Winston counties. For 

 a number of years extensive improvements by the Government 

 have been under construction on the Tombigbee and the War- 

 rior rivers, and a system of locks and dams to provide for 360 

 miles of navigable stream is now near completion. 



The presence of a forest cover to protect the headwaters of the 



