BLM District on Schedule With
Planned Projects During Year
The Medford district of the
bureau of land management
at the end of the third quarter
of calendar year 1958 is on
schedule with all its planned
projects for the year, accord
ing to District Manager Ross
A- Youngblood.
Timber sales in the district
are ahead of the schedule set
up last fall. ' Half of the in
crease in the allowable cut
for the Josephine master unit
was added onto the 1958 cal
endar timber sales plan in
July of this year. This in
creased ' the total expected
sales from 160.3 million board
feet to 185 million board feet,
he noted, but even with this
added volume the timber sales
work is on schedule.
Timber Sales Total
As of Oct. 1, timber sales
have totaled 149,212 million
board feet from O and C
lands, and 688 thousand board
feet from public domain
lands. Bidding on timber was
stronger during the third
quarter than in the1 first half
of the year, Youngblood not
ed. Buyers have paid about
$3.50 per thousand board foot
more for the timber than the
BLM appraisal. For the year
to date timber sales have tot
aled $3,583,22.23, with stump-
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age going about $24 per thou
sand board feet.
Cutting on BLM contracts
has about paced actual sales.
This fact is illustrated by col
lections which are received in
proportion to the rate of cut
of the timber. Bureau timber
sale regulations do not re
quire the buyer of BLM tim
ber to pay for the entire vol
ume on a lump sum basis, he
said. '
Installment Basis
Payments may be extended
on an installment basis over
a two-year period. Payments
are collected to keep about
abreast of cutting. Since col
lections as of Oct. 1 for the
year totals $3,057,647.44, the
value shows that the rate of
cut is close to actual sales
value.
The rate of cut since July
this year has accelerated in
comparison to the first half
of the calendar year because
for the third quarter (July,
August, September) collec
tions total $1,446,792.37, or al
most half of the total collec
tions for the past nine-month
period. The rate of cut is nor
mal for this time of the year
as we all know the summer
months is the main timber
harvest season in this logging
area.
The Medford bureau of
land management district has
had some minor sales. Minor
forest sales consist of huckle
berry brush, Oregon grape,
Port Orford cedar boughs,
posts-, shale and other forms
of rock. Value of this material
sold to date for calendar year
1958 is $275.
Rents-of-Land
Rents - of - land, principally
special' use permits charges,
grazing use fees, right-of-way
permit fees, road mainten
ance fees, accounted for $6,i
861.85 of the quarterly col
lections. Total collections for
the' first nine months ending
Oct. 1 in the rent-of-land cate
gory were $34,373.74, Young
blood said.
Trespass, mostly timber,
payments for this quarter ac
counted for $12,230.52. Little
trespass collection was noted
until this past quarter, he said.
Much activity can be ac
counted for in the Medford
Forest district in the field of
reforestation. Scarification of
the soil is the job of readying
the non-forested tracts for
planting. This work normally
includes removal of brush and
snag felling.
To date for 1958, 3,115
acres have been scarified
through competitive contracts
and now these acres are ready
for planting or seeding. A
sizeable sum of $57,176.80 has
been obligated to private in
dividuals and companies so
far in 1958. Julius Purvine of
Corvallis was the main bidder
on the soil scarification work.
Most of the reforestation
activity in the district has
been confined to this quarter,
as out of the $50,689.79 obli
gated S42,954.16 in reforesta
tion contracts were awarded
this quarter, he noted. Most
of the successful bidders on
the reforestation jobs are not
local.
Another activity on the
BLM Medford district area
this quarter was forest fires.
Almost all the fires were caus
ed by lightning. There were
40 fires on BLM lands this
year, mostly all this quarter.
Fire ran through 565 BLM
acres, and it is estimated that
merchantable timber was
damaged close to a value of
$10,000. The damaged timber
is in an inaccessible area, how
ever, every possibility for
salvaging the damaged tract
is being explored.
During the past quarter
Medford District inventory
foresters have completed field
type mapping and establish
ment of the scheduled per
manent sample plot' in the
North Jackson county area.
Field Type Mapping
Field type mapping in the
South Jackson county area
and in Klamath county is
scheduled for completion on
Nov. 1. About half of the per
manent sample plots will be
set by the end of the year
Target date for the entire
District inventory job is July
1, 1959. More foresters were
reassigned to this phase of
the district program the last
half of the last quarter in an
effort to provide a margin of
safety. The only unknown ele
ment that may prevent the
building of the margin is
weather, Youngblood said.
Right-of-way clearing is
about finished on the West
Fork Evans creek access road
project by Lewis River Log
ging company. Ausland Con
struction, the sub-contractor
on four bridges and two cul
verts on the Evans creek proj
ect, has started all the struc
tures. ' '; "'
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Bridge Completed
Q. L. Rufener, Inc. of Port
land has completed the Snow
,creek bridged which will serve
a large block of BLM timber
and also a large block of BLM
National Forest timber. . The
Whitehorse Creek bridge,
which is a part of the Rufener
contract, is about 98. per cent
completed, Youngblood said
Bureau of public roads
crews during this period fin
ished location survey on the
West Fork of Elk creek, Salt
creek, and the Cantrall bridge
on the Applegate river near
Ruch. This quarter BLM loca
tion survey crew started road
location -survey on the last
segment of the Galice access
road in the Northwest Jose
phine Master Unit,
Several right-of-way ease-
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Programs Talked
By Sites Group
The board of directors of
the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites
Foundation, at the October
meeting recently, discussed a
series of television programs
and heard a report on the
Britt gardens.
The television programs
will be of an educational na
ture, the board said, and will
Jse sponsored by courtesy of
station KBES-TV. They will
be scheduled early this win
ter. '
Dr. Elmo Stevenson, presi
dent of Southern Oregon col
lege, who ' presided at the
meeting, stressed the signific
ance of historic Jacksonville
as well as other important
sites in southern Oregon. May
or John F. Keaveny of Jack
sonville expressed the desires
of leaders of Jacksonville in
giving support to a well-planned
restoration program.
Henry Galey of Ashland re
ported on numerous sites in
the Ashland area. .
In addition to Dr. Steven
son,. Keaveny and Galey, oth
ers attending the meeting in
cluded Jacksonville Council
men E. O. Graham and E. H.
Ravenor, Charles Young,
Jacksonville chairman of the
Centennial commission, E. W.
Hannen, chairman of ... the
Jacksonville planning com
mission, and Rudie Tetrault.
Dr. Wilson Named
To Publicity Job
Dr. Frank Wilson of Med
ford has been appointed chair
man of the publicity commit
tee for the Jackson County
Centennial ' association. He
will assume his duties im
mediately. ..
County Coordinator Ernie
Hood announced the appoint
ment late last week after a
meeting with Dr. Wilson and
Jennings Pierce.
Dr. Wilson will head a com
mittee composed of Russ Jam
ison, Pierce,- Don McNeil and
several citizen volunteers. The
county coordinator will act
as liasion with other groups
in the county who wish to
publicize events.
ments were purchased this
past quarter. The arrange
ments have tremendously as
sisted in preparing the timber
sale program for the next year
in the Medford BLM district.
Good progress in negotiations
has ' been reached in getting
easements for the Keno access
fd., the district manager said.
Favorable negotiations were
completed with several' pri
vate timber organizations in
the matter of working out mu
tual acceptable road construc
tion and road use rights1.
Advisory Board Meeting
The Medford district advis
ory board met early in the
quarter to consider Young
blood's proposal to . add 25
million board feet of timber
to the current year's timber
sale program and to review
district progress on the year's
program.
The merits of the proposal
were discussed readily by the
board, with a recommendation
that the extra volume be in
cluded with the 160.3 million
board feet already .reviewed
by the advisory board the pre
vious fall. After getting appro
val of the Oregon state super
visor, - the 25 million board
feet were added to the dis
trict sale plan.
The. Medford district of the
BLM completed its planned
blister rust , control program
in the quarter. District blister
rust personnel work in this
quarter was confined to
checking on the ribes eradi
cation by prjvate contractors.
District personnel were also
utilized in finding and isolat
ing blister rust disease resis
tant sugar pine trees. Some
sugar pine reconnaissance
work' was accomplished,
Youngblood pointed out.
A rough draft on an 18
month timber sale plan was
prepared by unit foresters
and is being reviewed by the
district manager's staff. The
sale plan has included the
full increase of allowable cut
in the Josephine Master Unit
which is 102 million board
feet, compared to the previous
allowable cut of 46.8 million
board feet.
Any inquiries concerning
the program of the Medford
district should be directed to
the district office at city hall
in Medford;. Younblood said.
Pickle Plant Fire
'Looks Like Arson'
Portland-OIPD-Deputy State
Fire Marshal John F. Pickle
said a fire , which burned
through a pickle plant here
early Friday "looks like ar
son.": The blaze caused an esti
mated $100,000 damage to the
Fred Yeager & Sons plant.
Firemen have reported sev
eral suspected arson cases
here recently. "
The madrona tree of British
Columbia, , unlike other hard
woods, - keeps ' its - foliage, all
winter.
Memorial Volumes Are
Placed in Library Here
Honoring the memory of
the late Mrs. Charlotte R. Col
lins, her family has placed
several memorial volumes in
the Jackson County library.
Because 'Mrs. Collins ' so
much enjoyed sharing her
love of books with her chil
dren and her grandchildren
in the junior as well as in the
adult departments of the li
brary , the family has suggest
ed that their cash donation be
divided among b o o k s for
adults and books for children.
Books chosen to memorial
ize Mrs. Collins in the chil
dren's collection were added
copies of the titles selected
this year as the most .distin
guished contributions to chil
dren's literature and illustra
tion. These are the Newberry
award-winner, "Rifles for Wa
tie," by Harold Keith, and
Caldecott award - winner,
"Time of Wonder," by Robert
McCloskey. '
An unusually fine edition
of the complete works of Wil
liam Shakespeare has been se
lected for the library's litera
ture collection in memory of
Mrs. Collins.
This edition, the Players Il
lustrated Edition in three vol
umes, is distinguished from
all others in that it is embel
lished ' with . photographs of
giving artists in Shakespeare
an roies. in inai sense, xne
editors believe, it helps to
keep Shakespeare alive . and
.to show, too, that the major
Shakespearean roles can be
really , well played by quite
young artists. It is their pur
pose to encourage young peo
ple to enjoy and participate
in the production of Shakespeare.
Prospect Class Visits
Mail Tn'burie Plant
Six members of the Pros
pect Journalism class visited
the Mail Tribune office and
plant Friday afternoon.
They were Pat Lull, Donna
McElmurry, Jo Ann Yates,
Roma Shafer, Hanna Smith
and Joyce Ring. ; '
In 1930, Sinclair Lewis be
came the first American to
win the Nobel prize for literature.
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Jury Deadlocked In Slabbing Trial
Portland-flJPD-A dead-locked
jury was dimissed Friday
afternoon after it was unable
to return a verdict in the stab
bing trial of - Phyllis Torchy
Jessing.
Miss Jessing ' was accused
of stabbing her boy friend,
Alfred E. Kiefer.. .
Circuit Judge Frank J.
Lonergan dismissed the jury
at 4 p.m. after it had deliber
ated for five and one . half
hours.
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