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SALE OF TIMBER, KLAMATH INDIAN 

 RESERVATION 

 CHILOQUIN UNIT 



SEALED bids in duplicate, marked outside 

 "Bid, Chiloquin Timber Unit" and addressed 

 to Superintendent, Klamath Indian School, 

 Klamath Agency, Oregon, will be received until 

 twelve o'clock noon, Pacific Time, Thursday. 

 April 15, 1920, for the purchase of timber on a 

 tract, in townmanship 35 and 36 south, ranges 

 7 and 8 east of Willamette Meridian in Klamath 

 Indian Reservation, lying south of the Sprague 

 River. The said unit includes about 10,000 

 acres of unallotted land with an estimated stand 

 of one hundred sixty million feet as to which 

 contract will be made with the Superintendent 

 and about three thousand acres of allotted lands 

 with an estimated stand of forty million feet as 

 to which separate approved contracts with the 

 Indian owners may probably be made. More 

 than ninety per cent, of the timber within 

 the unit is western yellow pine and the re- 

 mainder is sugar pine, incense cedar, and red 

 and white fir. 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, 1924. Prices subsequent 

 to that date are to be fixed by the Commis- 

 sioner of Indian affairs by three year periods. 

 No bid of less than three dollars and fifty cents 

 ($3.50) per M. feet for yellow pine, sugar pine 

 and incense cedar, and one dollar and fifty 

 cents ($1.50) for other species during the period 

 ending March 31, 1924 will be considered. 

 Each bid must be accompanied by a certified 

 check on a solvent national bank, payable to 

 the Superintendent of the Klamath Indian 

 School, in the amount of Twenty Thousand 

 Dollars ($20,000.00). The deposit will be re- 

 turned if the bid is rejected but retained as 

 liquidated damages if the required contract and 

 bond are not executed and presented for ap- 

 proval 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 information may be obtained from 

 the superintendent, Indian School, Klamath 

 Agency, Oregon. 



Washington, D. C, January 21, 1920. CATO 

 SELLS, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 



ALASKAN PULPWOOD FORESTS 

 'T'HE pulpwood forests of Alaska, which 

 are chiefly spruce and hemlock, would 

 possibly produce under careful management 

 a continuous yield of 2,000,000 cords per 

 annum or about one-third of the present 

 consumption of pulpwood and products 

 manufactured from pulpwood in the United 

 States, according to a recent circular of 

 the Newsprint Service Bureau. 



The National Forests of Alaska have a 

 coast line of 12,000 miles and are estimated 

 to contain 77,000,000,000 board feet of 

 standing timber. Within the last ten years 

 the Forest Service has sold 420,000,000 feet 

 of timber in the Alaskan forests, from 

 which have been produced lumber, box 

 shooks, railroad ties, piling, etc., but no 

 pulpwood. With its limited funds for 

 timber surveys, the Forest Service has been 

 handicapped in exploring the timber re- 

 sources of the territory but has exerted 

 every effort to develop the use of these 

 resources. Various tentative applications 

 for developing pulpwood enterprises in 

 Alaska have been since 1910 but these have 

 been for the most part dropped because the 

 applicants found they could not finance the 

 enterprises. The pulpwood offered has 

 been priced at low rates, conforming to the 

 general sale of stumpage prices in Alaska, 

 representing the very low timber values 

 obtaining in an inaccessible and unde- 

 veloped region. The Service has felt it 

 necessary in the public interest to provide 

 in its contracts for a reconsideration of 

 these stumpage values at intervals of five 

 years, beginning when actual cutting op- 

 erations commence, with an opportunity to 

 increase the stumpage prices if an expert 

 appraisal showed the pulpwood to have 

 actually a higher current value. 



The sale terms offered by the Forest 

 Service have not delayed the development 

 of this industry but the obstacles have been 

 the enormous transportation difficulties, in- 

 volving prohibitory freight rates, the lack 

 of labor and of towns, wharves and all 

 supply facilities, and the very large in- 

 vestment required for installation of paper 

 and pulp plants. 



REPLANTING INVESTIGATION 



rpHE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUN- 

 CIL has received a gift from the South 

 ern Pine Association of $10,000 to pay for 

 the incidental expenses of a co-ordinated 

 scientific study by a number of investigators 

 of the re-growth of trees on cut-over forest 

 lands with the aim of determining the best 

 forestry methods for obtaining the highest 

 productivity. Although some of these cut- 

 over lands can perhaps be most advanta- 

 geously used for agricultural purposes there 

 is a large acreage of them which will yield 

 better returns if devoted to reforestation. 

 Despite the large amount of forest study 

 that is being conducted under Government 

 and State auspices, there is much need for 

 additional investigation. This is well rec- 

 ognized by lumber men and is especially in- 



dicated by the action of the recent meeting 

 of the Southern Forestry Congress at New 

 Orleans in formally endorsing the scientific 

 projects of the National Research Council 

 in regard to forestry. The gift from the 

 Southern Pine Association is made as a re- 

 sult of this action. The investigation will 

 be conducted under the advice of the Re- 

 search Council's special committee on for- 

 estry and will not duplicate any present gov- 

 ernment or other undertakings along similar 

 lines. 



PULPWOOD IN QUEBEC 



'T'HAT the Province of Quebec has more 

 than one-half of the entire pulpwood 

 supply of Canada and the largest unit of 

 forest wealth in the world is the claim of 

 the Prime Minister of the Province, ac- 

 cording to the United States Consul Gen- 

 eral at Ottawa. The Prime Minister fur- 

 ther stated in the address quoted, made to 

 the members of the Canadian Pulp and 

 Paper Association, that there had now 

 been cut about 1,000,000,000 feet of timber, 

 and he was informed that, with proper 

 management, there might be cut four or 

 five times more than that without endan- 

 gering the future supply. He emphasized 

 the importance of keeping the raw mate- 

 rial for the use of the Canadian pulp and 

 paper plants, and indicated that this policy 

 would not be relaxed, suggesting that the 

 Provincial Government might act further 

 and that the time might come when they 

 would have to limit the cut of the Quebec 

 forests for the exclusive use of Quebec 

 mills. Quebec has been an important 

 source of supply to the paper mills of the 

 United States. 



TO REFOREST BURNED AREAS 

 Tj 1 IGHT million trees are sprouted at the 

 Savanac nursery, Washington, every 

 year to reforest the burned areas in the 

 United States forest district No. 1, which 

 takes in parts of Montana, Idaho and 

 Washington, according to L. A. Fairchild, 

 government tree-planter. "There are two 

 tree-planting seasons in the year," said Mr. 

 Fairchild. "The first begins April 1 and 

 lasts until June 15 and the fall season is 

 from September 15 to November 1. There 

 are four tree-planting camps in this dis- 

 trict and two crews of 16 men in each 

 camp. A good camp with favorable con- 

 ditions will plant 1,000,000 trees during 

 the three months of work and an expert 

 planter will put in 800 trees every day. 

 "The majority of the burned areas will 

 reforest themselves. We are concerned 

 with the other sections. Crews are sent 

 out early in the year to map out these 

 sections which show no signs of self- 

 reforesting." Mr. Fairchild said that the 

 Savanac nursery at Haugan, Montana, is 

 the largest in the United States and that 

 D. C. Olson, superintendent, is one of the 

 best known tree experts in the country. 



