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Good Weather Gives
For Continued Work
Land use activities were
heavy on lands administered
by the Medford district of the
bureau of land management
j during the last calendar quar
ter of 1959, according to Dis
trict Manager Ross A. Young
blood. The sale of timber tracts
and the harvesting of the
timber on many of the tracts
vibrated along at a fast clip.
According to the three-month
period record, a total of 16
tracts of BLM was offered for
oral auction bidding.
Well Distributed
The bureau of land man
agement appraised the 31,
793,000 board feet on the 16
tracts at $838,184.90. A num
ber of interested bidders
thought otherwise about this
price, because the tally book
for the last quarter period
for 1959 revealed that about
a one-third increase was of
fered for the timber, totaling
$1,171,787.15. The highest bid
price for pine was $65 per
thousand board feet, and the
highest for Douglas-fir was
$51.
Sales of timbered tracts
were well distributed
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principal of Ruch school, and Francis
Guidry, right, principal of Jacksonville
school, display United Medford Crusade
plaques awarded for 100 per cent partici
pation in the UMC. Second from right is
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throughout the Medford dis
trict, as seven tracts are lo
cated in Josephine county,
three in Jackson county, two
in Klamath county, and four
in Douglas county. The larg
est volume sold was situated
in Jackson county. The aver
age volumn per tract' for the
16 tracts was 1,917,000 board
feet.
The total of all collections
for this same period, amount
ing to $1,153,038.80, was
about equal to the bid price
of the timber sold. Collec
tions for the sale of timber
totaled $1,135,776.31.
A review of the district
harvesting record, or timber
cutting reports, discloses that
logging of timber from the
tracts was inordinately heavy
for the three-month period.
Since the late fall and early
winter weather was good, log
ging activity continued at a
rapid pace, which, in compari
son to the average year for
the same period, revealed that
total woods activity was
above normal, Youngblood
noted.
Collections for the same
three-month period in 1958
Sixth and
Opportunity
on BLM Land
for all activities showed only
$767,206.77.
Compares Years
Youngblood compared cal
endar year 1958 collections
with calendar year 1959 col
lections to determine if the
upward trend was consistent.
The record showed the up
ward trend was about the
same, or specifically, collec
tions for calendar year 1959
were about double that of
1958. The increase is partly
the result of the increase in
the allowable .cut from the
O and C lands, and partly be
cause of the consumer de
mand for wood products in
1959.
In timber sales activity, the
Medford BLM office met its
planned goal for the last quar
ter of 1959. It was unable,
however, to erase as many
timber trespass cases as was
planned. Collections from
trespass cases during the pe
riod tallied at $2,258.10. De
mands were made on the tres
passers for three cases in
Jackson county and one in
Josephine county having a to
tal value of $2,683.05.
Trespass cases are not tal-
Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, superintendent
of Medford schools, and Del Landing,
campaign chairman of the 1959 UMC. All
schools in the Medford district have re
ceived plaques for participation in the
UMC. (Knackstedt photo).
Central
lied until all field activity is
perform ed or the case is ac
tually closed; however, the
district time record showed
for this period that a good
number of man hours were
used in trespass investigation.
A number of above-normal
size trespass cases are pres
ently being investigated.
Road Maintenance
Road maintenance fee col
lections.for this period totaled
$16,985.54, and over $15,000
of this total was for mainte
nance fees on the Galice BLM
federal access road.
Road maintenance fees are
not accounts receivable col
lections; this money goes back
into a fund used to maintain
the access roads. Likewise,
there are miscellaneous col
lections from the sale of maps,
court costs and the like that
are not accounts receivable
collections.
All other collections on O
and C land activities are ac
counts receivable collections,
and are distributed to the O
and C counties in lieu of tax
es in accordance with the for
mula provided for in the O
and C Act of Aug. 28, 1937.
The formula provides for dis
tributing to the 18 O and C
counties 75 per cent of the
gross receipts.
Each county's share in the
75 per cent of gross receipts
is computed on a percentage
arrangement using the as
sessed valuation of O and C
lands in each county as of
1915 to the total valuation
of all O and C lands for the
same year. Douglas county,
having the largest acreage of
O and C lands, has the largest
percentage, 25.11; Jackson
county comes next with 15.68
per cent, followed by Jose
phine county with 12.02 per
cent. Although not having the
smallest percentage of the 18
counties, Klamath county's
share is only 2.39 per cent.
Access Road Account
With the approval of the
O and C counties, Congress
has appropriated one-third of
the 75 per cent to the O and C
access road account. This ap
propriated money is used for
the construction of federal ac
cess roads into the O and C
forests. The completion of the
Galice access road in north
west Josephine county has fa
cilitated the offering of the
allowable cut in the north
ern part of that county. The
completion of other access
roads in Jackson and Klam
ath counties will further fa
cilitate the offering and mar
keting of the O and C allow
able cut.
District personnel in the Oc
tober-through-December peri
od obtained easements, sur
veyed, and prepared maps for
the Medford district's access
road projects1. Presently un
der bureau of public road con
tract is the construction of
the Cantrall bridge near
Ruch, the construction of the
Thompson Creek bridge in
the Illinois Valley district of
south Josephine county, and
the topping with crushed rock
the West Fork of Evans Creek
access road.
Finalizing Medford district
action has been just about
completed in the getting of
the Keno access road in south
east Jackson county and
northwest Klamath county
ready for advertising for bids
This road, when completed,
will open up a large block of
virgin O and C old-growth
timber totaling about 650,
000,000 board feet. When the
road is completed, it will be
27 V2 miles long and will be
a through route from Dead
Indian to Keno.
Galice Access Road
Finishing touches have been
completed on 7Vi miles of
new construction to extend
the Galice access road. The
project is expected to .be ad
vertised soon after the snow
melts, or as soon as the bid
ders can inspect the job.
Work on plans is just about
completed on the Deer Creek
BLM access road in south Jo
sephine county. It is antici
pated this road will be adver
tised for bids in March.
Two other access roads lo
cated in Jackson cunty are
earmarked for construction in
1960. They are Salt Creek,
which is a tributary to Little
Butte creek, and the West
Branch of Elk creek. All ease
ment arrangements for the
roads have not been made as
yet.
For the October-December
period, 11 road easements
were acquired, including one
by condemnation. . Also for
this same period, four right-
of-way agreements with four
separate timber or lumber
companies were completed. It
is estimated that the acquir
ing of these 11 easements and
the completion of the four
right-of-way agreements have
made 948,000,000 board feet
of BLM timber accessible for
harvesting on a sustained-harvest
cutting basis.
Prior to this, the volume
was blocked by lack of access.
It is the policy of the bureau
of land management to make
1 C MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
1U Sunday, Jan. 17, 1960
all sales of timber offered on
the market for bidding equal
ly accessible to all bidders.
Mining Claim Activity
Three men have been work
ing steadily making prelimi
nary field examinations for
mining claims, as provdied un
der Public Law 167 of Au
gust, 1955. Four townships, to
taling about 80,000 acres re
ceived preliminary treatment
in the October-through-December
period.
While goals and target dates
in most activities have been
achieved or exceeded in this
reporting period, the district
manager reported such has
not been the case in the re
forestation activity. Mainly
the shortage of forest seedling
planting stock has hampered
the district from meeting this
planned commitment. A small
loss of seedlings by an ammo
nia leak in a local cold stor
age warehouse added a little
more "discombooberation" to
Medford distrit reforestation
plans, Youngblood said.
Two procedures are in use
in the Medford district to ac
tivate the planting of seed
lings on cutover forest lands
-by bid contracts and by the
terms or conditions of timber
sale contracts. First priority
for seedlings go to BLM tim
ber sale contracts. Fifteen bid
contracts were let for the
planting of 720,000 seedlings
on 1,300 acres. A total of 765
acres were planted in this pe
riod by BLM timber sale pur
chasers. Two bid contracts
were let to seed 314 acres.
Scarification
Not all logged-over or
burned-over land can be re
forested without readying the
tracts for seeding or planting,
Readying the tracts for plant
ing is called "scarification,"
which includes brush eradica
tion or, in some cases, harrow
ing the soil much as the farm
er does in preparing his fields
for seeding grain. In this pe
riod 483 aares were readied by
scarifying so they could be
planted by early this spring
The actual planned goal
for reforestation in this cur
rent planting season, which
ends about April 1, is 2,500
acres. The lack of seedlings
may prevent the attainment
of this goal.
There is an upward trend
in occupancy tresspasses on
the BLM lands in the Medford
district. The increase in pop
ulation trend in southern Ore
gon may have a direct bear
ing on this type of trespass,
according to Youngblood.
Reserved for Timber
The O and C lands, by con
gressional law, are reserved
for the continuous produc
tion and harvest of forest
crops. Where the O and C
lands can be classified for in
dividual leasing, homesites
are permitted. Since the high
est multiple use cannot be
achieved by individual leas
ing of tracts for homesite
purposes, low preference is
given to this type of use.
The pressure is greatest on
BLM lands fronting on the
Rogue river. Public Land
Order No. 1726, which with
drew these lands for recrea
tional use by the general pub
lic, prevents mining claims
generally, and makes home
site leasing almost impossible.
Germany Subject of
College Program
Ashland - Southern Oregon
college will present Neil
Douglas Jan. 18 in the
Churchill hall auditorium at
10 a.m. in a film lecture ti
tled, "This is Germany," a full
length color motion picture.
The film shows advances of
the most prosperous nation in
Europe and delineates clearly
the troubled situation in East
and West Berlin.
To get his pictures for
"This is Germany," Douglas
has studied the peoples of
every part of the Western
German nation for nine years
and by constant contact has
kept his information current.
This film shows the story of
Berlin separated with all its
political implications for the
United States and the rest of
the world.
BREAK FOR LIFERS
Jackson, Miss. -(UPD- Missis
sippi Gov.-elect Ross Barnett
chose eight Negro convicts
all serving life terms for murder-to
begin work today as
servants at the governor's
mansion.
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Simpson Attends Portland Session
Ashland-Hugh 'G; Simpson,
director of information at
Southern Oregon college, Fri
day attended a public rela
tions meeting in Portland
called by Dr. John R. Rich
ards, chancellor of the state
board of higher education.
The meeting, a SOC spokes
man said, was in regard to the
public relations program to be
carried out by the state sys
tem of higher education's var
ious agencies concerning a
measure, "State Bonds for
Higher Education Facilities,"
which is slated for next No
vember's ballot.
SOC President Dr. Elmo
Stevenson told a gathering
Wednesday that the ifeasure
would cost the taxDavers
nothing, yet is something
which Oregon education
"can't afford to lose."
The measure, which passed
the last legislature without a
dissenting vote, is self-liqui
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dating but educators fear it
may be misunderstood or con
fused with other issues.
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livery. More than an acre of used cars, too.
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Convictions in 7959 Highest in History
Salem -(UPD- Some 181,405
motorists were convicted in
1959 of violating various Ore
gon traffic laws-the highest
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