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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1959)
s MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. Unity, Jon 14. 1939 Continuing TrendTo Heavy Bidding Noted at Auction A continuing trend of heavy bidding was noticable at an oral auction timber sale Thurs day at the Medford district office of the bureau of land management. . The bureau offered and sold nine tracts containing an estimated 24,993,000 board feet of timber for a total price of $833,087.15. The tracts were located throughout the Med ford district in Jackson, Jose phine, Klamath and Douglas counties. Bid prices for Douglas-fir, which was the major species on six tracts ranged from $34.25 -per thousand board feet board feet to $50 per thousand. On the three tracts ' in which white fir was the major species, the bid prices were $12, $25 and $2rJ.25 per thousand board feet. Douglas County Tracts The two tracts in Douglas county -were purchased by Caveman Lumber company of Wolf Creek and Patterson Lumber company of Glendale. Caveman Lumber company bid $51,696.90 for a tract of 1,111,000 board feet on Russell creek near Azalea.. They com peted with four other bidders for the tract. -- m ptiiiiii HAL GARDENER Division Chairman Section Heads for Service Division Of UMC Named Harold W. (Hal) Gardner, chairman of the service divi sion of the 1959 United Med ford Crusade, has announced completion of the appointment of section heads for his di vision. Serving as heads for the UMC service division will be Al Carpenter, assistant divi sion chairman; Bill Luman, amusements; Ed Barnett, com munications; Floyd Hart, gen eral insurance; Tom Teutsch, life insurance; Douglas Pic kelL real estate; Max Weston, hotels and motels; Clifford Proctor, transportation; Al Bradford, barbers; Kern L. Gibson, hairdressers; Larry Schaecher, cafes; John Dumas, laundries and dry - cleaners; Richard Miller, finance; Floyd Brownlee, taverns; and Oral Freemyer, utilities. The service division, one of the largest in the UMC, is responsible for more than $26, 000 in the 1959 fund-raising campaign which begins Sept. 14. The section heads are now recruiting solicitors. The ap pointments will be announced as they are completed. According to - Campaign Chairman Del Landing, chair men have now been appointed for all but one UMC division. Gardner is the first to com plete appointments to all sec tion head posts. "' " - The 31-year-old Gardner is the youngest man to be given the responsibility of chairman ship' of a UMC division, ac cording to Landing. , He was born in Bend, and attended Willamette universi ty. He has been employed by the California Oregon Power company for 10 years as a special accountant, is a mem ber of the Medford Elks club and the Medford Junior Cham ber of Commerce. He and his wife, Genevieve, live at 3456 Hollywood ave., Medford. According to Landing, it is hoped that all workers for the 1959 UMC campaign will be , organized by the end of June. Patterson Lumber company was the higher of two bidders competing for a tract of 3,497, 000 board feet near Trappers cabin. The high bid was $115, 297.30 for the tract. Bate Lumber . company of Merlin and A.'C. Smith Log ging company of Wolf Creek were successful bidders for the two tracts in Josephine coun ty. The tract purchased by Bate Lumber company for $66,922.15 contains 1,567,000 board feet near the headwa ters of Jump Off Joe creek. Grave Creek Sale The 100,000 board feet pur chased by..A. C. Smith Log ging company for $4,620.60! is located on upper Grave creek. The four, tracts in Jackson county were, purchased by Loyd Silva of Grants -Pass, Lithia Lumber company of Ashland and Kogap Manufac turing company of Medford. Lithia Lumber company purchased one tract containing 3,083,000 board feet on Sar dine creek and a. second con taining 4,437,000 board eet near Pilot Rock. The high bids were $98,481.45 and $155,223. 10 respectively for the tracts. The bids for Douglas-fir' for the two sales represented both the lowest and the highest bids of the sale. The Sardine Creek sale brought $34.25 per thousand board feet for Douglas-fir and the Pilot Rock tract brought $50 per thousand. The Pilot Rock tract also repre sented the highest bid for white fir at $26.25 per thous and. The tract purchased . by Loyd Silva contains 6,130,000 board feet on the Butte Falls Prospect rd. The purchase price, which was the highest offer of five bidders was $225, 816.80. Submits Only Bid ' Kogap Manufacturing com pany submitted the only bid for a tract of 3,756,000 board feet in the Dead Indian area. The bid was $75,013.55. This was the only tract for which there were no competing bids. The Klamath county tract consisted of 1,312,000 board feet near Buck Lake. It was purchased by Chiloquin Tim ber company of Klamath Falls for $40,015.30. The last sale of the,, fiscal year for the Medford district of the bureau will be held at the district office June 25 and will' cnosist of 10 tracts con taining 24,191,000 board feet appraised at $613,121.20. Eight of the tracts are located in Jackson county and one each in Josephine and Doug las counties. Additional infor mation regarding the proposed sales may be secured from the bureau offic located atCoutJ Riverside av. grid B&rnett rd., Medford. Core Wood SPECIAL o Lfcjfed Tfca 24 to 28 Inch Length, .Unsafe -v Big $12.00 Load F.O.B. MEDFORD CO.-,;. : Phone" SP 2-808 ' S TIMBER PRODUCTS COMPANY i LIKES OLD SYSTEM Atlanta (UPD-You'll have a hard time convincing Georgia Gov; E r n e s t Vandiver that "missile mail" is faster than conventional air mail. 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