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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



147,000,000 

 Feet 





NATIONAL 

 FOREST 

 TIMBER 



For Sale 



Location and Amount All the mer- 

 chantable dead timber standing or 

 down and all the live timber 

 marked or designated for cutting 

 on the Old Miners Ditch Logging 

 Unit embracing about 4,680 acres 

 in Townships 4 and 5 N., R. 18 E., 

 and Township 4 N., R. 17 E., M. D. 

 M., Middle Fork of Stanislaus 

 River Watershed, Stanislaus Na- 

 tional Forest, California, estimated 

 to be 52,000,000 feet b. m. of western 

 yellow pine, 43,900,000 feet b. m. of 

 sugar pine, 24,700,000 feet b. m. of 

 white fir, 26,000,000 feet b. m of in- 

 cense cedar and 600,000 feet b. m. 

 of Douglas fir, a total of 147,200,- 

 000 feet b. m. sawtimber, more or 

 less. 



Stumpage Prices Lowest rates con- 

 sidered, $4.25 per M feet for west- 

 ern yellow pine, $5.50 per M feet 

 for sugar pine, $1.50 per M feet 

 for white fir and incense cedar, 

 $2.00 per M feet for Douglas fir, 

 and for material unmerchantable 

 under the terms of the contract, 

 to be removed at the option of the 

 purchaser, for which payment is 

 required by the Forest Service, 

 $0.50 per M feet. 



Deposit $10,000.00 must be deposited 

 with each bid to be applied to the 

 purchase price, refunded or re- 

 tained in part as liquidated dam- 

 ages, according to conditions of 

 sale. 



Final Date for Bids Sealed bids will 

 be received by the District For- 

 ester, San Francisco, California, 

 up to and including October 19, 

 1920. The right to reject any and 

 all bids is reserved. Before bids 

 are submitted full information con- 

 cerning the character of the tim- 

 ber, conditions of sale, deposits, 

 and the submission of bids should 

 be obtained from the District For- 

 ester, San Francisco, California, 

 or the Forest Supervisor, Sonora, 

 California. 



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DOMESTIC EXPORT 



(Continued from page 624) 

 and determined the purposes for which 

 water may be appropriated. 



Great waste of valuable waters has al- 

 ways taken place in Texas during the 

 periods of periodical floods of the various 

 rivers. In some parts of the State these 

 floods take place as often as two or three 

 times during the same year, while in others 

 the overflows come only every two or thFee 

 years. Conservation of this flood flow is 

 one of the expressed duties of the Board of 

 Water Engineers. The policy in the past 

 has been to encourage the people along such 

 flooding rivers to build dams and reservoirs 

 so that the water may be impounded and 

 distributed for use at the time that it is 

 most needed by the farmers. Another step 

 in this conservation was taken when the 

 plans were completed with the United 

 States Geological Survey for co-operative 

 investigation of the water resources of the 

 State which led to a system of stream 

 measurement by gage stations, forty-two of 

 which were in operation by August 31, 10,18. 



Big irrigation projects are always en- 

 couraged by the Board of Water Engineers. 

 Any person or company by depositing a 

 fee of $250 may obtain the priority right 

 to his irrigation project if he can satisfy 

 the Board of Water Engineers that ade- 

 quate engineering force is available. Dur- 

 ing the past three years presentments have 

 been filed with the board for projects on 

 the Frio River in Uvalde County, on the 

 Pecos River in Reeves County, and on the 

 Colorado River in Matagorda and the ad- 

 joining counties. 



One of the big irrigation projects that 

 has been completed within recent years is 

 the Medina River dam system. This is 

 one of the greatest pieces of engineering 

 work in the State. The water is impound- 

 ed into lakes or reservoirs by three dams. 

 The main dam is 128 feet wide, 1,580 feet 

 long, and 180 feet high from crest to the 

 bottom of the foundations. It is equipped 

 with machinery and appliances for letting 

 the water gradually into the secondary 

 reservoir through discharge pipes five feet 

 in diameter. The lake formed is 152 feet 

 deep at the dam, 16 miles long, 1 and Yi 

 miles wide, and has a shore surface of 

 93 miles. The distribution of the water 

 takes place through canals and laterals, 

 and the primary purpose of the entire work 

 is irrigation. 



Probably the largest irrigation project be- 

 fore the State today is the Big Wichita 

 River irrigation project which is to be 

 constructed in north Texas, where the 

 land to be irrigated is 1000 feet above the 

 sea level. The proponents of the project 

 plan to build a large storage reservoir by 

 constructing a dam across the Big Wichita 

 River about fifty miles above Wichita 

 Falls. A diversion dam is to be built to 

 throw the water into canals on each side 

 of the river. The principal work then will 

 be to construct the storage dam, the diver- 

 sion dam, and the distributing canals. Th 



