(From IT. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest 



G-073PJ&OTT SELLS TIMESR 

 IN CALIFORNIA} AND . AKIZOKA. 



Two sales of government timber, aggregating over 

 51,000,000 feet, are announced by the U. S. forest service, 

 The LaMoine Lumber and Trading Company contracts to cut 

 28,300,000 feet of saw timber from the Shasta National forest 

 of California, and the Se.p.ha77 and Manistee Lumber Company of 

 jaagstaff has purchased 24,300,000 feet of green and dead pine 

 fir tinner on the Tusayaa national forest of Arizona. 



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The California sale includes several kinds of timber 

 at the following r^tee per thousand feet: 325 for sugar pine, 

 2*25 for ye HOY/ pins, 1.25 for Douglas fir, and 50 cents for 

 other species. The cutting period is nine years , subject to a 

 readjustment of stumpage rates in 1918, 



The area on the Tusayan is near Williams, on the 

 -Santa Fe lines, which furnish ready access to the general 

 market;!. The tiiuber is to be cut prior to December 31, 1915", 

 and the contract price is $2*50 per thousand feet* 



In both these sales the timber will be cut by the 

 companies in conjunction with timber owned by them in the 

 vicinity* The government expects to get an approxiz&te gross 

 return of $115,000 from the two sales, of which about $23.750 

 w5.11 go to the counties in which those forests are situated, 



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