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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



101,000,000 



FEET 



National Forest 

 Timber 



FOR SALE 



Location and Amount All the mer- 

 chantable dead timber standing or 

 down and all the live timber marked 

 or designated for cutting on the 

 Lava Bed Logging Chance, em- 

 bracing about 6,400 acres in Town- 

 ships 41 and 42 N., R. 3 E., M. D. 

 M., Shasta National Forest, Cali- 

 fornia, estimated to be 80,000,000 

 feet B. M. of yellow pine, 9,000,000 

 feet B. M. of sugar pine, 10,400,000 

 feet B. M. of white and Douglas 

 fir, and 1,800,000 feet B. M., of in- 

 cense cedar, a total of 101,200,000 

 feet B. M. of saw timber, more or 

 less. The chance also embraces 

 the timber on about 800 acres in 

 Townships 41 and 42 N., R. 3 E., 

 M. D. M., estimated to be 12,000,000 

 feet B. M., more or less, all species, 

 the cutting of all or any part of 

 which will be at the option of the 

 purchaser, subject to the approval 

 of the forest supervisor. 



Stumpage Prices Lowest rates con- 

 sidered, $4.00 per M ft. B. M. for 

 yellow pine, $4.50 per M ft. B. M. 

 for sugar pine, $1.25 per M ft. B. M. 

 for white and Douglas fir and in- 

 cense cedar, and for material un- 

 merchantable under the terms of 

 the contract, to be removed at the 

 option of the purchaser, for which 

 payment is required by the Forest 

 Service. $0.50 per M ft. B. M. 

 Rates to be readjusted July 1, 1924. 



Deposit Ten thousand ($10,000.00) 

 dollars must be deposited with each 

 bid to be applied to the purchase 

 price, refunded, or retained in part 

 as liquidated damages, according 

 to conditions of sale. 



Final Date for Bids Sealed bids 

 will be received by the District 

 forester, San Francisco, California, 

 up to and including March 1, 1921. 

 The right to reject any and all 

 bids is reserved. Before bids are 

 submitted, full . information con- 

 cerning the character of the timber, 

 conditions of sale, deposits, and 

 the submission of bids should be 

 obtained from the District Fores- 

 ter, San Francisco, California, or 

 the Forest Supervisor, Sisson. 

 California. 



STATE NEWS 



CALIFORNIA 

 r pHE State Board of Forestry of Cali- 

 fornia has asked the timbermen and 

 lumbermen of that State to assist the board 

 in carrying out a constructive forest policy 

 and the latter have responded "we will." 



As provided in the law adopted in 1919 

 the Board consists of four persons appoint- 

 ed by the governor 



"One of whom shall be familiar with the 

 timber industry, one with the live stock 

 industry, one with the grain and hay in 

 dustry, and one at large, who, together 

 with the State Forester, shall constitute 

 the State Board of Forestry, which shall 

 supervise and direct all matters of -State 

 forest policy, management and protection." 



The Board met with the timbermen and 

 lumbermen in San Francisco on Friday, 

 November 5, and the President, former 

 Governor George C. Pardee, in opening the 

 meeting, stated that the Board has two 

 particular objects to protect and utilize 

 the present forests to the greatest advant- 

 age and to provide forests for the future. 

 In working to secure these objects the 

 essential things are fire prevention and 

 suppression and reforestation. He said that 

 the first thing to be done is to provide for 

 effective slash disposal as a means of pre- 

 venting destructive fires, and asked the 

 timber owners and operators present to 

 pledge themselves to dispose of their slash 

 in the most effective and practical way, ac- 

 cording to the different conditions with 

 which they have to deal. Everyone present 

 agreed to do this and to keep the Board 

 informed as to the best methods and the 

 lessons learned by experience. From this 

 it is planned to formulate a set of rules 

 for slash disposal that will make it general 

 and effective, and Dr. Pardee made it clear 

 that the Board wishes these rules to come 

 from the operators, arising out of their 

 experience and observation, and formulated 

 by the Board in co-operation with th- 

 Ways and means for fighting forest fires 

 and for reforesting cut-over lands will be 

 worked out, the timbermen and lumbermen 

 taking the initiative and co-operating in 

 every particular with the State Board of 

 Forestry. 



Such hearty good will and confidential 

 understanding assure perpetuation of the 

 redwood and pine forests of California. 

 The Board recognizes that the timber own- 

 ers and lumber manufacturers are inter- 

 ested primarily in the present forests; and 

 the timbermen and lumbermen, as express- 

 ed by several of those (present, recognizes 

 that the State is charged with duty of per- 

 petuating the forests for the use and bene- 

 fit of future generations. This mutual 

 recognition of objects and interests will 

 surely result in constructive plans of for- 

 estry that can be put into practice with- 



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out friction and with continual improve- 

 ment from experience and observation. 



As a further evidence of the spirit of 

 mutual confidence and trust the timber 

 owners and lumbermen voted unanimously 

 to support the Board in its request to the 

 next legislature for an appropriation of 

 $83,000 for fire fighting and $150,000 for 

 the ipurchase of cut-over lands. This will 

 enable the Board to do its part in protecting 

 the present forests and to start a system of 

 state forests that will initiate both features 

 of forest perpetuation in California. 



NEW JERSEY 



A N act of the Legislature of 1920 making 

 mandatory the teaching of fire preven- 

 tion one hour a month in all schools of 

 New Jersey has made a new and valuable 

 opening for forest fire propaganda. The 

 text-book selected is the Fire Prevention 

 Manual for the School Children of Ameri- 

 ca, prepared by the National Board of Fire 

 Underwriters, and the New Jersey edition 

 has been supplemented by a chaipter on 

 Forest Fires, by State Firewarden C. P. 

 Wilber. 



The publication "Fighting Forest Fires" 

 illustrated by photographs and diagrams, 

 treating upon the forest fire situation in 

 New Jersey and the remedy of the menace 

 has met with such a popular demand that 

 the first edition of 3000 copies was'ex-- 



