The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-10-18
TIMBER SALES IN
THIS DISTRICT

over clSHLy mllnOn lceb OI tlmDef
was cut from the National forests of
District during the past fiscal year,
according to statement just compiled
by the local district office OF the for
est service. The ahovs amount was
cut under sales and free use and the
total shown for the year is consider
able increase over the cut for the pre-
ceding fiscal year. The average
stumpage price received for the tim
Der cut under sales during the year
was $2.1s per NJ for green and $1.74
per M. for dead material. There were
1888 timber sales made and practi-
eally every stick of timber sold was
used locally in the regions surround
ing the National forests.
OF the above total, 3S,741, 900 feet
were cut under free use, no stumpage
charge being made for thish material.
The free use regulation provides that
settlers living within and adjacent to
the National forests are entitled to
$40 worth of timber free each year 1t
is expressly provided that timber Civ
en- away under the free use regulation
cannot be used commercially, but must
be utilized by the permittee upon his
ranch or farm land.
The extent to which the forest SER
vice aids new settlers in furnishing
them free timber is shown not alone
by the aggregate amount actually CIV
en- away, but the large number of per-
mittees among which this timber was
distributed. The total number of free
use permits actually issued in this dis
trict during the year was 1862, max
ing the average amount taken by each
permittee approximately 5000 feet.
All of this timber was used personal
ly by the permittees in the upbuilding
of their ranches and homes. 1t repre-
sents all classes of material, the most
common being house logs, fence posts
and poles, derrick poles, corral poles,
barn timbers, etc.
Forestry ofncials state that some
times complaints are made that $40
worth of timber annually is not suffi-
cient to meet the local needs of settl-
ers, and they point out that such state
ments are clearly disproved by the
show that of over $4,000 settlers who
ask for free use timber the average
amount taken IS only about 5000 feet,
or So to SO worth of material. The
annual statement shows that the
heaviest free use forest in the district
is the Targhee, on which 929 permits,
averaging ATS feet of timber, were
issued. The forest which isued the
largest number of permits was the
Minindoka, where 1,4l9 settlers were
given an aggregate of 2,257 ,000 feet
OF timber. Other forests on which the
free use business was heavy are the
Weser, Salmon, Lemhi, Palisade, Wy
oming, Cache, Pocatello, Unita, Fill
more, Fishlake, Manti, Sewer and
Humboldt.
The forest on which the heaviest
timber sale business was done are the
Payette, Salmon, Targhee, Wyoming,
Manti, and Toiyabe. The Payette for
est leads in the point of timber sale
receipts, approximately $4,000 being
received for timber cut from this for
est. The total timber sale receipts for
the entire district during the past fis-
cal year showed an increase over re-
eeipts for the preceding fiscal year of
4S per cent. Officials of the local tim
ber sale Office state that the timber cut
and sold to date for the present fiscal
year is in excess of that cut and sold
for the same period of the last fiscal
year, indicating that the present year
will show still greater increase in
the timber sale business of the district.