Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-15
Washington Ticker
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~ the Associated Press.
As matters stand now the Govern
ment will be able to sell on only about
one-sixth Of this years tree crop on
it's national forests and hasn't any
chance of selling the full annual yield
for q long time to come.
This prospect, while sufficiently as
NAL for the ordinary private agricui-
turist, LIS accepted with q good deal OF
eauanimity by the men who manage
the vast acreage of the national forest
holdings in view of other considerations
than immediate timber yield which for
mulate It's policies. At that as Col. II.
Y. stuart, chief forester, calculates, tim
Der sales this year from national forests
will amount to possibly $500 600, ana
their total. tending to rise with the
years, may some day equal annual
growth. They will run for 1929 to -, =
billion and q half lumber feet, and Will
constitute about per cent OF total
lumber production in the Nation.
1T isn't the policy Of the Govern
ment to force timber to sale" Col. Stu
art said Of the situation, and pronaDly
never will be. AS proprietor Of 1SO,-
600. 900 acres of land, now distributed
on both sides of the continent, 1t has
a good many uses to which its forests
are put. II somebody proposed to buy
200 600, 900 feet of standing timber To
start . new lumber operation on ma
tional forests. in view Of present condi-
tions in the lumber market. there might
be q complete refusal to sell. II any
established local plant needed more
stumpaRe, 1t would be sold unhesitantly
since as q proprietor the Government
has q duty to help maintain industry
and population tributary to it's land.
Nevertheless, though the trend isn't
quite stable, the timber sales show
tendency to increase ut rate OF about
8 per cent annually. A number Of other
things than timber come from national
forests also. Grazing fees are large.
and last year there were 23,OO8,0o0 visit
ors to forests or rs per cent more than
the year before. The expenditures
aren't met from the revenues yet, but
there are large amounts OF road build
ing and other capital investment enter
ing into the expenditures"
In the ideal Of forest management on
the national holdings lumber will be
regular though longtime crop, and the
first approach to the ideal will be made
in the next two or three years In the
Black Fills region Of South Dakota.
There the second yellow pine stand,
grown to replace cuttings begun under
Government auspices in 1900, is now
atoms will begin again on the same
spots that underwent original cutting
when the forest came under Govern
ment control.
THE second growth on the Black
Hills, where the first full circle of oper-
alton will be completed, will be some
what better timber than the parent
stand OF 80 years back" said e. Z.
Clark, associate forester, who handles
timber sales. Prom the present out
look, the price the Government will re-
ceive for It will be just about what the
original stand brought. It will all be
available for the 1aS0-40 decade"
Estimates OF the volume of trafic
that may be afforded railroads in the
third and fourth quarters of this year
are now being worked up through the
American Railway Association, In con-
ference with shippers in all regions. II.
@. Taylor, representing the association.
in preparing the estimates, said this
week before leaving to attend the gath
erinRs through the Northwest to the
Pacic Coast that all the preliminary re-
turns indicated the years tonnage
would set new records. but the expecta-
tions would be made more definite after
the formulation of reports in each city.
series OF miilion-car weekly load
ings has been experienced by class
lines this Spring. and the movement, II
maintained at the rate produced, will
entail provision of more equipment and
more capital expenditure on facilities
by the carriers within Q very brief
period.
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