The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-02-20
IMMENSE BODY OF Tim.
Der TO Be SOLD
Total of $50 Million Feet on
the Payette Ready for
the Axe


Service will begin advertising for
sale two large tracts of timber ag-
gregating $50 million feet on the
Payette river within the Boise and
Payette national forests. The tim
Der is being placed on sale as re-
suit of an applicable to pdrchs Sc,
made by an eastern lumber COM
pany, which mas had representatives
look over the timber on the ground
This company hss under cons. dera-
ton the operation of a la ge mill
at some point on the Payette river
and the manufac, ure of flom 25 to
so million feet of lumber annually.
Under the law, the foross ser
vice is required to advertise fer
period of rot less than 80 days
timber to be sold in amounts Of
more than 800 in value, but it is
the policy of the Forester in selling
large amounts of timber to adver-
tise fer periods of from go to 12Ol
days. The object of the longer adj
yertise ments is TO give the sales
full publicity and TO allow interest /
ed parties to make tield examina- /
tions, to the end that as much /
competition as possible may be OBJ
tained. The Payette river timber
is to be advertise for three and
one-half months or until Junt 1,
when the bids will be opened by I
the district forester at Odgen, Utah.
and the sale or sales AWARDED to
highest bidders. Bids are 10 be
invited on all or any portion of
leach tract advertised. thus giving
small operators an oppoltuni y to
buy in amounts which they can
handle. The advertisement will
be run in one Idaho paper and in ,,
the principal eastern lumber t!ade
journals.
The Payette river timber is to
be sold in two tracts, ore on the
South Fork of the river, estima ed
to cut 500 million of Yellow pine T
and Douglas fir; the other on the |
Middle Fork, es imated to cut ap-
)roximately 450 million feet of Yel- L
ow pine, Douglas fir and spruce. I he S
imber is mature and the fores;e.s I
ay it should be cut in order to n
lllow the young timber, of which u
here is great deal, chance to e.
row and produce another cutting o
within 80 or so years. The mini Il
num rates at which it is tt. be ad- IL
ertised are $3.50 per thousand o.
eet fer Yellow pine and s1.00 per e;
housand feet for fir on the South II
'ork. and $500 psr thousand feet
DR. Yellow pine and s1.0O per thou. r
and feet for other species ON the l.
Iiddle Fork Contract periods of
'om 3 to l years will be allowed
,r the removal of the timber, de-
ending upon the amount purchas-
l. pl
If both tracts are sold, forest
,rvice Officials say, from 35 to
million feet of timber will be
gged annually lor tweI,y years
ON the region. The market value
the manu- actured product will pN
, about SIS per thousaI fee. or ~
ON $4,000 to 100000 fer the Oe'
mount produced d annually. This VI
nount of timber produced loealIy, iai
is pointed out, viii be of immens, WI
nefit to the southeastern poi n IIid
IN of Idaho, since at the Ere
Mt time most of the lumber Us d ne
shipped in flom the coass and ihs
stern Oregon. The To- al manu-
,ture of from 95 to so million ft. ma
nually will retain within the state 'ne
portion of the mon Vi
now leaving it in payment for wa
ported lumber. 1t will further GUS
'nish considerable emp oyment in gov
woods and mills tne
Since 25 per cent of the receipts SET
m the National fores go to uno
state for Schools and roa6s. and On
per cent to the construction of the
ds within the national forests, uec.
further benefit will be derived
ally from these sales. Forest aet
vice officials handling the sale, wal
that they expect quite a num- tric'
of bids, since several her ene
tern lumber companies have ex- z4e,
ssed much interest in the tim ol
and desire to look it oge~.