632 



MMNHRSE 



Forest Fire Pumping 

 Outfit 



Portable, Lightweight Direct- Con- 

 nected Gasoline Engines and Pumps 

 For Fire Fighting 



T1SED by the Canadian Government 

 1 and the Canadian Pacific Railway. 

 Will throw water to a height of 172 

 feet. Shipment complete, ready to run. 

 Can be quickly moved to any endangered 

 section by auto, pack horses or boat. 

 Write for Bulletin H-7013. 



CONTRACTORS' EQUIPMENT DEPT. 



FAlKBANKS.MORSESCO. 



30 CHURCH ST. - NEW YORK CITY 



MLTIMOK OFFICE BOSTON OFFICE 



US East Lombard S 245 Stale Street 



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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 67,000 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 probably 

 be made. Each bid shall state the price that 

 will be paid per thousand for yellow pine, sugar 

 pine ana incense cedar, and for other kinds of 

 timber that will be cut and sealed prior to 

 April 1, 1024. 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 bidders, but 

 retained as liquidated damages if the successful 

 bidder shall not execute contract and furnish 

 satisfactory bond for $50.000 00 within sixty days 

 from the acceptance of his bid. The right is 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. G. August 10, 1920. CATO 

 SELLS, Commissioner. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



PENNSYLVANIA'S STATE FOREST- 

 ER'S CONFERENCE 

 ONE of the important features of the 

 reorganization of the Pennsylvania 

 Department of Forestry under the leader- 

 ship of Gifford Pinchot was a conference 

 at Mont Alto from July 23 to August 6 

 for all foresters in the employ of the 

 State. The foresters were called together 

 to discuss the various phases of forest 

 activity within the State, particularly those 

 relating to the administration and protec- 

 tion of State forest land, and to formulate 

 policies and procedure for the conduct of 

 the Department's work. The conclusions 

 of the conference will be incorporated in 

 a manual of regulations and instructions 

 for the guidance of State forest officers. 

 In addition to the State foresters there 

 were present, during the course of the con- 

 ference, representatives of other State de- 

 partments, the State Forest Commission, 

 the United States Forest Service, and the 

 forestry staff of Pennsylvania State Col- 

 lege. 



The spirit of the conference was that 

 the Pennsylvania forest problem is a large 

 one and can be met adequately only by 

 earnest and self-sacrificing effort. One of 

 the earliest moves of the new Commissioner 

 had been to secure more adequate compen- 

 sation for the State forest personnel. In 

 order to do so with the limited funds 

 available the separation of a number of 

 foresters from the service pending more 

 liberal appropriations had been decided up- 

 on in a general conference with the for- 

 esters, who suggested this course as the 

 wise one to take for the good of the ser- 

 vice. The reduction in personnel neces- 

 sarily resulted in increasing the area of 

 State forest land under the administration 

 and protection of each forester from ap- 

 proximately 25,000 acres to from 50,000 to 

 70,000 acres. 



The Mont Alto conference also decided 

 upon the redistricting of the State into 

 twenty-five units, termed districts, each to 

 be in charge of a forester. The district 

 areas vary from 45,000 to 600,000 acres, 

 depending upon the quantity of State forest 

 land included and the intensity of the 

 problems presented. Under the plan all 

 timberlands within the State are covered by 

 the protective system of the Department. 



The Department's policy, with which the 

 Governor is in full sympathy, is to ac- 

 quire ultimately six million acres of tim- 

 berland within the State or about one- 

 half of the State's potential timberlands. 

 It is striving also for more liberal appro- 

 priations, particularly for fire protection, 

 in order to more effectively meet its re- 

 sponsibilty for protecting the timberlands 

 of the State. Its program is said to be 

 meeting with increased support on the part 

 of timberland owners and citizens of the 

 State in general, who are more and more 

 appreciating the disastrous results which 

 attend forest fires and the need for intel- 

 ligent management of timberlands. 



TIMBER IN NEW ENGLAND 



npHE output of lumber in the next decade 

 * in Maine, Vermont and New Hamp- 

 shire will be greatly reduced because of the 

 heavy inroads on the timber made by the 

 pulp and paper industry. The paper manu- 

 facturers are making an effort to get all 

 available pulp stock before it is necessary 

 to abandon their plants. The result is 

 that much of the timber that would other- 

 wise be cut into lumber has been made 

 into wood pulp. If it were not for the 

 pulp and paper interests, the New Eng- 

 land States, says a recent investigator of 

 timber conditions, could keep up their pres- 

 ent rate of lumber production for a long 

 period. It is estimated that the production 

 in Maine will shrink a quarter of a billion 

 feet in the next ten years although it had 

 been said that Maine would hold her own 

 from now on. The same situation prevails 

 in a proportionate degree in Vermont and 

 New Hampshire. 



The Forest Service has been investigating 

 production, timber stand, etc., in these New 

 England States this spring in preparation 

 for the report required by the Senate un- 

 der the Capper Resolution. 



MIGRATORY BIRDS ON THE 

 INCREASE 



A MARKED increase in migratory wild 

 fowl throughout the United States, in- 

 stead of the alarming decrease which led 

 to steps for their protection, is noted in 

 reports received by the Biological Survey, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, 

 from all parts of the country during the 

 past few months. The change is attributed 

 to the good effects of the migratory-bird 

 treaty. 



Friends of the migratory birds believe 

 that the first important step for the per- 

 petuation of the birds has been made, but 

 that another one equally vital remains to 

 be taken. This consists of the conserva- 

 tion and perpetuation of a sufficient num- 

 ber of small inland lakes, as well as island 

 and coastal swamps and marsh areas, to 

 provide the birds places for feeding and 

 resting and rearing their young. 



It is absolutely necessary, they point out, 

 that the birds during migration and in 

 winter have proper places in which to live. 

 It is a mistaken idea, they say, that the 

 draniage of almost any area is a benefit to 

 the community. Under proper conditions, 

 "water farming" of many lakes and ponds 

 and of swamp and marsh areas will yield a 

 distinctly larger return than would the same 

 area if drained and used for agriculture. 

 They summarize the productiveness of such 

 farms as follows: 



Food and game fishes. 



Wild fowl to be shot for sport and 

 food. Furs from such fur bearers as the 

 muskrats, skunks, and raccoons which fre- 

 quent their borders. 



A natural ice supply. 



