BIDS FOR STUMFAGE 

 TIKBKR. 



Blia huvo Juat been opened at the Forest Service 

 for t'.e out ting of st.umpape timber unier Government 

 au\urvlrjion on the ^itgreaves an r l Apache Rational Foreots 

 and the Fort AI acV.e Indian Houervatlon, The cutting 

 conprioea 600,000,000 feet, 300,000,000 feet en the 

 Indian Henerration, and 300,000,000 feet on the two 

 National I-oreot3. TTv only bid received wan from the 

 ITavaJo Lurabor & Timber Company of Holbrook, Arizona. 

 It offered *2. r >o for the firet fire years and $3 for 

 tl o aeooncl rive years a thousand feet. According to the 

 advert iseinent of the Department a lO^year contract was 

 desired. T*o yeare* allowance was nade for improvements* 

 WMlo tho contract has not been awarded It was stated on 

 flood axithority that this fcid will be accepted. 



KILLED TIMBER SALES. 



W B. Greeley, Silviculture branch of the Forest 

 Service, in speaking of the killed timber which had 

 been sold recently, save the following figures: In 

 the last eighteen months the Government has sold 3$5 

 million feet in western Montana and northern Idaho. The 

 moot recent sale, two weeks ago, was a tract of 25 

 million foot on the Two ttediclno River, on the Lewis i 

 Clarke National Foreot. Thl" consisted mostly of lodge- 

 pole rl Douglas fir and Bnge Inarm spruce. Pifty-fivs 

 Ullon feet was recently oold on the Gt. Joe Rirer in 

 Idaho. This HUB mostly white pine. 



