1366 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



234,000,000 FEET 



NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER 



FOR SALE 



Location and Amount. — All the 

 merchantable dead timber 

 standing or down and all the 

 live timber marked or desig- 

 nated for cutting on the 

 Clover Valley Logging Unit 

 embracing about 26,000 acres 

 in T. 23 N., Rs. 14 and 15 E., 

 T. 24 N., Rs. 12, 13, 14 and 15 

 E., and T. 25 N., Rs. 12 

 and 13 E., M. D. M. estimated 

 to be 165,000,000 feet B. M. 

 of yellow and Jeffrey pine, 

 7,500,000 feet B. M. of sugar 

 pine, 49,500,000 feet B. M. of 

 white fir, 4,000,000 feet B. M. 

 of Douglas fir, 450,000 feet B. 

 M. of red fir and 7,500,000 

 feet B. M. of incense cedar 

 saw timber, more or less lo- 

 cated within the Plumas Na- 

 tional Forest, California. 



Stumpage Prices. — Lowest rates 

 considered, $3.00 per M. feet 

 for yellow and Jeffrey pine, 

 $3.50 per M. feet for sugar 

 pine, $1.50 per M. feet for 

 Douglas fir and incense cedar, 

 $.75 per M. feet for white fir 

 and $1.00 per M. feet for red 

 fir. For material unmerchant- 

 able under the terms of the 

 agreement to be removed at 

 the option of the purchaser, 

 for which payment is required 

 by the Forest Service, fifty 

 cents per M. feet. Rates to be 

 redetermined by May 1, 1924. 



Deposit.— With bid $10,000 to 

 apply on purchase price if bid 

 is accepted or refunded if re- 

 jected. 



Final Date For Bids. — Sealed 

 bids will be received by the 

 District Forester, San Fran- 

 cisco, California, up to and in- 

 cluding October 15, 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, San Fran- 

 cisco, California, or the Forest 

 Supervisor, Quincy, Califor- 

 nia. 



MICHIGAN 

 HPHE past summer found the compart- 

 ment line construction work practically 

 completed on two State Forests, the Fife 

 Lake and the Ogemaw. On each of these, 

 a compartment line has been built on the 

 government land subdivision survey lines 

 around each forty acre tract, excepting 

 where swamps or lakes interfere. The Fife 

 Lake Forest contains 7182 acres and the 

 Ogemaw 4284 acres, and the compartment 

 line systems are 112 and 57 miles long, re- 

 spectively. 



In addition to the systems built on these 

 two forests there are some 380 miles on the 

 other State Forests, and the present sys- 

 tems will be strengthened with more line 

 until each forest is equipped as is each of 

 the two mentioned. 



These two forests are, probably, the first 

 in America to be so equipped. Since the 

 cpnstruction and maintenance of the lines 

 entails considerable cost, it is interesting 

 to note, as offsetting the cost, their value 

 in a general way to the forest in the light 

 of our own experience. To be sure Eu- 

 ropean foresters long ago were satisfied 

 that the construction of compartment lines 

 was essential to the efficient operation of 

 their forests, and the more intensively 

 managed forests of Europe are now well 

 provided. 



The lines, as we construct them, are 

 cleared of brush and trees to a width of 

 sixteen feet, all stumps are removed to a 

 width of twelve feet, and a strip ten feet 

 wide is plowed and harrowed. The line is 

 reharrowed or is disced as necessity arises, 

 to remove all grass, ferns, brush, etc., which 

 may start on it. A clean dirt road results. 

 They are the streets of our forests. 



As streets they serve the same purposes 

 and have much the same relative value to 

 the forest as do the streets to a city. 

 Along them, one may quickly drive to any 

 fire which may arise, and as the streets of 

 a city act as barriers to the spread of fires, 

 and as bases from which fires may be 

 fought, so do the compartment lines of the 

 forest. Indeed, their value as a means of 

 protecting the woods from serious damage 

 by forest fires is, perhaps, their greatest 

 value at present, and as their use for this 

 means is readily observed, they are gen- 

 erally called fire lines. It is along the com- 

 partment lines that telephones are strung, 

 and it is they that, in large measure, bear 

 the vehicular travel over the forest. 



The compartments correspond in bound- 

 aries with the government land subdi- 

 visions, and as each land subdivision is de- 

 scribed, so is each compartment line bound- 

 ing it. Thus we have as names for our 

 forest streets, the names of subdivision 

 lines, for example: north eight line section 

 36; east and west quarter line section 2; 

 line between sections 11 and 12; etc. The 

 name of the line indicates its precise posi- 

 tion in the forest. 

 The forest is, by the lines, divided and 



marked out on the ground (not along on a 

 map) into units of area suitable for admin- 

 istration purposes. If the Custodian wishes 

 to plant a compartment with young trees, 

 he knows that the area is bounded by com- 

 partment lines, and that its location is un- 

 mistakable ; also that he can get to it with 

 a team, if, indeed, not with his Ford. 



If the State Forester wishes to undertake 

 special surveys or studies or examinations 

 on any particular piece of land, he knows 

 that he can reach it quickly, and that the 

 ease of his work will be immeasurably 

 heightened through the use of the compart- 

 ment lines. It is only the forester who has 

 hunted for section corners and lines in or- 

 der that he might locate his position, who 

 can really appreciate this one value of the 

 compartment line system in the efficient 

 conduct of a forest business. 



The Forestry Section of the Michigan 

 Agricultural Experiment Station is mak- 

 ing a study this summer of the rate of 

 growth of forest plantations and also nut 

 tree plantations. The study includes costs 

 of establishing, care and maintenance and 

 also intermediate and final returns where 

 possible. The results of the study will 

 probably be published some time during the 

 coming winter. 



The Michigan Legislature recently 

 passed a law to encourage the planting of 

 nut-bearing and other food-producing 

 trees along State trunk highways and other 

 roads built in this state. The law makes 

 it the duty of the State Highway Commis- 

 sion and the State Commission of Agri- 

 culture to look after the setting out of such 

 trees and of the State Agricultural College 

 and the Public Domain Commission to 

 distribute stock at nominal cost to local 

 officials and private individuals who will 

 set it out. Trees are to be planted at in- 

 tervals of 20 to 40 feet along the roads. 

 This law is in keeping with the policy of 

 encouraging tree planting announced by 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



NORTH CAROLINA 

 '"PEN years ago the United States Forest 

 Service, in co-operation with the North 

 Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, 

 made a study of the Wood-using Industries 

 of the State, the results of which were pub- 

 lished by the Survey as Economic Paper 

 No. 20, "Wood-using Industries of North 

 Carolina." This report is now out of print 

 and as there is a continuous demand for in- 

 formation on this subject, the Survey has 

 determined to revise thoroughly and bring 

 up to date this report and publish the re- 

 sults in connection with the forthcoming 

 bulletin on the "Forest Conditions of Pied- 

 mont North Carolina," in which portion of 

 the State most of these industries are sit- 

 uated. 



Inquiry cards have been printed and are 

 being sent out to a revised list of firms ask- 



