Record Volume of Timber Sold
In Bedford District This Year
The Medford district of the
bureau of land management
sold a record-breaking 133,
726,000 board feed of O. and
C. timber during fiscal year
1958, according to Ross A.
Youngblood, district manager.
Timber sale during April,
May and June accounted for
80,596,000 board feet of the
total, with the pak monthly
volume of 62,858,000 board
feet in June. Yearly sales vol
umes have increased steadily
in the Medford district dur
ing the p9st four years. The
volume for fiscal years 1958
represents a 10,000,000 board
foot increase over the volume
sold during the previous year.
. Youngblood attributed the
increased interest in district
timber sales, evident sine
January, to a stronger lumber
market. He noted that the
113.513,000 board feet of
timber sold since January
was the highest vojume of
timber ever sold by the dis
trict during a comparable pe
riod. Public Domain Land
In addition ft the volume
of timber sold from the dis
trict O. and C. lands, a vol
ume of 3,503,000 board feet
was sold from public domain
lands. District records are
kept separately for the two
classifications of land since
the formulae by which the
federal government shares
receipts with the local gov
ernment are different for O.
and C. and public domain
lands.
The value of the O. and C.
. timber sold during fiscal year
1958 was $3,223,318.16. This
was approximately $250,000
less than the total selling
price of $3,470,777.53 for the
timber sold during fiscal year
1937.
. BLM timber sale regula
tions do not require the pur
chaser of bureau timber to
pay for the entire volume on
a lump-sum basis.. Payments
may be extended on an in
stallment basis over a two
year period.
Total Collections
Total collections made by
the district office" during
April, May and Jdhe were
$1,302,641.02. This represent
ed approximately one-third of
the $3,187,830.46 collected
during fiscal year 1958.
. Collections for timber sales
always the largest item of
the district collections, in-
j creased from $259,530.05 in
April to $581,411.45 in June
for a total of $1,280,261,05 for
the period. This increase cor
responded to increasingly fa
vorable logging weather and
the stronger market. Receipts
from O. and C. timber sales
amounted to $1,273,808.25 of
the total timber sale collec
tions for this period.
Rente - of - land, principally
special land use permit charg
es, grazing fees and right-of-
way permit fees, accounted
for $6,955.75 of the quarterly
collections. Charges for tim
ber trespasses accounted for
another $1,597.20.
Awarded Contracts
The Medford district award
ed contracts for soil scarifica
tion, or preparation for seed-
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Himself Later
Portland (UPI) One man
is dead and a woman was re
ported in "extremely critical"
condition in a Portland hos
pital Saturday as the result of
an attempted murder-suicide
in tne t ourth Avenue hotel
here Friday night. '
Virginia A. Lee, 32, of Port
land was shot in the left side
Friday night as she combed
her hair, city police said.
The man, Lester M. Gibson,
52, shot the woman in his
hotel room and then killed
himself with a .32 caliber Colt
automatic, police said, after
they had been drinking and
then had gone to his room to
pack his bags for a trip to the
Seattle Marine hospital.
Smokes Cigarette
The woman told officers
that she had smoked a cigar
ette in the room and then got
up to comb her hair when Gib
son walked to his suitcase,
opened it and took out the
gun.
"I have a present for you,"
Gibson said, and shot her, she
told police.
She was knocked to the
floor by the impact. He then
came over and shoved the gun
into her face and pulled the
trigger again, but the gun
jammed and failed to go off,
she said.
As he attempted to get it
unjammed, she got up and ran
down' to the desk where the
clerk called police.
Apparently Gibson shot
himself through the heart
while the woman ran for
help, investigating officers
said.. He was dead when po
lice arrived.
Gibson had checked into the
hotel Wednesday. He . pre
viously worked on a U. S.
corps of engineers dredge in
California and was on his way
to the Seattle hospital, officers
said. -. ;:
Plants have ingenious
means of getting enough sun
light. Some mosses in dimly
lit places grow a covering of
clear cells that act as focusing
lenses to gather the meager
light and concentrate it in the
chlorophyll.
ing, on three tracts totaling
738 acres during the fourth
quarter of fiscal year 1958.
Two of these tracts were in
the Chase mountain area of
Klamath county. The third
was in the Butte Falls area of
Jackson county. All' were
scenes of old forest fires
which had denuded the land
of commercial forest cover,
thereby allowing brush and
weed-species of trees to in
vade. Julius E. Purvine of Cor
vallis was the successful bid
der on all three tracts. The
contract prices for the tracts
near Chase mountain, involv
ing areas of 419 acres and
214 acres, were $2.40 per
acre and $22.40 per acre re
spectively. The Butte Falls
tract, 105 acres, was contract
ed at $30 per acre. The total
contract price was $18,167.20.
This scarification contract
completed the district reha
bilitation program for the fis
cal year. The program was
initiated on a large scale dur
ing fiscal year 1958 through
the use of $900,000 made
avaiable by the 18 O. and C.
counties of Oregon from their
share of the receipts from
timber sales on O. and C.
lands.
Scarification Contracts
, The Medford district award
ed contracts for the scarifica
tion of 1,849 acres during fis
cal year 1958 at a total cost
of $50,455.80. Some scarifica
tion projects have already
been completed. Others have
started, or soon will start. All
1,849 acres will be reforested
during fiscal year 1959.
In addition to sacrification
projects, the district contract
ed snag falling projects on
1,874 acres during the fiscal
years. These projects required
the fall of approximately
5,690 snags. Snag falling gen
erally preceded scarification
on brush areas where snags
were numerous; snag falling
also preceded one reforestation-project.
Snags are felled as a safety
precaution to protect men
working in the area on scari
fication or reforestation proj
ects and as a measure to re
duce fire hazard in costly
plantations. Snags attract
lightning, a principal cause of
Medford district fires. They
also aid in the spread of "go
ing fires by throwing sparks
ahead of the fire fighters.
Plant Seedlings
The Medford district plant
ed 242,670 Douglas-fir seed
lings and 303,629 ponderosa
pine seedlings by reforesta-
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Naples, Italy (UPI) Shah
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of
Iran escaped uninjured Friday
night when his borrowed
yacht rammed and sank a
gravel-laden schooner outside
Ischia Harbor. .
The Shah borrowed the 120-
ton yacht Sereno of Italian
publisher and movie producer
Engelo Rizzoli to visit Ischia
Island shortly after his arrival
here aboard the liner Indepen
dence from the United States.
The collision happened
while the yacht was returning
to Naples. The 54-ton motor-
equipped sailing vessel Senti
nella went down within min
utes after the crash. Its cap
tain and seven-man crew were
picked up by nearby boats.
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tion contracts - during fiscal
year 1958 at a cost of $16,
602.40. Direct seeding or seed
spotting of Douglas-fir, pon
derosa pine, and sugar pine
seed was used to reforest
1,159 acres by reforestation
contract at a cost of $6,065.51.
Timber sale contractors re
forested another 319 acres of
O and C land under terms of
bureau timber sale contracts.
During the past quarter,
Medford district reforestation
foresters completed an inven
tory of the unproductive for
est land in the district in an
effort to determine the size
of the 'back-log'1 of land to
be reforested in the next few
year.
Program Instituted
The program was instituted
as part of a reforestation in
ventory designed to study the
reforestation need in the five
O and C forest districts. Plans
are being made for the re
forestation of approximately
3,500 acres in the Medford
district during fiscal year
1959 at a cost of approxi
mately $65,000. The O and C
counties have made $500,000,
available to the bureau of re
reforestation in the five O and
C districts during fiscal year
1959.
The Medford district com
pleted basic field and office
work on the forest inventory
of the Josephine master unit
which includes all the O and
C and public domain land in
Josephine county. This will
result in an increased allow
able cut for the bureau lands
in the unit. Forest inventory
of the district lands in Jack
son and Klamath counties will
be completed by July, 1959.
Forest inventory on the
Medford district involves the
construction of maps of the
area showing timber types by
species and age, roads, drain
ages, and section corners.
These maps are constructed
from aerial photographs in
terpreted by skilled foresters.
Permanent Sample Plots
Volume and growth data
for the forest land being in
ventoried is measured through
a system of permanent sample
plots comparable to systems
used by the U.S. forest serv
ice and private companies
with active forest inventory
programs. Thus the district
not only collects growth and
volume data necessary for bet
ter management on its own
lands. It also can pool its data
with those of other agencies
for an analysis of the forest
problems of the entire north
west. Work has begun on the
West Fork of Evans Creek Ac
cess road during the fourth
quarter of fiscal year " 1958.
The 16-mile reconstruction
contract was awarded to the
Lewis River Logging company
at Vancouver early in 'June.
The project is part of the
access road program of the
bureau, supported both by
federal appropriations and by
funds made available to the
bureau by the O and C coun
ties from their share of the
timber sale receipts.
Raises Timber Value
A well developed system
of access roads raises the val
ue of timber tributary to the
roads, and makes timber avail
able to small operators who
cannot afford the expense of
extensive road construction.
A contract for the construc
tion of a bridge on the White
horse Creek Access road and
one on the Snow Creek Ac
cess road was awarded to Q.
L. Rufener, Inc., of Portland
for a contract price of $64,
470.50. The bridges are be
ing constructed under the
bureau access road program.
District work plans have
been completed for fiscal year
1959. They feature an in
creased timber sale volume
in anticipation of a new al
lowable cut based on comple
tion of the forest inventory
program. The district reforest
ation program will also be ac
celerated during the coming
year. This stepped-up program
is necessary so that the back
log of unproductive land sur
veyed in the recent reforesta
tion inventory program can
be put into production.
The district work plans for
fiscal year 1959 place a heavy
emphasis on development
planning. Well - devloped
plans, which include project
ed access road systems and
schedules for the harvest of
tirrjber, are essential to a con
tinuous, flow of timber from
a forest unit. Development
plans for the entire Medford
district will be completed
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trict of -the BLM should be
direct to the district office at
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