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NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER FOR SALE. 



SEALED BIDS will be received by the Dutrict 

 Forester, San Francisco, California, up to 

 and including November 15, 1918, for all the 

 merchantable dead timber standing or down 

 and all the live timber marked or designated 

 for cutting in all or any of the following com- 

 partments, Shasta National Forest, California. 



COMPARTMENT 1. This area consists of 

 about 9,022 acres made up of whole or parts of 

 the following Sections: T. 42 N R. 3 W M. D. 

 M. Sections 2, 4, , 8, 10, 16, 18, 20 and 22; T. 42 

 N.. R. 4 W., Section 12; T. 43 N., R. 1 W., Sec- 

 tion 18; T. 43 N., R. 2 W Section 24; T. 43 N., 

 R. 3 W., Sections 26 and 34; T. 44 N., R. 3 W., 

 Sections 30 and 32; T. 45 N., R. 1 W Sections 

 24 and 26; T. 45 N., R. 1 E., Sections 19, 21, 27, 

 28, 31. 32, 33 and 34; T. 45 N., R. 3 W., Sections 

 28 and 32; containing an estimated amount of 

 76,548 M. ft. B. M. of yellow pine, 5,541 M. It. 

 B. M. of white fir and 423 M. ft. B M. of incense 

 cedar timber, more or less. 



COMPARTMENT 2. This area consists of 

 about 1,120 acres made up of whole or parts of 

 the following Sections: T. 42 N R. 2 W., M. D. 

 M., Section 4; T. 43 N., R. 2 W., Sections 26 and 

 34; containing an estimated amount of 11,552 M. 

 ft. B. M. yellow pine, 6,650 M. ft. B. M. white 

 fir, 1000 M. ft. B. M. red fir, 275 M. ft. B. M. 

 Douglas fir, more or less. A cut of 75 per cent 

 pine from this compartment will be guaranteed 

 in the timber sale contract if desired by the 

 purchaser. 



COMPARTMENT 3. This area consists of 

 about 360 acres in Sections 6 and 8, T. 44 N., 

 R. 1 W., M. D. M containing an estimated 

 amount of 1,611 M. ft. B. M. of yellow pine, more 

 or less. 



COMPARTMENT 4. This area consists of 

 about 240 acres in Section 1, T. 44 N., R. 1 W., 

 M. D. M., containing an estimated amount of 

 200 M. ft. B. M. yellow pine, more or less. 



No bid of less than $2.75 per M. for yellow 

 pine, 75c. per M. for Douglas fir and 50c. per 

 M. for white fir, red fir and incense cedar will 

 be considered. Rates to be readjusted at three 

 year intervals if the contract period is longer 

 than five years. Deposit with bid $5,000 for 

 Compartment 1; $1,000 for Compartment 2; $200 

 for Compartment 3, and $100 for Compartment 4. 

 The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. 

 Before bids are submitted full information con- 

 cerning the timber, the conditions of sale and 

 submission of bids should be obtained from the 



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AN AMERICAN FORESTER 

 ABROAD 



UNDER date of June 7, from "Some- 

 where in France," Tom Luther, son of 

 Thomas C. Luther, proprietor of the 

 White Sulphur Spring Hotel, Saratoga 

 Lake, writes interestingly of the work of 

 the American Foresters in France, as 

 follows : 



"It has been my firm intention to write 

 you ever since I have been over here, which 

 represents some time now, as we already 

 have our first service stripe, representing 

 six months in the Zone of the Advance or 

 the Zone of Supplies. 



"We would all like to be up front to a 

 man, especially now during the Boche of- 

 fensive, which is doomed to failure. It's 

 never a question of who will win never ! 

 It's always 'How long will it take to lick 

 them in real American style?' Many of 

 the companies of my regiment are working 

 within sound of the big guns and even 

 under fire tin hats and gas masks being 

 in order. We are not so fortunate, since 

 we are working in the maritime pine forests. 

 "Having had the preference over many 

 thousands of combatant troops of coming 

 over many months ahead of them we feel 

 that our work is important, but it doesn't 

 appeal to the red-blooded American, as do 

 the trenches with possible military honors. 

 Nevertheless, our mark, my own company's 

 mark, now stretches from the piling and 

 timbers used in the piers, where our ever- 

 aiming transports land, clear up and out 

 into 'No Man's Land,' where our entangle- 

 ment stakes are being used for the barb- 

 wire. 



"Company C's 'trademark' can be found 

 in the great warehouses at the ports of 

 debarkation, at the rest camps, on the ties 

 supporting our own railroads, on the duck- 

 boards in the trenches and on the props 

 used in the dug-outs. To say nothing of 

 the fuelwood we ship everywhere. 



"There is hardly a nook or corner of 

 France where the American soldier can- 

 not be found today. Instead of 'Some- 

 where in France,' it should be 'Every- 

 where in France.' 



"Our mills are running night and day and 

 personally I have to be on the job seven 

 days a week, as I'm looking after the ship- 

 ping. 



"I know you are interested in efficiency ; 

 therefore, I cannot help but take this op- 

 portunity to tell you a bit of French ef- 

 ficiency. It is their railroads. An Ameri- 

 can must laugh at them. The cars and 

 engines are so small and I cannot help 

 but recall my ride from a base port here in 

 a wee small box car with some thirty-five 

 other men. I would not have believed that 

 one small car could hold so many of the 

 men if there had not been a written guar- 

 antee in good French on the outside to the 

 effect that the car would hold thirty-six 

 to forty men or eight horses. To return 

 to the point, America could well take a 



lesson from their 'petite' railroads in the 

 wonderful way in which they have for 

 four long years done everything and much 

 more than could be expected. They have 

 been 100 per cent efficient, or the British 

 and French armies would have been lost 

 long before this. Of America we all read 

 last winter of the freight 'tie-ups' and all 

 they couldn't be over here. But my real 

 point is I take off my hat to the French 

 and British. 



"We do salute you all back home for 

 the unbelievable way in which you are 

 all giving to the Red Cross, to the Y. M. 

 C. A., and the Salvation Army. There 

 seems to be no end to your capacity to 

 give it's that wonderful feeling that every- 

 one everywhere back home is right behind 

 you that will bring this war to a speedier 

 end. If you all could but see one incident 

 of what your giving means you would be 

 glad through and through. Only the other 

 day I saw several refugees from the last 

 invaded districts who were eating food 

 from the American canteens bought with 

 your money poor old men and feeble 

 women with their teeth in many cases 

 eaten out by German gas (there's some- 

 thing even poisonous about the name Ger- 

 man now), and the little girls, their hair 

 gone gas ! And one small boy totally 

 blind for life more gas !" 



Mr. Luther has been in the Zone of Ad- 

 vance or the Zone of Supplies for six 

 months and wears a first service stripe. 

 New York Lumber Trade Journal. 



SAVE YOUR NUT SHELLS AND 

 FRUIT PITS 



EVERY American has the chance for 

 direct war service that will save the 

 lives of soldiers. Carbon is needed to 

 make millions of gas masks for the Amer- 

 ican Army. Cocoanuts have furnished 

 much of this material, but cocoanuts mean 

 ships, and during the present shortage ma- 

 terial for carbon must be found nearer 

 home. The pits of apricots, peaches, 

 prunes, olives, dates, cherries and plums 

 and the shells of Brazil nuts, hickory nuts, 

 walnuts and butternuts maks carbon for gas 

 masks that will outlast the most diabolical 

 of the German gases. 



Here is work for all, every home, church 

 and school. Urge the boys and girls to 

 scour the woods for nuts and incite your 

 patriotic organizations to rivalry in mak- 

 ing collections. See that the work is start- 

 ed in your neighborhood. Place collection 

 boxes in schools, churches, banks and stores, 

 and above all in your own home so your 

 boys and girls can see the pile grow. It 

 takes two hundred peach stones or seven 

 pounds of nut shells to furnish carbon for 

 a gas mask and save the life of an Ameri- 

 can soldier. How many masks can your 

 neighborhood furnish? 



Dry the pits and shells before turning 

 them into the nearest Red Cross chapter. 

 This organization is in charge of collect- 

 ing all material. 



