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Creston; Rex Brown, and F, K and
L Lumber Co., Martin City.
Plum Creek is paying $18 a
thousand board feet for 6,780,00O
board feet of fir and larch; min
imum acceptable bid was $3.15 a
thousand; The Columbia Falls mill
is paying SIG thousand for spruce
and lodgepole pine totaling 8,000,-
600 feet; minimum asked was $1.80
thousand; price paid on 1000, 900
dead spruce is $2.25 thousand up
from rs cents minimum; on white
pine $40 a thousand for 500, 900,
STATS asked, and on alpine fir,
$2.95 thousand on 100000 board
feet, $1.70 asked.
BROWN HIGH BIDDER
Rex Brown, Coram, Monday was
successful bidder for the Lost
Johnny creek sale of 5000, 1000
board feet 10 miles above Hungry
Horse Dam on the west side and
convenient to his Coram mill. He
bid $199,340 for stumpage with
$40,430 the appraised value. Stand
improvement total cost is $3.50
and slash disposal, $4,000. There
is 3.3 miles Of main haul and 2
miles of spur road to build.
Other bidders were F, K andsL L,
Martin City; Stoltze, Plum Creek
and Superior, Columbia Falls;
Kalispen Lumber, Mills Lumber
Co., American Timber Co., John
A. Slack, and Koenig Brothers,
all Kalispell; and Fred Breeder,
Jr., Creston.
Brown offered $3.50 thousand
board feet for 100000 board feet
of larch and fir, $5.65 was asked;
$3.50 thousand was also bid for
the 100000 board feet of spruce,
$5.05 was asked; 1920 a thousand,
the asking price, was bid for the
100000 board feet of alpine fir.
kOENIGs HIGH
Sealed bids were opened We'd
nesday afternoon on the Matthias
creek offering of 100000 board
feet on the Coal creek tributary
up the North Fork. Koenig Broth
.ers, Kalispell, were successful bid
ders offering $47,665 for the
stumpage compared to the mini
mum acceptable price of $6,682.
Other bidders were Birky Broth
ers, offering Sac, 482; Fred Breeder,
$44, 815.50; Stoltze' Land and Lum-
Der, $37 ,643.50; Superior Buildings,
$34,592.50; Rex Brown, $23,703.
In addition Koenigs will pay
$3.50 for slash disposal and $3.50
for stand Improvement, and build
2.8 miles of main haul and mile
of spur road.
j Remaining sale by Flathead Ma
tional Forest is June II for 81
100000 board feet on South Lost
creek in Tally Lake district.
Other spring timber sales were
StoltZe Land and Lumber Co., sue
cessful bidder on the Red Meadow
creek sale of 100000 board feet
up the North Fork offering $780,
365.50 for stumpage compared to
the minimum acceptable price of
$14,233 for stumpage. There were
eight bidders. Complete story was
in last weeks Hungry Horse News.
OTHER SALES
| Lost Creek Lumber Co., Kalis-
pell, was successful bidder June
for the 100000 board feet on
Fatty creek up the Swan offering
$103,428 for stumpage. Minimum
acceptable stumpage total was
| $22,852. There were nine bidders
Slash disposal cost was 1920 and
stand Improvement, $7,710 with
31a miles Of main haul and / mile
of reconstructed road to build. This
sale is to see a somewhat equal
volume offered by the Northern
Pacific.
i A factor in the inflated stump.
age figures is that Flathead coun-
| tvs Is per cent share of the timber
. sales will see increased income
The county last year received $72,.
900 as its share of U. S. Fores
Service receipts with $4,000 uset
for roads. Now the outlook is 70.
more. Payment depends on tn.
speed of the cut. In addition tn,
forest service receives 10 per cen
) of the total stumpage price fol
, road and trail improvement. Pay.
ment is determined by the amour
of timber removed from the forest
and not the amount sold.