1300 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



125 MILLION FEET 



NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER 

 FOR SALE 



Location and Amount. — All the mer- 

 chantable dead timber standing 

 and down, and all the live timber 

 marked or designated for cutting 

 on an area of about 6,000 acres of 

 Government land in T. 44 N., R. 

 4 E. ; T. 44 N., R. 5 E., and T. 43 

 N., R. 5 E., within the watershed 

 of Fishhook Creek, St. Joe Na- 

 tional Forest, Idaho, estimated to 

 be 33,000 M. B. M. green white 

 pine; 9,000 M. B. M. dead white 

 pine; 30,000 M. B. M. Engelmann 

 spruce; 13,000 M. B. M. cedar; 

 12,000 M. B. M. white fir and hem- 

 lock; 10,000 M. B. M. larch and 

 Douglas fir; 5,000 M. B. M lodge- 

 pole pine, balsam fir and yellow 

 pine saw timber, 60,000 cedar poles, 

 more or less ; and an unestimated 

 amount of cedar posts, piling and 

 shingle bolts. About 4,000 acres of 

 privately owned timber in the 

 same watershed is also available 

 for purchase from the Northern 

 Pacific Railway Company. 



Stumpage Prices. — Lowest bid con- 

 sidered $2.50 per M for green 

 white pine; $1.00 per M for spruce 

 and yellow pine; 50 cents per M 

 for all other species and dead 

 white pine; and special rates for 

 cedar products of various dimen- 

 sions. 



Prices will be readjusted at the 

 end of the third, sixth, ninth and 

 twelfth years. 



Period for Removal. — A period of 

 fifteen years will be allowed for 

 the removal of the timber, with two 

 additional years within which to 

 construct initial improvements. 



Deposit.— With bid, $10,000.00 to ap- 

 ply on purchase price if bid is ac- 

 cepted, or refunded if rejected. 

 Ten per cent may be retained as 

 forfeit if the contract and bond 

 are not executed within the re- 

 quired time. 



Final Date for Bids.— Sealed bids 

 will be received by the District 

 Forester, Missoula, Montana, up 

 to and including September 23, 

 1919. The right to reject any and 

 all bids is reserved. Before bids 

 are submitted, full information 

 concerning the character of the 

 timber, conditions of sale, deposits 

 and the submission of bids should 

 be obtained from the District 

 Forester, Missoula, Montana, or 

 the Forest Supervisor, St. Maries, 

 Idaho. ' 



ment. Plot No. 2 to serve as a check or 

 control, was not thinned. 



Seven years later, in June, 1919, neither 

 tract having had any attention except pro- 

 tection from fire, the plots were again 

 measured and the following results were 

 noted: Plot No. 1 (thinned plot) had 380 

 living trees, the volume of which was 

 10.03 cords per acre, or an increase of 5.57 

 cords, not counting the one cord removed 

 by thinning. Plot No. 2 contained 558 

 living trees, with a total volume of 8.63 

 cords, or an increase of less than a cord 

 (.91 cords) for seven years' growth. In 

 other words the thinned plot almost doubled 

 its wood volume in seven years, while the 

 adjoining unthinned plot in the same time 

 increased less than nine per cent. For- 

 estry pays ! The State Forester is ready 

 to help anyone interested in such a project. 



KENTUCKY 



E. BARTON, Commissioner of Geology 

 and Forestry, announces at this time 

 that the Kentenia-Catron Corporation will 

 transfer to the State of Kentucky for use as 

 a State Forest Reservation approximately 

 3,400 acres of land on Pine Mountain in 

 Harlan County. The gift of this land to 

 the State is in fee simple, subject only to 

 existing contracts for the removal of cer- 

 tain timber on the area. The gift is made 

 through Mr. Charles H. Davis, the Presi- 

 dent of the Company, and Mr. W. W. Duf- 

 field, Agent of the Company for Kentucky. 

 The gift of this land to the State for pur- 

 poses of a state forest is the biggest 

 stimulus to the management of timber 

 tracts under effective forestry principles 

 that the movement in the State to this end 

 has yet seen. The Kentenia-Catron Cor- 

 poration has always had a keen interest in 

 the forestry problems of the State and the 

 concrete way which they have now taken to 

 show this interest is worthy of their ef- 

 forts heretofore in the same direction. The 

 area has a mixed stand of hardwoods, com- 

 mon to the region, and includes some pines. 

 The management of this tract on scientific 

 forestry principles will serve as an excellent 

 example of what can be accomplished un- 

 der these conditions in the Southern Ap- 

 palachian region. Active steps will be 

 taken to put the area under effective ad- 

 ministration at an early date. Immediate 

 measures will be taken looking to the pro- 

 tection of the timber on the tract from fire 

 and other destructive agencies. 



ILLINOIS 



'T'HE Quincy, Illinois, High School has 

 a forestry club, the purpose of which 

 is to save the trees we have now and to 

 plant others. A Science Club, of the same 

 city, composed of twelve or fifteen en- 

 thusiastic nature students, has secured a 

 small tract of land and is growing on it 

 such forest trees as pecan, persimmon, wal- 

 nut and chestnut, which are to be trans- 



planted to suitable locations as the club 

 members take their weekly hikes. 



The University of Illinois has an ex- 

 perimental forest tree plantation begun in 

 the spring of 1871 from which some inter- 

 esting data should now be secured. An 

 appropriation of $1,000 was made in 1869 

 by the Legislature for trees and seeds. 

 Thirteen acres were planted on prairie soil 

 under the direction of Prof. T. J. Burrill, 

 horticulturist and botanist, and G. W. Mc- 

 Cluer, M. S., assistant horticulturist. It is 

 located at the experimental farm, on Lin- 

 coln Avenue. Forest records were kept 

 for 1871, 1872, 1876 and 1886 by Professor 

 Burrill, in which are stated the amounts 

 expended for plants, planting, cultivation, 

 etc., and the receipts from thinnings. 

 European larch, elms, spruce, white pine, 

 soft maple, basswood, black walnut, Bur 

 oak, red oak and hickory are the species 

 which have done best. The forest is 

 fencedi and is used to some extent by the 

 residents of Urbana as a park. 



GEORGIA 



"EXTENSION Forester Zimm devoted 

 the month of July to the Extension 

 Schools, which are held in connection with 

 the District Agricultural Schools. One 

 phase of the work which Mr. Zimm is em- 

 phasizing is the preservative treatment of 

 fence posts, shingles, and other farm tim- 

 bers, and he has succeeded in establishing 

 a small treating plant for demonstration 

 purposes at each District School. 



Vocational work in forestry and agri- 

 culture is receiving considerable attention 

 at the Georgia State College of Agriculture. 

 Approximately 150 rehabilitated soldiers 

 have been sent to the College for special 

 work and the Vocational Board states that 

 preparation should be made to accommodate 

 a total of between four and five hundred. 



In connection with the program for High- 

 way Construction and Improvement, to be 

 conducted co-operatively by the State and 

 the Federal Government, the Georgia State 

 Highway Commission has recommended 

 that the establishment of roadside trees be 

 given consideration at the same time. The 

 Georgia State Forest School, through the 

 Extension Forester, has agreed to co- 

 operate with the Highway Commission in 

 this phase of road improvement. 



A bill introduced in the Georgia General 

 Assembly provides for the placing of 

 all forestry matters in the hands of the 

 Board of Trustees of the Georgia State 

 College of Agriculture and empowering the 

 Board to appoint a State Forester. The 

 bill is the result of a conference of in- 

 terested persons of the State and Mr. 

 Peters, of the U. S. Forest Service. It is 

 believed that the passage of this bill will 

 enable the State to give proper attention 

 to this most important of all natural re- 

 sources — the forest. The bill has the en- 

 thusiastic support of the lumbermen of 

 the State. 



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