tailed estimate of the out ire tract, then compute a safe 

 estimate of tho percentage of species it will yield; then 

 advertise the tract with the statement 'uhat it will yield 

 such a percentage of species. It ine/f not always "be possible 

 to do this, hut I t hi nil that experience would soon show just 

 what the we all point was in nulling oaloulc/cionc , and very 

 readily your Officers would learn to approximate ru.it o ac- 

 curately the amount of the certain species the tract would 

 yield, and that would "be the Irey-note to Dotting the "best 

 price, 



I don't "believe that the average pmchaser v;ho is 

 not familiar with the tract is going to take such interest 

 in the advertisement v/hich the Government puts out offering 

 a tract for sale unless he has put "before him a statement 

 of how much of the various species the tract will render. 

 Of course, if the possible purchaser has a tract in mind 

 with which he is familiar, that is another thin^ - but in 

 order to get the beet price it is necessary to attract a 

 number of people able to pay the price, end I don't believe 

 you will >ot that general consideration on ti- ber sales, un- 

 til the purchaser is told before he neeu go to the tract, 

 that, roughly spe airing, it will render 66-2/5/J, or some 

 other definite amount to be cut, that of that percentage a 

 certain amount will be in pines and a certain amount in 

 other species, ^t once then a purchaser has something on 



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