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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



SALE OF TIMBER 



MESCALERO INDIAN RESERVATION 



NOGAL UNIT 



SI -A I.ED bids in duplicate, marked outside 

 "Bid Nogal Timber Unit" and addressed to 

 Superintendent Meacalero Indian School, 

 Meacalero, New Mexico, will be receired until 

 twelve o'clock noon, Mountain Time, Tuesday, 

 July 20, 1920, for the purchase of timber on a 

 tract comprising the Nogal drainage area on the 

 southwestern portion of the Meacalero Indian 

 Reservation and situatrd within Townships 13 and 

 M South, Range 12 E., New Mexico Meridian. 

 The said unit comprises about 0,000 acres with an 

 estimated stand of over 40,000,000 feet, chieBy 

 Douglas fir and western yellow pine. Each bid 

 must state the price per thousand feet, Scribner 

 Decimal scale, that will be paid for timber cut 

 and scaled prior to April, 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. for Mexican white pine and Engelmann 

 spruce and one dollar ($1 00) per M. for white 

 fir during the period ending March 31, 1925, will 

 be considered. Each bid must be accompanied by 

 a certified check on a solvent national bank, 

 payable to the said Superintendent in the amount 

 of six thousand dollars ($6,000). The deposit will 

 be returned if a bid is rejected, but retained as 

 liquidated damages, if the required contract and 

 bond for $15,000,000 are not executed and pre- 

 sented 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, 

 Mcscalero, New Mexico. 

 Washington, D. C, May 10, 1920. 



CATO SELLS, 

 Commissioner. 



CAMP QUAN-TA-BA-C00K 



A Summer Camp for Boy* 



On Lake Quart- ta-ba- Cook 



In the Maine Woods 

 Near Belfast, Maine 



Write for Booklet 



Season, July-August 



Ages 8- 1 6 years 



H. PERCY HERMANSEN 



Tower Hill School, Wilmington, Del 



ARE YOU INTERESTED IN PURCHASING 

 A COUNTRY PLACE? 



I have a very desirable one located at 

 Hoho-kus, IN THE RAMAPO HILLS, Bergen 

 County, Northern New Jersey, only fifty min- 

 utes from Broadway. Right on the Main State 

 Road leading to Tuxedo, amid picturesque 

 surroundings and desirable neighbors. A 

 quaint, old-fashioned, 14-room house, splendid 

 vineyard, fruit and shrubbery. Lovely old 

 shade trees it would be hard to find a more 

 beautifully wooded place. 



House contains bath, town water, electric 

 light and furnace. Nearly five acres of land 

 and a big barn-garage, with sleeping quarters. 

 A small amount will put whole place in A 1 

 condition. Offered for quick sale a bargain 

 at $20,000. 



High location desirable for either summer 

 or all-year home. Good churches, schools, etc. 

 Fine automobile road all the way to the city 

 just the place for anyone desiring to motor to 

 business daily. Only seven minutes to station 

 and five minutes to the North Jersey trolley. 

 Immediate Possession. 



Address Box 1000, care of AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY MAGAZINE, Washington, D. C. 



MASSACHUSETTS 

 r PHE Committee on Agriculture, of 

 Massachusetts, in executive session re- 

 cently voted to report a bill to permit the 

 county commissioners to raise such sums 

 as they may judge expedient in their several 

 counties for the purpose of giving aid to 

 their county farm bureaus. 



The committee also voted to report the 

 bill on the initiative petition that the State 

 Forest Commission be authorized to buy 

 20,000 acres in the State for the purpose of 

 producing timber and protecting the water 

 supply. There goes with this, as a part of 

 the subject, a favorable report on the peti- 

 tion of George H. Graham, former member 

 of the old board of fisheries and game, for 

 authorization of the State Forest Commis- 

 sion to buy 250,000 acres. The Graham bill 

 has five sections, three of which are re- 

 ported. It provides for the purchase within 

 10 years, at not more than the present 

 authorized price, or such price as the 

 Legislature may fix, the State Commission 

 to be authorized to open the whole or any 

 portion of the lands to public fishing and 

 shooting. 



NEW JERSEY 

 A SURVEY of the progress of forestry 

 in New Jersey, conducted by the State 

 Forester during the past winter to deter- 

 mine the extent that woodland owners have 

 actively engaged in forestry practice, has 

 shown most gratifying results. Since the 

 State of New Jersey owns less than one 

 per cent of the forests within her borders, 

 it has been the policy of the State Forester 

 to support and encourage the interest of 

 private owners in the practice of forestry, 

 and in this way serve the public interest. 

 Many owners who have taken advantage of 

 this aid, have found forest planting and 

 woodland management both practicable and 

 profitable. 



The replies received to questionnaires 

 sent to all persons who have indicated an 

 interest in forestry in the past, show that 

 114 active co-operators, including 11 

 municipalities and public institutions, have 

 practiced intensive forestry methods, in- 

 cluding fire protection, improvement cutting, 

 close utilization of products, etc. on ap- 

 proximately 10,000 acres of woodland, while 

 40,000 acres more under the same owner- 

 ship have been protected and improved to 

 some extent, and definite plans have been 

 made for more intensive management. The 

 same co-operators, together with 41 others 

 who are at present inactive, are planning 

 to extend forestry management to more 

 than 12,000 acres of woodland that have 

 received no attention up to this time. 



Progress has also been made in forest 

 planting. While natural reproduction is 

 usually adequate and satisfactory in many 

 parts of the State, it is often necessary to 

 re-establish forest growth by planting on 

 land unwisely cleared and unfit for agri- 

 culture, or where all reproduction has been 

 destroyed by fire. More than 1G0U acres 

 have been reproduced by persons co- 

 operating with the State Forester, and 

 nearly 300 acres more will be planted with- 

 in a short time. 



Believing that number of State Forests 

 are valuable as a public demonstration of 

 the methods and results of forestry prac- 

 tice, the State has acquired six State 

 Forests with a total area of 16,591 acres of 

 woodland, managed by the State Forester. 

 Upon these lands 50 acres of forest planta- 

 tions have been made, for the purpose of 

 experiment and demonstration. 



Altogether there are 80,000 acres within 

 the State, approximately 4 per cent of the 

 State's total woodland area, upon which 

 forestry practice is now established or 

 definitely planned for in the immediate 

 future. The owners have been won over to 

 the realization of the importance and prac- 

 ticability of forestry methods and are 

 pledged to its practice. 



The progress indicated in this survey is 

 encouraging when it is realized that this 

 work was commenced less than 15 years 

 ago, but the accomplishment seems insig- 

 nificant ' when we consider what yet re- 

 mains to be done. New Jersey has nearly 

 2,000,000 acres of woodland, most of which 

 is in a run-down condition because of re- 

 peated forest fires, wasteful logging, neglect 

 of owners and abuse by the public. Nearly 

 three-quarters of this area is unfit for any 

 profitable use other than growing timber. 

 New Jersey's problem is to return this vast 

 area of semi-waste land to productiveness, 

 and this can be done only by preventing and 

 controlling forest fires and by applying 

 practicable forestry management to tht 

 woodlands. When protection and manage- 

 ment become established, the value of New 

 Jersey's woodlands will be increased from 

 less than $6,000,000 to over $200,000,000. 

 Instead of furnishing less than one-tenth of 

 the lumber used within the State, as at 

 present, New Jersey's woodlands are capa- 

 ble of supplying a very great portion of the 

 lumber and wood consumed within her 

 borders. It is needless to point out the 

 benefits to land owners, producers and con- 

 sumers that will result. 



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