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SALE OF TIMBER, 

 MESCALERO INDIAN RESERVATION, 

 ELK AND SILVER CREEK UNIT 



Sealed bids in duplicate, marked outside "Bid 

 Elk and Silver Creek Unit," and addressed to 

 Superintendent Mescalero Indian School, Mes- 

 calero. New Mexico will be received until twelve 

 o'clock noon. Mountain Time, Saturday, May 1, 

 1920, for the purchase of timber on a tract with- 

 in the Elk and Silver Creek drainage areas on 

 the southern part of the Mescalero Indian Reser- 

 vation lying west of the range line between 

 ranges 14 and 15 East of New Mexico Principal 

 Meridian. The said unit includes about 30,000 

 acres of unallotted timber land with an estimated 

 stand _ of one hundred seventy million feet as 

 to which contract will be made with the superin- 

 tendent. Approximately 55 per cent of the timber 

 within the unit is western yellow pine (in- 

 cluding so-called "Black Jack" or "Bull Pine.") 

 30 per cent Douglas fir and 15 per cent white 

 fir. Mexican pine and Engelmann spruce. Each 

 bid must state the price per thousand feet 

 Scribner Decimal C Log scale that will be paid 

 for timber cut and scaled prior to April 1, 1925 

 Prices subsequent to that date are to be fixed 

 by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs by three 

 year periods. No bid of less than three dollars 

 ($3.00) per M feet for yellow pine and Douglas 

 fir, two dollars ($2.00) per M feet for Mexican 

 white pine and Engelmann spruce and one 

 dollar ($1.00) per M for white pine during the 

 period ending March 31, 1925 will be considered. 

 Each bid must be accompained by a certified 

 check on a solvent national bank, payable to 

 the Superintendent of the Mescalero Indian 

 School in the amount of ten thousand dollars 

 ($10,000.00). The deposit will be returned if the 

 bid is rejected but retained as liquidated dam- 

 ages if the required contract and bond are not 

 executed and presented for approval within sixty 

 days from the acceptance of a bid. The right 

 to reject any and all bids is reserved. Copies 

 of the bid and contract forms and other infor- 

 mation may be obtained from the Superintendent, 

 Indian School, Mescalero, New Mexico. 



CATO SELLS, 

 Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 



Washington, D. C, February 14, 1920. 



FOREST SCHOOL NOTES 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 

 '"PHE opening of the spring semester in 

 January showed a decided increase in 

 enrollment in the various forestry curri- 

 cula and courses. Twenty-two men were 

 enrolled in the curriculum in general for- 

 estry. Ten are taking up the work in for- 

 est utilization and seven have entered the 

 five-year combined course. In the begin- 

 ning course in forestry which is open to 

 all students in the University, Professor 

 Mulford is lecturing to one hundred and 

 forty-eight students. Nine sections have 

 been formed in this course for recitation 

 work, the texts used being the following: 

 Primer of Forestry, Gifford Pinchot; Our 

 National Forests, Richard H. D. Boerker; 

 Forestry and Community Development, S. 

 T. Dana; Farms, Forests and Erosion, S. 

 T. Dana. 



The Friday morning conference course 

 for all members of the forestry faculty and 

 upper division students is proving of great 

 interest and value to all concerned. The 

 topic "Are Foresters Necessary" after 

 much discussion was finally settled very 

 decidedly in the affirmative. The concen- 

 sus of opinion was that the period of great- 

 est promise and usefulness for trained for- 

 esters in the United States is just begin- 

 ning. 



The forestry club held its first meeting 

 of the semester under the leadership of 

 the newly elected officers on the evening 

 of January 27th. Over fifty men were pres- 

 ent, thus establishing a record for attend- 

 ance. A committee reported on confer- 

 ences with the Labor Day Committee of the 

 Associated Students in the matter of the 

 planting of a memorial grove of the 

 Sequoia gigantea on the campus to the 

 California men who fell in the war. The 

 only objection seems to be that it is not 

 a large enough project to keep the whole 

 student body busy, but the committee have 

 hopes that it may be done in connection 

 with some other piece of work. 



Earl M. Blair, '20, was elected vice-presi- 

 dent of the Intercollegiate Association of 

 Forestry Clubs and was California's 

 representative at the meeting of this Asso- 

 ciation held during the last week in 

 February at New Haven. The sum of 

 $175 was raised by active members 

 of the Forestry Club towards defraying the 

 expenses of the delegate to this meeting 

 and an appeal to alumni was made for 

 assistance in completing the necessary 

 sum. The California Club believes heartily 

 in the Intercollegiate Association as a 

 means of better understanding between 

 foresters from the several schools. Dele- 

 gates to former meetings have brought 

 back much of value and we believe the 

 recent meeting will be well worth the ex- 

 pense involved. 



Following the student self-government 

 plan which is in effect throughout the Uni- 

 versity, the men who are going to the for- 

 estry camp in Plumas County next summer, 

 held a meeting last week to arrange details 

 of the camp commissary and other matters 

 in connection with the 13 weeks course in 

 the woods. Tom Oliver was elected camp 

 manager. 



Professor Mulford is planning to take 

 the senior students on a week's field trip 

 to the Del Monte Forest in Monterey 

 County. This is one of the very few forest 

 properties in the United States which is 

 under intensive management so that oppor- 

 tunities for field students in silviculture are 

 particularly good. 



OREGON STATE SCHOOL OF 

 FORESTRY 

 f~* J. BUDELIER, a graduate in Logging 

 Engineering of the Oregon School of 

 Forestry, has been made woods foreman 

 for the Portland Lumber Company at their 

 Coweman camp near Corrals, Washington. 



W. J. O'Neil graduated in Logging En- 

 gineering at the Oregon School of Forestry 

 in 1917. He entered the service before 

 commencement day and remained with the 

 war game until the finish, returning from 

 France with a commission as second lieu- 

 tenant in the artillery. For the past few 

 months he has been employed by the Alsea 

 Lumber Company as assistant engineer. 

 Recently he has been promoted to the posi- 

 tion of chief engineer. 



C. A. Fertig, graduate in Logging Engi- 

 neering with the class of 1917 from the 

 Oregon State School of Forestry, has re- 

 cently identified himself with the Forest 

 Products Sales Company of Astoria, 

 Oregon. 



pAUL C. FUGH, a Chinese student in 

 the School of Forestry of the Oregon 

 Agricultural College, is employed by the 

 Y. M. C. A. in France. His particular 

 business is to look after the interests of 

 Chinese laborers who were brought into 

 France by the Allies during the war. 



A letter from Eastern Siberia states 

 that L. D. Yates, a graduate of the School 

 of Forestry, now first lieutenant in the 

 regular army, is with the A. E. F. in that 

 region. He writes that keeping warm and 

 holding the Bolsheviks quiescent occupies 

 his time completely. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of For- 

 estry of Oregon, H. J. Eberly, a graduate 

 of the School of Forestry of the State Col- 

 lege, and recently a captain in the 

 Twentieth Engineers, has been appointed 

 Deputy State Forester for Oregon. 



At the December meeting of the Forest- 

 ry Club, R. A. Chapler, of the Federal For- 

 est Service, gave an interesting address 



