The copper era and Morenci leader., 1914-05-01
GOVT. MODELS SHOW
NUMBERING IN
FORESTS
These Miniature Models Have Just
Been Prepared in Washington for
Display at the Forest Products Ex-
position in Chicago and New York.

Two models which show how the
government sells its timber have just
been prepared in Washington, for dis
play at the forest products exposition,
to be held in Chicago April 80 to May
9 and in New York May 20 to 80.
These models represent an acre of
western yellow pine land in nation
al forest of the southwest before and
after logging.
In the model showing the stand
before the lumberman goes into it the
trees range from those only a few
years old to large, overmature, stag
headed individuals more than ready
for the ak. In the second model the
mature trees and all others larger
| than certain diameter have been
cut down and made into logs and
cOrdwood. In this, as in all govern
ment sales, the stumps are cut low
to avoid unnecessary waste, logs are
taken to a small diameter we'll up
into the tree, and such material as is
not fit for lumber is converted into
cordwood. Together, the models
show the care which the government
requires of lumbermen in telling old
trees so that the young growth is not
injured. The brush is piled in heaps
for burning after the lumber has been
removed, in order that the fire menace
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numbering may be done away with
The models are on a scale of about
one inch to five feet, so that trees
approximately 100 feet tall are about
20 inches high in the models.
1t is the intention of the forest
service to have these models set
forth certain points in regard to the
timber sales conducted by the gov
eminent. They will demonstrate, in
hn fret T11oo hot h. A.,
national forests is for use; placards
tell how it is sold to the highest bid
der when it is wanted for commercial
purposes, and how it may be given
away to local settlers and prospectors
for developing homesteads or mines
The models themselves indicate that
the timber is cut in such a way as
to eliminate all avoidable waste of
wood and to secure a continuance of
the forest crop, not only for timber
production but for the protection of
the soil. They further show the
fundamental principles applicable to
many logging operations that the ma
ture and overmature trees should be
removed, that thriftily growing young
trees should be left to produce seed
and insure a reproduction of the
stand, and that the young growth
should be protected from damage in
The models are supplemented by a
graphic chart, which shows by pictur-
ed piles of money and by conventional
trees of graded size the increase of
timber sales on the national forests
from 1903 to 1913, inclusive. In 1905
the timber sold from the national for
ests aggregated 100000 board feet,
which brought the government more
than $4,000. Three years later the
amount of timber sold increased to
nearly 390,000,000 board feet, and the
money received rose to $735,000. In
1911, 830,000,000 board feet sold for
more than 100000, and in 1913 more
than 2,0O0,OOO,00O board feet brought
in contracts amounting to $4,500,000.
Not all this money was received in any
one year, because national forest tim
Der is sold on contracts which range |
from one to twenty-five years, and it |
is paid for as cut