(Proa the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



San Francisco Office.) 



1S.KWS TCOT:03 OF . 



NATIONAL 'FORESTS 



The District Forester at San Francisco has 



approved a contract for the sale of approximately 19,000,0 

 feet of yellow pine, white fir and cedar to the California 

 Lumber Company of Loyalton. The timber is located on tho 

 watersheds of Smithneck and Badenoch Creeks within the 

 Tahoe National Forest. Cutting will "begin this season. 

 The contract allows 5 years for its completion. 



14,760,000 feet of pine, fir and cedar on the 

 Plumas National Forest are advertised for sale. Bids will 

 be received by the District Tor ester at San Francisco to 

 and including June 26, 1914. 



A tract of 27,000 acres supporting 315,640,000 

 feet of timber has bee.i cruisad by a party of rangers on 

 the Ivlodoc National National Forest and will be offered for 

 sale. The timber is situated on the plateau immediately 

 north of Pitt River and is near the proposed extension of 

 the Fernley and Lassen branch of the Southern Pacific to 

 TQamath Falls, Oregon. 



In order to control insect depredations this 

 spring, 2,1.";0 infested trees were cut on the Sierra, 



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