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SALE OF TIMBER 



KLAMATH INDIAN RESERVATION 



CALIMUS-MARSH UNIT 



SEALED bids in duplicate, marked outside "Bid 

 Calimus-Marsh Unit," and addressed to the 

 Superintendent, Klamath Indian School, Kla- 

 math Agency, Oregon, will be received until two 

 o'clock P. M., Pacific time, Wednesday, October 

 27, 1920, for the purchase of the merchantable 

 timber on the tract in Townships 31, 32, 33 and 34, 

 Ranges 8, 9 and 10, Williamette meridian, Kla- 

 math Indian Reservation. The said unit includes 

 about 87,000 acres with a total stand of approxi- 

 mately four hundred fifty million feet of tim- 

 ber, principally western yellow pine, of which 

 about fourteen million feet is on about 2,500 acres 

 of allotted land, as to which separate approved 

 contracts with the Indian owners may prooably 

 be made. Each bid shall state the price that 

 will be paid per thousand for yellow pine, sugar 

 pine and incense cedar, and for other kinds of 

 timber that will be cut and scaled prior to 

 April 1, 1924. Prices subsequent to that date 

 are to be fixed by the Commissioner of Indian 

 Affairs for three-year periods. No bid will.be 

 accepted for less than $4.00 for yellow pine, 

 sugar pine and incense cedar and $1.60 for other 

 species during the period ending March 31, 1924. 

 Each bid must be accompanied by a certified 

 check on a solvent national bank drawn in favor 

 of the Superintendent of the Klamath Indian 

 School to the amount of $40,000.00. The deposit 

 will be returned to unsuccessful bidder's, but 

 retained as liquidated damages if the successful 

 bidder shall not execute contract and furn : sh 

 satisfactory bond for $50,000.00 within sixty days 

 from the acceptance of his bid. The right ii re- 

 served to waive technical defects and to reject 

 any or all bids. For copies of contract and regu- 

 lations, fuller description of the sale area, and 

 other information, apply to the Superintendent 

 of the Klamath Indian School, Klamath Agency, 

 Oregon. 



Washington, D. C, August 10, 1920. CATO 



SELLS, Commissioner. 



With only one exception, all the for- 

 esters present, except those from Canada, 

 were in favor of establishing and main- 

 taining forests by plantation rather than 

 by natural reproduction. The general rea- 

 son for this was that under natural repro- 

 duction many undesirable and weed species 

 take the place of valuable species or seed 

 in along with them, making their manage- 

 ment difficult and it was felt that planting 

 was cheaper and a better means towards 

 establishing forests. 



This conference was so successful that 

 it has been decided to hold one every three 

 years and the next one will be held in 

 Canada in 1923. 



Messrs Clyde Leavitt, Avila Bedard and 

 Robson Black made a trip through Holland 

 and Belgium to the battlefields of France 

 and some of the French forests after leav- 

 ing the Forestry Conference in London. 



The Society of Northeastern Foresters 

 held their annual meeting in Canada this 

 year, arriving in Montreal on the 27th of 

 July and proceeded by train to Berthier 

 where they were the guests of Mr. G. C. 

 Piche, Chief Forester of Quebec, and after 

 lunch visited the Government nurseries 

 and plantations on the sand dunes along 

 the C. P. R. Railroad. They were much 

 impressed by the good results obtained on 

 the drifting sand, especially in regard to 

 the spruce trees. 



On leaving Berthier, they went to Grand 

 'Mere and from there to Proulx, the head- 

 quarters of the reforestation work of the 

 Laurentide Company. 



Wednesday and Thursday were spent in 

 inspecting the plantations, and Wednes- 

 day night a business meeting was held. On 

 Thursday night there was a general meet- 

 ing in which the eighteen members of the 

 Northeastern Forestry Society were joined 

 by fourteen Canadian foresters and a joint 

 discussion of the demand for the removal 

 of the embargo placed by the Quebec, On- 

 tario and New Brunswick Governments 

 on wood cut from Crown lands for export 

 was thoroughly discussed. 



On Friday morning, the party proceeded 

 to Grand'Mere and inspected the planta- 

 tion of the Laurentide Company and the 

 mills and were the guests of the com- 

 pany at lunch. In the afternoon, fifteen of 

 the* members proceeded to Lake Edward 

 as the guests of the Commission of Con- 

 servation and Doctor Howe, of the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, where the experimen- 

 tal station of the commission, in co-opera- 

 tion with the Laurentide Company, was 

 visited. Here they saw the sample plots 

 and sample cuttings that have been made 

 and were much interested in the results 

 obtained. 



Mr. Austin Cary, who represented the 

 United States Forest Service at the meet- 

 ing, afterwards proceeded to Quebec to 

 discuss the work of the Provincial Gov- 

 ernment with the Chief Forester! He 

 expects after that visit to go to Montreal 

 to talk over the work of the Riordan Paper 



Company with Brigadier-General J. B 

 White. 



Captain H. A. Peck visited the Aviation 

 Station of the Laurentide Company in or- 

 der to inspect the work done in mapping 

 the forests by aerial photography and also 

 took a flight over the limits of the Lauren- 

 tide Company to have our method ex- 

 plained to him. Captain Peck has been 

 investigating the subject of airplanes or 

 seaplanes for use in forestry and logging 

 work for the Riordan Company and he 

 was much impressed with the photographi 

 work done by the Laurentide Company. 



Mr. Roland D. Craig and Doctor Swaine 

 of the Commission of Conservation and 

 the Dominion Entomological Branch, were 

 at the meeting of the Northeastern For- 

 esters and afterwards took a trip in the 

 Laurentide Company's seaplane, n ; loted b 

 Lieutenant Stuart Graham, in order to sej 

 for themselves what kind of work could 

 be done in reconnaissance on a large s-le 

 such as the Commission of Conservation tj 

 doing in a forest survey of Ontario. They 

 were much pleased with the results of their 

 flight and very enthusiastic about the pos- 

 sibilities of the machine. 



FOREST GUARD KILLED WHILE 

 FIGHTING FIRE 



WHILE directing from the air the work 

 of ioo or more fire fighters, battling 

 blazes raging in the Lassen National For- 

 ests at Alturas, California, three men, two 

 non-commissioned army officers and a gov- 

 ernment forester, fell over iooo feet to 

 their death on July io, when their airplane 

 went into a tail spin and plunged to the 

 ground. News of the fate of the trio was 

 received by officers of Mather field, a gov- 

 ernment flying field in California. The vic- 

 tims were: 



Sergeant Wayman T. Haney. 



Corporal Salcida. 



Forest Guard Benjamin H. Robie. 



Since July 4 flames have been sweeping 

 the Lassen timber district. Aviators and 

 foresters of the United States forest patrol 

 service have been directing the work of 

 volunteer fire fighters, circling over the 

 blazing area in planes. When the fire ap- 

 peared to be fairly under control, flames 

 burst out anew in several places and late 

 on the night of the 10th, the volunteers 

 busily attempting to stem the fire's progress, 

 were startled to see the plane suddenly 

 go into a tail spin and shoot downward. 



The machine landed at -a spot where 

 the flames were burning fiercely and if 

 the occupants were not killed outright they 

 undoubtedly were burned to death. 



BOUQUET 

 "You are engaged in a magnificent work, 

 the saving of beautiful trees and beautiful 

 landscapes, as well as a work which is 

 utterly vital to the prosperity of our coun- 

 try, and I wish you and the American For- 

 estry Association the greatest success in 

 carrying on that work." 



Charles Nevers Hoi.mf.s. 



