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SALE OF TIMBER, KLAMATH INDIAN 



RESERVATION. 



CLIFF BOUNDARY UNIT. 



SEALED BIDS, MARKED OUTSIDE "BID, 

 Cliff Boundary Timber Unit" and addressed 

 to the Superintendent of the Klamath Indian 

 School, Klamath Agency, Oregon, will be re- 

 ceived until 12 o'clock noon, Pacific time, Tues- 

 day, September 23, 1919, for the purchase of tim- 

 ber upon about 10,000 acres within Townships 33 

 and 34 South, Ranges 7 and 8 East of the Wil- 

 liamette Meridian. The sale embraces approxi- 

 mately 100,000,000 feet of yellow pine and sugar 

 pine. Each bid must state for each species the 

 amount per 1,000 feet Scribner decimal C log 

 scale that will be paid for all timber cut prior 

 to April 1, 1924. 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 and seventy-five cents ($3.75) 

 per 1,000 feet for yellow and sugar pine and one 

 dollar ($1.00) per 1,000 feet for other species of 

 timber during the first period will be considered. 

 Each bid must be submitted in duplicate and be 

 accompanied by a certified check on a solvent 

 national bank in favor of the Superintendent of 

 the Klamath Indian School in the amount of 

 $10,000. The deposit will be returned if the bid 

 is rejected but retained if the bid is accepted 

 and the required contract and bond are not 

 executed and presented for approval within sixty 

 days from such acceptance. The right to reject 

 any and all bids is reserved. For copies of the 

 bid and contract forms and for other information 

 application should be made to the Indian Super- 

 intendent, Klamath Agency. Oregon. 



Washington, D. C, July 14, 1919. CATO 

 SELLS, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 



PLANT MEMORIAL 



TREES FOR OUR 



HEROIC DEAD 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



BY ELLWOOD WILSON 



PRESIDENT, CANADIAN SOCIETY OF FOREST ENGINEERS 



A T the summer meeting of the Wood- 

 lands Section of the Canadian Pulp 

 and Paper Association, mentioned in our 

 last number, a discussion of vital importance 

 to the forests took place. The work of 

 fire prevention for the past seven years 

 has shown conclusively that cut-over areas 

 are the most liable to have fires started in 

 them, and once started these fires are the 

 most difficult to extinguish and do the 

 greatest amount of damage. A few years 

 ago when the areas cut over each year were 

 comparatively small and often widely sepa- 

 rated, a fire in a lumbered area only de- 

 stroyed a small section, but now that the 

 yearly cut has so increased, over two hun- 

 dred per cent, and whole river valleys now 

 are practically cut-over the situation is be- 

 coming very serious and some steps must 

 be taken to dispose of the debris from log- 

 ging. It is the general opinion of foresters 

 and many lumbermen that the present 

 method of cutting to a diameter limit is 

 unwise, unscientific and wasteful. The 

 coniferous trees, being shallow-rooted blow 

 down, the remaining hardwoods soon form 

 a dense cover and prevent the growth of 

 the conifers and those trees which are left 

 under the supposition that they will form 

 a future crop, if they do not blow down, 

 make practically no growth as they were, 

 for the most part, suppressed. It has also 

 been shown that where clean cutting of 

 conifers and most of the hardwoods is prac- 

 ticed, a dense growth of spruce and balsam 

 appears at once. The proper method to be 

 adopted should be that of clean cutting of 

 both conifers and hardwoods, brush burn- 

 ing and then management of the stand. By 

 management is meant the proper thinning 

 of the natural regeneration and the re- 

 moval from time to time of the undesirable 

 species. The time has certainly come when 

 we should realize that to get the most out 

 of the forest we must handle it according 

 to the proper principals. Forest farming 

 has its rules just as agriculture has and 

 they must be followed and must be applied 

 by men who know them and who have the 

 necessary technical training. We can no 

 longer continue to treat our forests as 

 mines and use up our forest capital. Meth- 

 ods of cutting must be revised, slash must 

 be disposed of and systems of management 

 put into practice if we are to have forests 

 in the future. 



Clyde Leavitt, Forester to the Commis- 

 sion of Conservation and the Dominion 

 Railway Board, was operated on in Ottawa, 



June 25, and at last reports was doing 

 very well. 



Mr. F. W. Reed represented the U. S. 

 Forest Service at the meeting of the 

 Woodlands Section and took part in the 

 discussion. Mr. Sterling, of James D. 

 Lacey and Company, and Mr. R. S. Kellogg, 

 of the News Print Service Bureau, were 

 also present. Mr. Craig, of the Commission 

 of Conservation; Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief 

 Forester of Quebec; Mr. Prince, Chief 

 Forester of New Brunswick; Mr. R. H. 

 Campbell, Director of Dominion Forestry 

 Branch ; Mr. Avery, of the Spanish River 

 Pulp and Paper Company; Messrs. Yberg 

 and Jewett, of the Riordon Pulp and 

 Paper Company; Mr. Galarneau and 

 Mr. Nix, of the St. Maurice Paper Com- 

 pany; Mr. Cressman, of the Wayagamack 

 Pulp and Paper Company ; Mr. Sweezy, of 

 the Royal Securities Company; Mr. Kiffer, 

 of the Quebec Forest Service ; Captain 

 Tremblay, of the Donnacona Paper Com- 

 pany; Mr. Schanche, of the Abitibi Power 

 and Pulp Company, and Messrs. Arnold 

 Hannsen and R. W. Lyons, of the Lauren- 

 tide Company, were among the Canadian 

 foresters present. 



The new classification of the Canadian 

 Civil Service has just been published and 

 the salaries for foresters are so low that 

 no man who has taken four years at college 

 and a technical two years' course there- 

 after can afford to work for the Dominion 

 Government. Foresters have been rated 

 lower than any other professional men. 

 The result will be that the service will soon 

 lose all its good men. Salaries in many 

 cases are far below those that the present 

 incumbents are receiving and in one case 

 a position has been reclassified and will 

 hereafter receive less than its present holder 

 received on commencing nearly ten years 

 ago. The schedule is as follows : 



Some comparisons are of interest. The 

 Dominion Entomologist is to receive 

 $3,900 to $4,800; the Dominion Foresters, 

 $3,600 to $4,500. A geologist is to receive 

 $3,300 and UP; a forester, $1,680 to $2,100. 

 The Director of the Forest Products Labo- 

 ratory is to receive only $3,120 to $3,600. 

 In most cases Provincial Governments are 

 paying better salaries, as do also private 

 concerns. Practically the whole of techni- 

 cal staff of the Forest Products Laboratory 

 has been engaged by private concerns. As 

 inevitably the management of Government 

 Forests must come into the hands of tech- 

 nical men, and as they constitute such a 



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