UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 FO REST SERVICE 



From the Forest Service, United. Scutes Department of 



San Francisco Oifice ) 



TII.E3EH CRUISEE ON 

 CALIFORNIA FOHES-TS 



The U. S. Poreot Service reports that th^ wor 1 : of 

 cruising end me p ping the national forrsts in California has 

 just closed i or the season. luring the summer three parties 

 of from five to eight men each covered 176,706 acres and ijacU. 

 a careful appraisal ^f timber amounting to a little over two 

 and one -half billion feet. 



" r ork wab concentrated upon bodies of timber for wMe 

 applications to purchase 'are expected by the Forest Service ir_ 

 the near future* The appraisal of the Last Chance watershed PL 

 the Plumas National Forest \vi, completed; in the Sierra Forest 

 ?.n area of 41,590 acres on Patterson Ilountain was mapped; and 

 on the California national Forest two bodies of timber, one o: 

 Grindstone Creek and ;he other east of Hull fountain, were 



covered. 



In addition to these , a party of two men made a re- 

 connaissance examination of the Lower Xlamath country on the 

 lOai^Gth National Torest, which extends from Happy Camp c'own 

 the river to the west boundary of the Forest below Orleans. 

 This area includes 501,013 acres with a stand of merchantable 

 timber estimated at 3,900,000,000 feet. Special interest has 

 attached bo this timber in connection with a proposition to rv.i 

 a railroad clown the Xlamath River to the Coast which has been 

 under discussion. 



