Hungry Horse news., 1949-03-11
Set Road, Timber Bid Calls

DlO OpcliillS udISS Ol ApIll -
for reservoir area timber sales
and April II for the Spotted Bear
road relocation have been set az
the Hungry Horse project.
The April 5 opening is on sale
of ten schedules of standing TIM
ber of saw-log size. Any one OF
the ten schedules, or all of them,
may be bid upon. They total an
estimated 70,OSO,OOO board fee.
of larch, fir spruce and pine.
April II bids will be opened
for 1877 miles of Spotted Bear
forest service road to be relocated
out of the Hungry Horse reservoir
area between Riverside creek and
Elk park up the Flathead rivers
south fork.
First section of the Spotted Bear
road relocation lies between Emery
creek and Riverside creek, and is
under contract to F. R. Hewett
Co., Spokane, for $632, ,448. Before
winter shutdown this stretch was
half completed. The third section
of the Spotted Bear road to be
relocated is between Elk park
and Twin creeks. The new route
will be surveyed this spring and
summer by national forest crews,
and the forest service is to pro-
vide for relocation.
Quantities involved in the bu-
reau April II opening include 1870
acres of right-of-way clearing,
379,210 cubic yards of excavating,
and furnishing and laying of 4,O31
linear feet of IL to 72-inch dia-
meter drain pipe.
Working conditions and quanti-
ties are similar to the HeWett
job, though the 1877 miles for
which bids are being called, for
example, will tend to use large
culverts instead of bridges as iu
the Hewett contract.
At least three contractors view
ed the road area last fall before
it became snow covered. Com
pletion clause on the 1877 miles
allows 500 days after notice OF
contract award. There are 800 and
800 day completion clauses in the
timber sale contracts.
Bureau of reclamation plan On
the timber sales is to follow thu
loggers with large clearing con-
tracts this summer for removal Of
brush, understandable trees and
debris. Hungry Horse dam, part
tally completed, is to store 1,OOO,-
900 acre-feet of water by the
spring of 1852.
Local mills have already had
cruising parties up the south fork
There is also definite possibility
that groups of Flathead county
mills will get together on bids.
The general minimum price ask
ed of SO to $11 a thousand board
feet for pine; So to SIS for spruce,
and So to $3.50 for fir and larch
is except for pine, about half the
forest service minimum. The price
inducement is to help prevent saw
log trees from becoming just part
of a clearing contract to be burned.
Schedule 1 on Hungry Horse and
Emery creek is 3,23O,OOO board
feet including 21O thousand board
feet pine, 1,240 spruce, 1,78O larch,
fir and others. d.
Schedule 2 on Wounded Buck
creek totals 2,250,OOO board feet
$50 thousand board feet
pine, $50 spruce, 1O4O larch, fir
and others.
The other schedules are further
up the south fork No. 3 on Clay
ton creek totals 7,55O,O0O board
feet with 1,12O thousand board
feet pine, 2,17O spruce and 4,260
larch, fir and others.
Largest of the ten schedules is
No. 7 on Graves creek totaling
11,530,000 board feet including
3,17O thousand pine, $500 spruce
and $500 larch, fir and others.
No. 1 and No. 2 have the smallest
quantities.
These standing timber sales
cover most of the reservoir area
except for the Seaboard Surety
1amsite and Wilson, Grove and
rrisdale clearing contracts.
The South Fork road is p-dssdbLe
>1oith chGi,s) to the Wi1sos1
1roaOe and Tr'isdole camp on Ria,-
,rSide creek.