TJIG2LOW: Dftviee mill ie handled almost perfectly. 



Cost of Cuttinr Snsffa 



2CL3I3: On the Rossen Condon sale they tried to 

 pull the snags dorm v/ith a donkey online and found this nethod 

 to be a failure. After that they tried cutting <fo\m the sna^s 

 and savrin-j them up into lumber, "out ~ot practically nothing out 

 of it. They thon tried bloving thoa &<ran rith powder and round 

 it ficr.f;crou8 on recount oi* fire. After thooo orpcrinonts they 



.in rent back to outtir.; thon 'orm altogether." I find that 

 the average cost per sna;~under this letter method to be about 

 v2. apiece - that ic to linb, pile and af.':e ready to dootroy by 



e. 



PTIATT: HOT: rmch merchantable timber did you jjet out 

 of the 8 snags? 



HLL3I}: Ulne hundred and eighty foot. The pur- 

 chaser ras ^ivon a reduction of 25 cents per thoucand feet to 

 fell the 



IT~i : Uas the amount of reduction siifficient to 



pay the purchaser for cutting the 



I think tt r&s about even. 



(Mr. Uilson here recited the csrits of 7:iant over 



black ponder, both from otrjidpoint of effectiveness nnd fire 



dnnr-er. Mo stated that r.lth ^iant It ras possible to do about 



three tines as much ror": rith less than one-fourth the danger.) 



jsrs. Sallaher, Lyons tnd ; /hit tun clso discwsoed 

 the cu'o^cct of felling ona<js, both rith porclcr and cutting do\:n, 

 arriving at no definite solution of the problem. 



GALLAHIP.: The general policy of rrr'rin- as frr as 

 wor>ed out ic to leave a certain pcrcontase on the --jround so 

 as to retum in t.'-out thirty yoarc for a second cutting. '.Ve 

 don't Imov; ]:ov; fr.st our trees ere -rov.in^. The policy of 

 narlzinj is ctill in the air. V/o don't knov; "hothor vo are 

 favorir.%- -;ho rivut c-pocioc. ".7o don't knor.7 that xvhito fir is 

 the poorest tree in the stand. Incense corr ras always con- 

 sidered the least valuable but it heo nc- been dotomined that 

 it can be used in pencil racturo. All re can do now is to 



favor the pine and try to -jot out the fir f.nd cedar, r.nt 3 take e 

 O.ance v?e are f^>in; ritht. Lvorybody kr.orrs how ?;e rnrri: end 

 the appearance the Dale ou-jht to hcve after narlzod. Around 

 Nevada City hardly any trees -are le:Tt end today re htve a fine 



