Evening star., 1924-05-14
INDIAN RESERVATION
FORESTS PUT ON SALE
Government to Dispose Of 375, ,000,-
!. 900 Feet of Timber to Highest
IN Bidder Tomorrow.
ADDS WEALTH TO OWNERS
Klamath Tribe in Oregon Owner Of
Huge Tracts.
BY J. c. ROYLE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 1.-Two great
sections of the forest primeval will
be turned into forest productive to-
morrow when over 375,0o0,000 feet
of timber will be sold by the govern
ment at the Klamath Indian reserva-
tion in Oregon to the highest bidder
This will not only add millions of dol
lars to the wealth of the klamath
Indians, who rank high among the
great American timber owners, but
will furnish work and pay at high
wages to thousands of men for years
to come. These original owners of the
soil are possessed of some eight
thousand million feet of timber,
enough to build over 500, 900 houses
or to house city of over 100000
people.
Units Designated for Sale.
The two units to be disposed of
this week are known as the Trout
Creek unit and the Squaw Flat unit
and are located in southern Oregon.
They comprise a total of 1850 acres
and constitute two of the largest
forests of yellow pine now standing.
No bids under $5,000,000 will be con-
sidered and the tracts will be sold
under agreements calling for the
cutting of timber under a graduated
scale of prices to be Increased each
three years. The numbering of the
regions involved will extend over at
least fifteen years.
The opening of these vast timber
lands to exploitation is not expected
by lumber manufacturers to reduce
lumber prices. The demand for
building in the last few years has
necessitated the expenditure of near
ly 0,000, 100000 and, while building
operations have slackened to some
extent. shortage of housing facilities
Will necessitate continuation of op-
erations at high pace for some
years to come.
ever, is counted on to open to de-
velopment another large region in
Oregon. They lie adjacent to the
Oregon, California and Eastern rail-
road and the new operations are ex-
pected to justify the extension of this
road to eastern and AQythern con-
nections.
Another Sale June 5.
The sale tomorrow will be followed
June by the disposal at the same
place of the Long Prairie and North
Marsh units of the klamath reserva-
ton, which embrace 74,300 acres. on
which 700,000.000 feet of timber,
mostly yellow pine, is growing at
present. The Long Prairie unit will
be tapped both by the Oregon, Cali
Iorn1a and Eastern and by the Cen
trail Pacific road, which, through the
building of the Natron cutoff, now
under construction, will shortly be-
come part of the main line of the
Southern Pacific from Portland to
San Francisco.
The purchase of these lands prob
ably will mark another step in the
transfer of the main activities of
the numbering industry from the
south to the Pacific northwest. That
move already has resulted in the
building of whole new cities and
communities in hitherto undeveloped
regions and while the stand of
southern pine is by no means ex-
hausted, the farsighted lum mbermen
of that section are already assuring
themselves of logs when the growth
in the southern states shall have
been reduced to two by fours and
one by twelves
How Sales Affect Industries.
The effect of the sales by the gov
ernment is of far more Importance
to the citizens of the country in gen.
eral than is at first apparent. Out