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ThureJ.y, July 30, 15
Revamped Atlas
Fires Successfully
Cape Canaveral, Fla.-CP-A
revamped Atlas intercontinen
tal ballistic missile thundered
5,000 miles Tuesday nighth to
punctuate congressional quer
ies Into whether we are losing
the missile race with Russia.
It was the second straight
Atlas success after consecutive
failures. However, a minimum
of two will be necessary be
fore the huge war rocket
reaches operational readiness.
About lM hours after
launching, the Air Force an
nounced the shoot apparently
was a complete success. An
attempt was expected later to
recover a tiny data capsule
carried in the blunt "heat
sink" nose cone of the missile.
The capsule was equipped to
record technical information
about the flight.
Tuesday night's launching
gave a dramatic punch to ear
lier statements by a top Air
Force officer in Washington
that there was "no cause for
alarm" over the string of mis-
firings, ranging from Feb. 20
to June 6. The last successful
shoot was July 21.
Of every 100 hens eggs
placed in an incubator, from
10 up to two dozen fail to
hatch into chicks, but the suc
cess factor is said to be improving.
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Goals of
On June 30 the Medford
district of the bureau of land
management closed its books
on all activities for fiscal year
1959. District Manager Ross A.
Youngblood commented that
all scheduled goals were
reached, and for some projects
completion was somewhat
ahead of the target date.
The sale of timber from the
Oregon and California Revest
ed Grant Lands (O&C Lands)
and public domain lands are
big business for the fiscal year.
In fact, sale value reached an
all time district high totalling
$6,410,674.41. By far the bulk
of this value in sale of timber
came from the O&C lands, he
said. Only $153,685.80 worth
of timber was sold from the
unreserved and unappropri
ated Public Domain lands in
the Medford district.
A review of the timber sale
record shows also that de
mand for the O&C timber
stands was exceptionally good,
hence at most oral auction
sales bidding for the timbered
tracts was brisk as buyers
paid about $2,000,000 more
for the timber than it was ap
praised. The total volume sold
was 208,709 thousand board
feet, and it was appraised by
Medford BLM district apprai
ser at a value of $4,653,306.96.
Initialling Point
One interesting point is il
lustrated by the timber sale
bidding record and that the
demand for white fir logs has
sharply increased over prior
years, Youngblood said. A
short time back southern Ore
gon mills demanded pine logs
After the war this demand
shifted to Douglas-fir logs. All
this time white fir trees were
considered a woods white ele
phant or a logger's bottleneck
as in harvesting the pine or
Douglas-fir crop the white fir
trees were in the way of the
logger. Such is not presently
the case. It was also noted de
mand for other minor 'forest
trees is on the increase.
District receivable account
for 1959 shows the result of
ether district field action next
to timber sales was by district
personnel to process timber
trespass cases, and for this ac
tivity $18,732.23 was collected.
The collected value does
not represent a true picture
of total personnel time ex
pended in field and office to
process and collect a timber
cutting trespass, Youngblood
said. For many cases, the
property lines affected by the
cutting must be established.
This work is performed by
BLM cadastral survey crew.
Medford BLM district has had
a cadastral crew busy estab
lishing property corners and
running boundary or property
lines between corners in an ef
fort towards closing a number
of trespass cases. A total of
16 cases were closed last year.
The current fiscal year started
with 181 unclosed trespass
cases.
Land Office Business
A land office business in
personnel time was transacted
in renting land in the Medford
district last year. Collections,
however, were not large, al
though rating third in the to
tal amount collected, the dist
rict manager said. Rent col
lections came from grazing
leases, special use permits and
basic fees for rights-of-way.
Total rent for land collections
was $15,765.11.
The lease of land for graz
ing of livestock in the Med
ford BLM district is an impor
tant item to adjoining land
owners and thus the forage
contributes helpfully to the
ranching unit economy of the
Medford area. About 45 per
cent of Medford BLM District,
or 392,786 acres were leased
for stock grazing privileges
lats fiscal year. This acreage
provided spring, summer, and
some fall range for about
5,000 head of cattle. The acre
age is leased to 181 individuals
and grazing associations. Ren
tal for the livestock forage to
taled $11,945.24.
Collections for the use of
BLM access roads totaled
$6,725.10. As more BLM roads
are built into presently un
tapped timber stands road-use
fee collections will increase.
The fees are assessed the pri
vate commercial users of the
access roads and the fee will
continue until the private tim
ber share of the road invest
ment is amortized, he said.
Buyers of BLM timber that
use privately controlled log
ging roads likewise pay a use
fee. When the Government's
share of the construction cost
has been absorbed no fee will
be assessed licenses of gov
ernment.
For the access roads the
BLM maintains, as the Galice
Access rd., all haulers pay a
maintenance of road fee. Med
ford BLM district receivable
account disclosed that $39,
263.06 was collected. The
money goes into the road
maintenance fund and reallo
cated to bureau of public roads
which does the access road
maintenance for the BLM. .
Miscellaneous Collection
The miscellaneous collection
action totaled $385.10. This
collection is for services such
as billing fees, sale of maps,
and the like. Miscellaneous
fees like road maintenance
fees are not deposited to the
O&C account.
All other O&C collections
are deposited to the O&C fund
account, and at the end of the
fiscal year, 75 per cent of the
collections from sale of tim
ber, rent of land, sale of minor
forest products as huckleberry
brush and fern, sale of rock
and other earth construction
material, and road use fees go
to the 18 Western Oregon or
O&C land grant counties in
lieu of payment of taxes.
For the Medford district,
therefore, 75 per cent of the
receivable account totalling
$5,026,979.65 will go to the
O&C counties.
Jackson county as one of the
O&C counties gets 15.68 per
cent of the 75 per cent of gross
receipts less one-third which
is appropriated by Congress
with the consent of the O&C
counties to the O&C access
road program. Last fiscal year
Jackson county received
$1,720,960.67 in lieu of tax
payments. Collections are con
siderably above fiscal year
1958, thus all O&C counties
will receive more in lieu of
tax payment for fiscal year
1959.
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Basically, from a resource
manager's viewpoint, provid
ing for a new forest crop for
future cutting is of top impor
tance. There are three meth
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new stand of forest trees; one
is requiring a silvi-culture har
vest cut that lends itself to
best help that nature can pro
vide to regenerate the new
crop; two is to reforest, either
by planting or seeding imme
diately following harvest cut;
three is to use a combination
of the two.
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PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, MEDFORD, OREGON
rict, a sizeable reforestation
program was conducted last
fiscal year. The district
planned for and supervised
the planting of 2,068,700 seed
lings of 3,328 acres of BLM
land. Seedlings included
Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine;
moreover, 806 acres were
seeded by airplane and by
hand. Tree seeds used were
ponderosa pine, sugar pine
and Shasta red fir.
Some of the land reforested
had to have a suitable seed or
seedling bed prepared, which
for Medford district required
the removal and piling of the
brush on the tract to be re
forested. The land prepara
tion work is called scarifica
tion which consists of raking
or gouging the brush off the
land by a crawler tractor,
equipped with tooth dozer
blade, Youngblood said. This
type of treatment was done to
475 acres of BLM land.
Additional Employment
This reforestation project
not only assisted in the job of
regenerating a new crop of
trees it also provided addi
tional employment in the fall,
winter and early sprin g
months thereby bolstering
local , county economy in a
small way.
Mecfrord district BLM spent
$89,139.92 in fiscal year 1959
o n reforestation and $10,
402.50 in scarifying land
prior to planting.
The job of. inventorying or
taking stock of what is on the
BLM lands is an important
function and actually is a nev
er ending program. However,
for the first time a complete
forest inventory was finished
on Medford district lands; in
fact it was finished three
months prior to its target date
of June. 1. Hence the total job
both field and office was fin
ished for the O&C lands on
April 1.
BLM foresters found on the
O&C lands a sizeable more
volume of presently merchant
able timber, young stands of
trees growing better than was
expected, and also the cutover
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and fire killed areas were re
seeding not too unsuccessfully
with the net result that the
sustain yield annual forest
tree cutting could be increas
ed from 169.9 million board
feet to 221 million board feet
f or- Medford BLM district,
Youngblood said.
Public Domain Lands
For the public domain lands
commingled with the O&C
lands all inventory field ac
tion has been completed and
most of the office activity.
Present sustain yield allow
able . cut is 6 million board
feet. Some increase is expect
ed by the new inventory. .
The access road program
progressed along at a reason
ably good clip during the
year. The West Fork Evans
creek access road was com
pleted at a cost of about $500,
000. The Lewis River Logging
company was the contractor
and the work was under the
general supervision of Ed
Baker. Total length of the ac
cess road is about 16 miles.
The construction of the road
makes available a total vol
ume of slightly in excess of
1,000,000,000 board feet, and
around J600,000,000 board feet
of this total is situated on
tributary BLM lands. More
over, the completion of this
road makes a complete tie-in
with the Goolaway Gap forest
road, and thus it is possible
that National Forest timber
situated in the upper reaches
of the Cow Creek drainage
can come to Medford and
Grants Pass mills for pro
cessing. Road Location Surveys
A number of road location
surveys in several important
drainages were completed
during the fiscal year. Loca
tion surveys were completed
in Powell creek and Deer
creek in Josephine county,
and in West Fork Elk creek
and East Fork Evans creek in
Jackson county. The number
of miles in the surveys totals
40 miles.
All location survey work is
performed by the bureau of
public roads, which has main
tained a location survey crew
in the Medford BLM district
during the year.
Medford district engineers
determined the location of the
access road by going into the
drainage to be surveyed prior
to the arrival of the location
survey crew. The BLM engi
neers determined the location
by setting the control points,
thus BLM is assured that the
location survey and the resul
tant logging access road is
exactly constructed to get the
maximum use by loggers of
the adjacent timber.
Logging Roads
About 20 miles, of good
forest logging roads were con
structed as a condition of
BLM timber sales. The value
of the roads constructed by
BLM timber buyers amounts
to about $350,000. A number
of these roads constructed as
a condition of timber sales
are summer and fall haul
roads, and thus are not usable
for logging in the winter
months. However, a few are
winterized as a condition of
the timber sale contract so
that winter logging may be
permitted.
The May creek road in the
main Evans creek drainage
area is an example of a road
that was winterized so that
logging could be permitted
the entire year. Since one of
the requirements of the O&C
Act is that the O&C lands
must be managed on a sus
tained yield basis to contrib
ute towards community sta
bility, it is felt that to point
in this direction a reasonable
number of logging access
roads must be winterized so
that logging may be permitted
during the winter months,
Youngblood noted.
Action to determine the
status of mining claims has
increased in the Medford
BLM district during fiscal
year 1959. One of the reasons
for this is that the allowable
cut from the O&C lands has
been increased which has re
sulted in more mining claims
being found through process
of road construction and sale
layout.
Public Law 167 also has
accelerated mining validity-
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determinations on the BLM
lands. To spark .the work and
to be a help to the local
miners - in discussing their
mining problems, Stan Shep-
ard, a mining engineer, was
added to the Medford district
staff.
Easements Necessary
Before access roads can be
constructed either by the use
of appropriated funds or by
means of a condition to a
timber sale, many times ease
ments are necessary to ac
quire. This is a continuing
job as the Medford district
BLM lands are commingled
with numerous small, me
dium, and large ownerships.
Last year, 34 easements
were acquired and a number
are in the process of negotia
tion. Additionally, a number
of right-of-way agreements
were approved with adjoining
private, landowners. For the
most part the right-of-way
agreements are reciprocal in
nature and provide, under cer
tain stipulations, mutual equal
use of all roads by the private
owners of the adjoining lands
and licensees of the govern
ment. The licensees in all
cases would be purchasers of
BLM timber.
In fiscal year 1959 the
total number of fires increas
ed over immediate previous
years. However, only one fire
was of consequence, and this
fire, .known as the Bunker
creek fire, burned approxi
mately 400 acres.
Blister rust control activi
ty was conducted in the year,
and primarily on a mainten
ance basis in established blis
ter rust control units. The
control units on which ac
tivity occurred in fiscal year
1959 were in the Illinois Val
ley areas and in the Galice
Peavine area of Northwest
Josephine county.
Medford BLM district has
a 13-member advisory board
group, which met twice last
year. B. L. Nutting, general
manager of Medford Corpor
ation, is the current advisory
board chairman; he succeeded
the late S. S. (Doc) Simpson.
Training Sessions
To keep BLM personnel ap
prized of new techniques in
the appraising of timber, a
number of training sessions
were conducted last year. One
school was held outside the
district and a number of them
were held in the Medford dis
trict under - the direction of
District Appraiser F. W. Fog-elquist.
An important advance step
in timber appraising tech
niques was set up during the
year. Measuring standing
trees by log diameters and
heights on a taper-table basis
was changed to the more ac
ceptable procedure of form
class measurement of stand
ing trees.
Because of varied heights
and diameters, as is the case
of standing trees in the Med
ford BLM district, this meth
od of tree volume estimate
tends to give a more exact
measurement of the true vol
ume on each tree by log sizes.
Using this form class meas
urement of standing trees as
a beginning point, the grad
ing of the logs by the use of
external characteristics to re-
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fleet the quality, of the logs
as they actually exist in the
variable stands in the Med
ford district was revised. Be
cause the stands in the Med
ford district are so variable,
this revised method of valu-
ating the quality of the logs
in the standing trees has re
sulted in a lower stumpag
price for the less-quality tim
ber stands and ' a higher
stumpage appraisal for the
high-quality timber stands.
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