The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1920-01-08

per cent $3.50, 100000 feet board meas
ure. Yellow Pine 20 per cent 2,026,-
100000 feet board measure. Red Fir
81 per cent 2,12T 100000 feet board
measure. Other mixed woods "a per |
cent 3444, 100000 feet board measure
In the above figures no account is
taker of growth increment, nor of
posts, piling, poles, stumpagc and
cord wood.
The timber alone on the States
holdings, if marketed at an average
price Of $500 per thousand would
bring to the State, the immense sum of
$50 O,0OO,0OO.OO, with the land upon
which the timber stands still belong
ing to the State In addition to the
revenues to the institutions of the
State were the timber sold, it is es-
timated that ii $500 per thousand
feet represents wages and $500 per
thousand supplies used in logging and
manufacturing this timber into lum-
Der, the State would have 1882, ,340-
10000 within Its BORDERS.
II the States 10 billion feet of lum-
ber were sent out of the State by rail-
road, the freight would amount to
over $s1 900, 100000 This means that
the railroads will compete for this ton
rage, all Of which insures railroad
\ development increased population and
| vx,n,-a ,.ox,orro fro,,~ &ovotiox
|, If all the standing saw timber in
Idaho, blonging to the State could be
made into lumber at one plant and
placed in a lumber yard in piles Of
customary size, it would require a
yard of 5,S15 acres or over nire
square miles.
A large part of the States timber
was acquired under congressional
above referred to for the benefit of our
educational, charitable and penal in
stitutions. A large share of the endow-
ments, belonging to these institutions
is in the form of standing timber If
this timber Is destroyed by forest fires
or other causes, the endowments are
almost total losses, since very little
of this timber land can be sold for the
minimum Of $1,000 per acre, below
I. which figure 1t cannot be appraised
under the terms Of the grants.
Every time q thousand feet of mer
est fires, the working men of Idaho
lose $500 in ages and the farmers
lose $500, that otherwise would have
been sent for camp supplies, etc. Ant
the farmers and business men lose SIS
90 worth of business, which the wag,
Garner would have been able to dt
with them. The lumber business al
: ways is a great factor in the growth
and development of community, fol
the reason that much of the cost o.
transacting business is for labor ant
. supplies, and the market for the manu-
: factured product is usually at a dis
tance.
We are urging the support of ou
: Congressional delegation for the appro
: priatibn being asked for aeGoplans
fire patrol, feeling that the assistanc
> of this branch of the service will mini
, mize the losses to the State through
. forest fires. If successful in securing
this appropriation, sub-bases will b
L established in various points in Idaho
u one of which will be in Boise
IL The largest body of white pin
E. timber in the world is in Northern Ida
e no, and in this tract stands the onl
'e mature white pine forest of any siz
VI now in existence. In all the olde
white pine states there Is a small quar-
'e tity of first-growth timber left. bu
IL the greater part of the white pine /
N these sections consists of small secon
IT growth.
The largest white pine tree I'M til
world was found in Latah County, Ids
y no. This tree produced over 1880
s. feet of lumber, large proportion c
Is which was of the highest quality.
'd OF the estimated 25 billion feet {
~ standing white pine saw timber in Id,
G. no, the State owns over 10 per cent.
Only second to white pine in qualit
ID is our western yellow pine, of whic
t. there is now standing in Idaho
n billion feet, and Of this total the stat
r. owns about 8 per cent.
d, One of the most important parts
er the work now before US is the propose
IN consolidation of the States isolate
IT, tracts within the National Forest I'M
compact bodies. This will make Il
State s lands more accessible and mo-
hg easily administrated and will resu
NJ i'm greatly increased revenues fro
er grazing fees and land and timber sale
ne