Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-28
4 PRELIMINARY
REPORT FOR SAWYER & AUS
TIN TIMBER LANDS IN
THREE COUNTIES.
GRANT, JEFFERSON, SALINE
Damage by Fire-When and
Why Trees Should be Cut.
Other Timber Facts.

The timber lands consist of about
$4,000 acres in Grant, Jefferson
aid Saline counties, Arkansas.
The main portion of the timber is
ShortIeaf Pine (Plnus eehinata),
with a considerable amount Of oak,
hickory and gum. The latter species
largely predominant along the creek
bottoms. Private holdings occur
throughout these timherlands. but it
is probable that the company will
buy them, or at least secure the tim
Der; SO that about 100000 acres i ! all
may be assumed to be tributary to
the mill at Pine Bluff.
A railroad, ten or twelve miles in
length, is being built into the tract
and will eventually extend entirely
across it. From the main line a
number of spurs will ramify into the
forest. These can be laid aud event
ually removed after they have served
their purpose, for about $500 per
mile, which will be less expensive
than hauling the logs to the main
line by teams. In addition, q "steam
skidder'' will be used to skid and
load the logs, 500 feet on each side of
the track. The company intends to
cut annually from thirty TO thirty
five million feet of pine, as well as
the merehantable hard woods which
are found Oh the sections thus cut
over.
Mr.. Doyle, superintendent of the
woodlands, who has had ample OPP
portunity during twelve years to
become thoroughly acquainted with
them, estimates that the pine will
average 6 600 feet per acre if cut to
about IL inches in diameter at the
stump. On 100 geo acres the total
would therefore amount to 600, 000. 00C
feet, which would last twenty ears
It the rate of 80 600, 900 feet annually
But the company wishes to insure to
itself a continuous supply OF thirty
to thirty-five million feet per year
year by limiting the diameter ac-
cordingly and, If necessary, Ivy the
acquisition of more land.
In order to determine this with
sufficient exactltude careful work
ing plan must be constructed. This
will involve the making Of "valHa-
tier r,,rxyo~c 70 ebrry tlto - -, -. =
OF timber ava |, ble for various diam
eter classes and the rate at " hich
this timber is growing. Knowing
the number of board feet per acre
which can be removed if the cutting
is limited to certain diameter, and
knowing also the amount ind the
rate OF grow tn of the TIMBER loft
standing, it is possible to foretell
that number Of years that must
elapse before second cut, equal to
the first, can be ebtaiaed, under the
same restrictions OF cutting.
The preliminary repart can Only
outline the policy which, from a brief
study of the conditions. would seem
to insure the best results. To flu
tu,e final examination and study
must be left the. deter mination OF de-
tails upon which the success Of the
policy adopted will depend.
REPRODUCTION.
A constant yield from the forest
for an indefinite period of time de-
ponds, among other things, upon the
ability Of the species to produce a
new generation by the scattering OF
the seeds. and upon fayora bic coBdi-
tions for their termination and
grow th. Fortunately the yellov or
shortleaf pine has this power to a
marked degree. Under average fa-
vorable conditions the seeds germi-
nate and the young growth sprouts
very readily. This is especially no
ticeable on old fields, "htrricane
breaks" aud on land from " ch the
mature trees have 5~en removed.