The Winslow mail., 1925-01-02

dCIGS.
However, this is but one unit of the
Sitgreaves forest, and is called the
Deer Springs unit of the Mogollon
working circle, and lies between
Pinedale on the east and Heber on
the west, and from point about
thirty miles south of Winslow to the
Mogollon rim.
The other units, into which the Sit
greaves national forest has been di-
vided are known as the Heber block,
which lies west of the Deer Springs
unit, then the Chevalon block, west
of the Heber block, and which ad-
joins the Coconino national forest.
The development of the project will
provide an opportunity for the estab-
lishment of new numbering operations
on vast scale, and with the later
appraisal of the Heber and Chevalon
units of the Sitgreaves, the operations
will be exceeded in magnitude by no
other numbering section in the west
For more than two years the for
estry service has been at work plat
ting, cruising and surveying the pro-
posed Deer Greek unit, Mr.. Quincy
Randall, logging engineer of the for
estry department, making the apprais-
al and preparing the maps. Includ-
ed in the survey made by Mr. Randall
is a proposed railway extending from
the timber line to join the Apache
railway at Snowflake, however, it will
lie within the province of the sue
cessful bidder to log or mill at any
point which may seem more economi-
cal or justified by railroad cOnnec-
tions, by the nature of the country
over which the logging road shall
pass, railroad facilities, and other con-
siderations.
Unconfirmed rumors state that
Winslow may be the terminal for the
logging road into the new timber
belt, and that big mill will be To-
Gated in this vicinity and the choice
apparently lies between Snowflake and
WinsIow, because of almost equal dis
tance from the field of operations,
down-hill haul to each town from the
timber, water conditions and climate
permitting all-year milling operations.
The plan under which the Sitgreaves
forest will be opened, will be one of
the first large projects on which a
lumber mill can be built with the ex-
where built. The conservation policy
of the forestry service will be follow
ed out permitting rotation Of cut,
to the end that when the last circle
has been opened and logged, the first
circle will have become reforested and
ready for cutting again. About sew
enty-fve years is estimated for the
re-growth of timber on the area to
be logged first.
The Cady lumber company of Nc
Nary (formerly Cooley and Flagstaff,
are cutting at the McNary mill only
on the Indian reservation, but they
possess permits from the government
to cut over a portion of the national
forest in the vicinity of Pinetop. They
have ten or eleven years longer in
which to operate that mill and the
amount of timber to be removed totals
in the neighborhood of 230 million
feet The proposed Deer Springs
unit, with it's 2S7 million feet, and 35
million feet of privately owned tim
ber, makes a project, for the initial
cut in the Sitgreaves, practically fifty
per cent larger than the McNary
yield.
The sustained yield of timber of the
new project brings closer the time
when numbering will develop into one
of the states greatest industries. With
the countless millions of feet yet un-
touched there is prospect of Arizona