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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
ALMY, BIGELOW & WASHBURN, Inc. 
Salem, Massachusetts 
THE STORE OF VALUES 
Everything That's New In Women’s Wearing Apparel 
Will Be Found in Our Complete Stock which is Now Ready for Your Inspection. 
There are 
Suits, Coats, Dresses, Skirts, Waists 
This Saturday We will Specialize on 
Navy and Black Sutts 
We are receiving daily our new models, but have brought 
together 1n especially gqod assortment of Navy and Black 
Suits to feature for this Saturday's selling, The coats are 
cut from 28 to 32 inches long, strictly tailored, trimmed 
with velvet collar, and the materials are diagonal and 
plain serges. 
Prices range from 
$13.00, $18.75, $25.00 
sizes. 
yoke, piped with 
New Serge Dresses 
In Navy Blue, trimmed with lace 
silk and 
soutache braid; misses and women’s 
Early Fall Special © 
$5.98 
cerise 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Office of the Secretary, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 
Chief Forester Graves is on his 
way to San Francisco to make final 
arrangements under which a Cali- 
fornia lumber company will pur- 
chase 800 millign feet of timber on 
ca Sierra National Forest. 
ber has already been aavarded, after 
public advertisement, to the highest 
bidder, but under the terms of the 
advertisement the final signing of 
the contract will not take place until 
the company has been shown on the 
eround what timber the Government 
will reserve from cutting in order to 
preserve good forest conditions and 
provide for reproduction. 
The company will be allowed its 
full 800 million feet, but naturally it 
will not be allowed to cut clean. As 
a rule the Forest Service reserves 
something: like one-third of the for- 
est stand in applyimg forestry on 
Government suet A marking 
board made up of one man sent from 
Washington, one aa the District 
office in San Francisco, and the local 
Forest Supervisor will carefully 
mark a sample area, to show how 
the restrictions on eutting will be 
applied. Representatives of the 
will then go over this area, 
Chief Forester Graves 
company 
after which 
The tim- * 
and his assistants will, it is expected, 
make final arrangements with the 
company in San Francisco, and the 
contract of sale will be signed. 
‘“The Forest Service,’’ said Mr. 
Graves in speaking of this sale, ‘‘has 
received a number of inquiries 
whether in selling so much timber to 
a single purchaser the Government 
may not be opening the way to a 
monopolistic control of local lumber 
markets. Other correspondents are 
disturbed lest the sale prove a bad 
bargain for the Government through 
the rise in value of the timber in the 
twenty-two years during which the 
company will cut. 
‘‘Such large and long-time sales 
of National Forest timber as that to 
the California company are a new 
development in the Forest Service. 
Great bodies of mature but inacces- 
sible timber can be put on the mar- 
ket only if sale contracts are let on 
terms which will justify a very 
heavy initial investment in trans- 
portation facilities. In entering in- 
to such contracts, however, special 
safeguards to protect the public 
against monopoly and to prevent an 
undue speculative profit to the pur- 
chaser are employed. 
‘The National Forests contain, in 
all, the equivalent of nearly 600 hil- 
lion feet of timber now of merchant- 
able size, besides young growth for 
future harvest. Because of its re- 
moteness from market and the wild, 
mountainous county, without trans- 
portation facilities, in which most of 
it lies, only a small percentage ean 
now be sold on any terms. Most o7 
it would cost more to get it out than ~ 
it would bring. The sale of less than 
one-fifth of one per cent of our totul 
supply to one company leaves plenty 
of room for competition by other 
companies. 
‘‘The timber which has been sold 
to the California company lies well 
back in the Sierra Nevada Moun- 
tains and will require the construc- 
tion of 70 miles of standard-gauge 
railroad to open up the area. Since 
this road will also open up other Na- 
tional Forest timber and will be a 
common earrier, it creates another 
safeguard against monopoly. The 
company is given a cutting period of 
twenty-two years to remove the tim- 
her, besides an additional two years 
for the construction of logging and 
manufacturing facilities. The sale 
was publicly advertised for six 
months in order to give an oppor- 
tunity for all who wished to com- 
pete for the contract to make bids, 
as is done in all large National For- 
est sales. 
(Coneluded next week) 
