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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



SALE OF TIMBER 



QUINAIELT INDIAN RESERVATION 



MOCLIPS UNIT 



SEALED bids in duplicate, marked outside 

 "Bid, Moclips Unit," and addressed to the 

 Superintendent, Taholah Indian School. 

 Taholah, Washington, will be received until 

 twelve o'clock noon, Pacific time, Tuesday, June 

 I, 1920, for the purchase of timber on the tract in 

 Townships 20 and 21 north, Ranges 11 and 12 west, 

 Williamette Meridian, in Quinaielt Indian Reser 

 vation. The said unit includes about 3.560 acres, 

 with a total stand of about 125,000.000 feet, of 

 which about 70,000,000 lies in about 1880 acres of 

 allotted land, as to which separate approved con- 

 tracts with the Indian owners may probably be 

 made. The sale embraces approximately 70,000,000 

 feet of cedar, 19,000,000 feet of Douglas fir, 14,000,- 

 000 feet of spruce, 20,000,000 feet of hemlock, 1,000.- 

 000 feet of white pine, 878,000 linear feet of cedar 

 poles, and an unestimated amount of Douglas fir 

 piles. 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. No bid will be considered for the first 

 period of less than the following rates per thou- 

 sand feet: Three dollars fifty cents ($3.50) for 

 live and dead cedar; three Hollars ($3.00) for live 

 and dead Douglas fir and spruce; two dollars 

 ($2.00) for white pine; eighty cents ($.80)) for 

 hemlock, white fir and other species; per linear 

 foot for cedar poles 45 feet and over in length 

 with not greater than a nine-inch top diameter, 

 one and three-fourths cents (.0175) ; for cedar poles 

 45 feet and under in length, one and one-fourth 

 cents (.0125); for cedar poles 20 feet and under in 

 length with not greater than a six-inch top 

 diameter, three-fourths cent (.0075) ; and for Doug- 

 las fir piles, with not greater than a sixteenth- 

 inch butt diameter, one cent (.01) per linear foot. 

 Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check 

 of $10,000. 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 information may 

 be obtained from the Superintendent, Indian 

 School, Taholah, Washington. Prices subsequent 

 to April 1, 1924, will be fixed by the Commissioner 

 of Indian Affairs by three-year periods. 



Washington, D. C, March 17, 1920. CATO 

 SELLS, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 



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. 



FORESTER SAVING CZECHO- 

 SLOVAKS 



'"PHAT a former District Forester of the 

 Arizona-New Mexico district has di- 

 rected the work of saving half a million 

 children from starvation is the word 

 brought from Czehco-Slovakia in a letter 

 from the Czech Government requesting 

 from the Forest Service an extension of 

 leave for Capt. Arthur C. Ringland, for- 

 merly District Forester of the Southwest- 

 ern District, with headquarters at Al- 

 buquerque. The letter is addressed to the 

 Director of the European Children's Fund 

 of the American Relief Administration, and 

 is signed by Dr. Alice Masaryk, daughter 

 of the President of Czecho-Slovakia, and 

 by two high ministers of the Government. 

 The letter is in part as follows : 



"The American nation has saved about 

 half a million Czecho-Slovakian children 

 from starvation in the most critical time 

 before the harvest of 1919. The national 

 organization of the "Cezkoslovenska Pece 

 o dite," with the President of the Republic 

 as head and all Ministers of the Cabinet 

 as members of the National Committee, is 

 distributing the American food to the re- 

 motest districts and places of our country. 

 The soul of this organization, unique in 

 the history of our nation, is Mr. Arthur C. 

 Ringland, one of those excellent workers 

 whom you sent to Europe to accomplish 

 your wonderful plan to help small nations 

 and enable them to face the consequences 

 of war." 



FOREST FIRES IN CALIFORNIA 



'"PHE Forest Service has been able in 

 California, through comprehensive 

 plans, complete organization and execution, 

 and co-operation from timber owners and 

 the public, to reduce in the past 12 years 

 the annual fire destruction of merchant- 

 able timber in the National Forests in 

 that state by 81 per cent or some 94 

 million feet. That fires started by light- 

 ning were of common occurrence in the pine 

 forests of northern California as early as 

 1530 is a fact established, says the Dis- 

 trict Forester at San Francisco, by the 

 examination of old fire scars on still liv- 

 ing trees. Naturally none of the trees 

 examined had survived every one of the 

 many fires recorded in the past two or 

 three hundred years but several bore scars 

 from which were traced the occurrence of 

 more than 20 conflagrations each one 

 separated by a number of years. One tree, 

 the oldest examined in Plumas County, 

 has very evidently survived 35 separate 

 and distinct fires. Because it is evident 

 that these fires were not holocausts be- 

 cause much of the area over which they 

 burned still bears merchantable timber, 

 some have questioned the need of exten- 

 sive fire protection in California forests 

 or of particular attention to the light 

 ground fire. It is estimated, however, 

 that ground fires in California actually de- 

 stroy on the average, 1183 feet of timber 

 per acre or $4.45 in value. 



TWO-THIRDS OF EACH TREE 

 WASTED 



* T present two-thirds of the average 

 ^*- tree is wasted before the wood is put 

 to use," said C. P. Winslow, Director of the 

 United States Forest Products Laboratory, 

 in an address at a recent meeting of the 

 Madison Section of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Foresters. "Without doubt, a consid- 

 erable part of this waste can be used," he 

 added, "and it is the function of forest 

 products research to develop every possible 

 new use, within the limits of the financial 

 resources available for such work. Such 

 better utilization also has a vital relation 

 to the practice of forestry on private lands, 

 by making possible a greater net return per 

 acre, thus making continuous production 

 of private forests more financially attractive 

 than at present." Among the new uses of 

 wood now being developed which may have 

 profound effect upon future forest produc- 

 tion, Mr. Winslow mentioned the use of 

 "built-up" wood, in which small pieces of 

 wood are guled together into laminated 

 parts of various shapes and sizes, which 

 can be made just as strong and useful as 

 an equal amount of solid wood. The in- 

 creasing uses of laminated wood make it 

 reasonable to assume that many of the for- 

 ests of the future can be profitably cut at 

 an earlier age than at present with much 

 closer utilization of the trees grown, thus 

 naturally increasing the financial return 

 per acre. The greater utilization of wood 

 waste and wood in the smaller sizes for 

 chemical products and paper pulp was also 

 given as a fertile field for research. 



FORESTERS TEST WIRELESS 

 PHONES 



PRELIMINARY tests of the wireless 

 telephone by officers of the Forest 

 Service, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, in the vicinity of Portland, 

 Oregon, lead to the belief that this inven- 

 tion can be utilized extensively in the 

 National Forests, especially in fire-preven- 

 tion work. While it is recognized that 

 there are conditions limiting wireless tele- 

 phone transmission, the results so far are 

 pronounced very satisfactory. 



One of the sets used in the tests was 

 installed on Mount Hood, Oregon, where 

 the problem of providing a satisfactory 

 support for the antennae was a difficult 

 one, since a mast was needed which would 

 be strong enough to resist the 70 or 80 

 mile gales that sweep the mountains. At 

 the same time the mast had to be light 

 enough for the men to be able to raise and 

 lower it before and after sleet storms. A 

 50-foot bamboo pole was finally selected 

 as the support. 



In the telephone conversations between 

 the sets, some of which were 10 miles 

 apart, the voice carried very clearly and 

 was about as loud as over a wire line 

 Telegraph signals from many stations 

 scattered over the continent were picked 

 up. On Mount Hood they often w 

 loud as to be audible in any part : 

 cabin. 



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