Medford Mail Tribune.

IMMENSE BELT
KLAMATH TIMBER
OFFERED FOR SALE

The forest service is now advertising for sale and will receive bids up to and including April 10, 1915, on approximately 382,000,000 feet of mostly western yellow pine timber in southern Oregon. This is the largest amount of national forest timber that has yet been offered for sale in Oregon under a single contract. It consists of two units, but bids will be received on both units or on either separately.

The first unit comprises about 71,200 acres in the Crater National Forest, on Four-Mile, Lost and Woods creeks, which are tributary to Upper Klamath lake at a point about thirty miles north of Klamath Falls, Oregon. The estimated amount to be cut on this unit is 85,000,000 board feet consisting mostly of western yellow pine and some sugar pine, lodgepole pine and western white pine, and an unestimated amount of other species, which is removable at the option of the purchaser. The advertised rates are $3 per thousand for the pines and 50 cents per thousand for the other species.

The second unit, further north, comprises about 17,800 acres on the Paulina National Forest, on the watershed of Bear creek, between Crater Lake National Park and the Klamath Indian reservation. On this unit there is a total estimated amount of 297,000,000 board feet, of western yellow, sugar, lodgepole and western white pines, 97 per cent of which is western yellow pine. There is also an unestimated amount of other species removable at the purchaser's option. The advertised rates for the timber in this unit are $3.25 per thousand for the pines and 50 cents per thousand for the other species.

Necessary time for the construction of preliminary improvements will be granted, and nine years as a maximum limit will be allowed for the cutting of the timber on the first unit and twelve years on the second unit if they are sold separately. If both tracts are included in one contract, a maximum cutting period of sixteen years will be allowed, with provision for a complete reappraisal of the timber remaining uncut at the end of twelve years. In any event, the agreement of sale will provide for periodic readjustments of the initial stumpage rates based on increases in the market value of timber.