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BRANCH OF SILVICULTURE. 

 OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT. 



Administrative Use of Timber 



Forest officers when submitting applications for the administrative use of timber 

 by telephone companies should be careful to see that the applications contain the 

 following clause: 



" We do hereby grant to any and all members of the Forest Service of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, the free use of our telephone line for official busi- 

 ness for a period of years from the date of approval of this agreement, and agree 

 to install for the official use of the employees of the said Forest Service at the office 

 of the Forest Service at and any other office or offices hereafter established in 

 towns in which the lines of the said company already exist or to which they are 

 extenaed, telephone instruments of the best quality furnished to any customers or 

 patrons of said company, and to maintain the same in good serviceable condition for 



a period of years without charge or toll, the line to be completed within 



years from the date of approval of this agreement. We further agree that should 

 the Forest Service build any lines within the aforesaid period, connection may be 

 made with our existing or proposed lines at any point or points without charge or 

 toll or extra expense whatever." 

 Timber Sales for First Four Months of 1907 



The following table shows the amount and value of the timber applied for and sold 

 from the National forests during January, February, March, and April, 1907, and 

 also the totals for the year 1906: 



Cost of Marking- Timber 



The following reports on the cost of marking timber for cutting have been 

 received: 



On the Shoshone Division of the Yellowstone, in a mixed stand of lodgepole pine 

 and red fir, made up of small trees, marking has cost from 4 to 5 cents per thousand. 



Marking on the Carbon Timber Company's sale in the Medicine Bow (Wyo.) 

 National Forest, cost about 6 cents per thousand feet B. M. The timber is small, 

 however, and climatic conditions were very unfavorable. 



The cost of marking yellow pine in Arizona has been shown in one sale to be 

 about 3 cents per thousand. 



Sale of Hemlock 



Approximately 50,000,000 feet B. M. of Douglas fir, cedar, and hemlock in the 

 Washington National Forest (West), is now being advertised under an application 

 from Morse and Nestos, of Glacier, Wash. An important point in connection with 

 this sale is the recognition by lumbermen of the value of hemlock. The minimum 

 stumpage rate for this species named in the notice of sale is $1.50 per M feet B. M. 



