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8 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. SUNDAY, JULY 10, I0BO Three ' Three records in the field of timber sales were broken during fiscal year 1960 which ended June 30 in the Modford district of the bureau of land management, Ross A. Young blood, district manager, has ; announced. v The timber sale summary i he said, showed that one of the records was tn the offer ing of timber for bidding; the total volume oirerea was zm, 707,000 board feet. ; The volume sold, however, was slightly less than this figure, or 236,131.000 board feet. This was a record high of timber sold in any one sin gle fiscal year for the bureau of land manngement, Medford district office. The value received for the timber sold was $8,178,906.56. This also is a record high for the Medford district office, Youngblood said. It exceeds the value of the offerings of one year ago by about $3,000, 000, and it exceeds the value of the offerings made in 1958 by approximately $5,000,000. Third Record The third record achieved was In the collection, which result from the cutting of the timber sold, he said. These collections totaled $6,105,141 .31, compared to one year ago of $4,985,288.71. The value : trend in the BLM Medford district timber is on the up- ' grade, Youngblood noted. Generally, throughout the year keen interest was noted in all BLM timber sales. For the first time interest was broad throughout the entire district from Glendale to Klamath Falls, Bidding at all , sales was brisk, with this tempo of interest prevailing throughout the 12-month pe riod, he noted. The principal volume offer ed in this record year was Douglas-fir, but the high bid ( for the year was captured by ! the ponderosa pine at $65.75. The highest bid for the Doug las fir was $55.60. The aver age price bid for the 236,131,- 000 sold was about $35.50. The volume sold was offer ed in 76 tracts, 30 of which were in Josephine county, 28 in Jackson county, six in Klamath county, and 12 in Douglas county. Average Per Tract " The offerings per tract av eraged out 2,941,000 board feet. The largest volume sold In a single sale totaled approx imately 12,000,000 board feet, Youngblood said. : While no actual tally Was made, it is surmised that most of the volume was purchased by lumber concerns In the Bogue Valley area. The larg est offering of approximately 12,000,000 board feet went to the Bate Lumber company at Merlin. The Medford district of BLM totals about 900,000 acres of land. The sustained yield allowable cut from the approximately 800,000 acres of the O and C lands, has been computed, using 1959 invento . ry data, to be ' 221,000,000 board feet per year. The estimated allowable cut from the 100,000 acres of public domain lands is - about 22,000,000 board feet, should these public domain lands be administered in con junction with O and C grant lands. Otherwise, however, should the public domain tim ber lands be managed sepa rately, the estimated allow able cut per year from these lands would total only about 19,000,000 board, feet per year. Offering on Market . For the year lust ended the offering on the market for competitive - bidding totaled 243,707,000 board feet, the district manager noted. This is about the sustained yield allowable cut for all of the O and C lands and public do main lands combined in the total district. Revenues from the sale of timber in the . district must be segregated by two classes, - that is, O and C and public do- main, Youngblood said. The reason for this is that the bu reau shares different percent ages of timber receipts with 1 local county governments for the two classes of lands. The Sustained Yield Act for the O and C lands of Aug. 28, ' 1937, requires the federal gov ernment to return 75 per cent , of the gross receipts to the counties. The payment is to compensate local govern ments for taxes which they i lost when the United States : reclaimed title of the O and C grant lands in 1916.. . Douglas, Jackson and j'osc- ' phine ' counties will share handsomely in the division of the gross receipts collect ed from land activities on the O and C lands, Youngblood noted. The sharing is revealed : by the fact that Douglas coun ty will get 25.11 per cent, Jackson county will get 15.88 ' per cent, and Josephine coun ' ty will get 12.02 per cent of the gross receipts. , Returned Revenue For the public domain lands, which are commingled with the O and C railroad grant lands in the Medford BLM district area, only 6 per Records in BLM District Here Broken During Fiscal Year cent of the revenues is return ed to the local government; the remaining 95 per cent is placed in the reclamation fund. Jackson county is also pres ently sharing in this 95 per cent since the bureau of rec lamation is constructing the Howard Prairie reservoir and enlarging Emigrant dam. Records for the fiscal year also shows that there has been moderately heavy traf fic in other BLM activities in the district, Youngblood noted. ' In the timber trespass ac tivity, 70 timber trespass cas es were closed, and 41 new cases were picked up. The av erage volume of timber cut per tract totaled 22,000 board feet, and the average value collected for these average tracts was $693. Total of all trespass collections during the fiscal year ammounted to $21,344.74. Upward Trend It is noted that there is an upward trend in commercial Christmas-tree cutting tres passes, since for this same pe riod 2,127 trees were cut in trespass with a value set at $1,492.35. Another upward trend was noted in occupancy trespass; h .... homemakers 1 - r: ijv; ,1 :rW7lrr----- I , t GATES sensation! . . fi ,i-. o,Dtl!s Dt&Tl , ,'Ri j J alnSFrTnOT GR0UP T M i 3 f PilMl-ii'rft! T" J pried )a1Q f1 n UJMj-flfaJ W- iyLfJftiL;-4 Separately a. 219 ' m i II i I li '! 1 R. Pc rl 9x12 Ru9 P.d ' IfW o big Rooms ... Complete v3&rRubtcut lp llpfi j , jm, m. mrmmmmmmmrmm " p to sleep i. EJW , Ty&W :. waSSm I ar(p'AMt) .ir-.nr I 11111 kl T I I ft kV I choic. o. finish). ; "A feH ' Maflin. rack. Im P! ' 1 . Cojorfu. 9x12 ru, ,nd I ll ii rjiifj j far y. a v upm. ,. vfTT vi swr' s . wkvwv v. ii i I - ii - - .-iv j1. - I .w..;- r i), "YOUNG FAMILY BUYI fJG PLAN" You Can BUY All the HOME FURNISHINGS You Need or Wanf ON CREDIT IN YOUR OWN NAME and ON YOUR OWN SIGNATURE (No Other Signature " We have confidence and trust, and believe that what you buy you will pay for . . . that you are a reliable person willing to assume ;your responsibilities. So , . . come in today :: and buy what you need. Terms will be ar ranged to meet your budget. We have faith in you and know this great country of ours has a fine future in your hands. it is believed that, this trend is brought about by the in crease in population and, that it is unlawful to build a home on BLM land without a per mit, Youngblood noted. To further complicate the matter, he said, many of the BLM lands finger down to the Rogue valley edge, making them accessible and thus high ly attractive in many instanc es for resident construction. Adamant trespass action is be ing taken by the bureau of land management district of fice either to remove these trespassers from the BLM land or to require the tres passer to pay damages and, in some cases, a permit for occupancy is subsequently ap proved should the area turn out to be suitable for home site development. Access Roads Access road construction projects for fiscal year 1960 shared heavily in Medford district activities, he noted. The West Fork of Evans creek access road, totaling 16H miles, was completed; the Thompson creek bridge, and approaches, was complet ed; five medium-to-large ac cess road; 60 per cent of this ed in this same period. Rocking was started on the for Under-Age West Fork of Evans creek nc- cess road; 6$ per cent of this Job is estimator to be com pleted. When the project is finished this access rond will be completely winterized for winter usage. The Cantrall bridge on the Cantrall prop erty on the Applcgate river was started. Access road construction and timber sale road construc tion are an important facet of the timber sale development program for the Medford dis trict of BLM. There is consid erable preliminary work need ed prior to getting an access road under construction, Youngblood noted. BLM engineers during the year made reconnaissance, or on - the ground examinations for 30 miles of access road. BLM engineers directed the work of bureau of public roads location survey crews on 40 miles of access road surveys. BPR survey crews set clearing stakes on 39 miles of access road, and when they have been constructed over a billion board feet of BLM timber will be opened up for further development. Agreement Noted By an agreement with O and C counties, money for the development of O and C ac Married SAVE AT GATES BECAUSE: Phone SP v. cess roads conies from one third of the gross receipts that goes to the counties in lieu of tax payments; 25 per cent of tho 75 per cent of gross re ceipts that goes to tho coun ties for tax payments are allo cated by tho agreement with tho counties for road construc tion and reforestation in the O and C area. Fifty-seven permanent ease ments were acquired from pri vate individuals in the Med ford BLM district last year. Right-of-way agreements be tween the BLM and private individuals is another means of getting access to the pub lic timber. In 1960 fiscal year nine right-of-way agreements were approved. Money to maintain a log ging road conies from two sources. One Is from congres sional appropriated funds, but the main source in the Med ford BLM district is from the collection of fees paid by the users of the roads. From this source the Medford district received $49,050.83 last year, Youngblood said. Acres are Leased A total of 452,641 acres in the Medford district were leased this last fiscal year for grazing of stock purposes. Livestock that graze on the mfers. mrr a Couples mi a nn n tt Tia Medford ULM lands uro almost 100 per cent cattle. BLM furn ished forage for about 5,000 head of stock lust year. The best and the most graz ing lands under louse are lo cated In Jackson county, while $14,344.05 was the amount of rental collected for tho use of the cattle that grazed on ULM lauds, this value is not neces sarily comparable to other use rentals or collection, Young blood said. The collected rent al does not much more than pay for the cost of processing leases and administering the lands under lease, he added. Blister rust control opera tions continued lust year and accounted for a good portion of the forestry activities for the district. For the year ending June SO, total acres worked to con trol the blister rust disease amounted to 2,834. Research In the field of protuctlng su gar pine trees from infection by blister rust has revealed that a spray, Acli-dlono, Is ef fective. Some 4,500 bandly-ln fected young sugar pine trees were sprayed with Actl-dione last year. Tree-Breeding Program Presently considerable work Is being done on a tree breeding program to develop m - (Also Those About To Be) Necessary) FREE Off-Street Parking FREE Delivery Service No Finance Company Member AFA 400 Store Grants a rust resistant strain of sugar pint), Youngblood said. Should tha rust-i'i'slstiint sugar pluu be developed, llie seed or the seedling grown from tho rust resistant seeds cuulii be used for reforestation work, elimi nating tho more expensive rlbes eradication work. In the Medford district sev en cone-bearing resistant tr 'es have been discovered, and presently controlled pollina tion of the cone crop on these trees is being performed, he said. This requires climbing each tree to bag and artificial ly pollinate each individual cone from other resistant trees, Slnuo controlled pollin ation has been successful In horticulture work, It la hoped that eventually only rust ro slstant seedlings or seed can bo planted, Youngblood said. Minors! Activity In the field of mineral ac tivity during tho year 30,000 acres of BLM land was exam ined under Public Law 107. Preliminary field work on ex amining lauds for location of mining claims was located in Jackson and Joseplilno coun ties. Two thousand, or .7 per cent of the 30,000 acres of BLM hinds examined were found to have mining claims. Mineral claim examinations Buying Power n d3 Pass are to ilotoi'iiilue the actual validity of tho milling claims. In the year Just past, 2,042 acres roeulved reforestation treatment, either by seeding or by planting trees. Planting of ponderosa pine and sugar pine seed In the districts seems to produce favorable results, lie said. Planting Douglasflr seed, either by hand or by mechanical means, has not produced as favorable results as planting pines. Lust year, about 200 pounds of seed were planted, with the m o s t of these being of tho pine spe cies. Also In the year, 1,4(17, (100 seedlings were planted, City Sanitary Service Closes Jacksonville Dump Temporarily We urge the people who haul their own trash to use old dump at White City Until Further Notice. . I HByy FREE! P ,yffillllJ Electric Bras RStfFj SUNBURST MlMSj clock An entirely new creation . . , beautiful to look at, dependable In timekeeping, Eight shining, tapered pari of polished brass radiate from the face of the clock, Big easy to read while numerals. to a Customer With Purchase of the Above Group FREE PARKING 341 N. Central (Botwoon 3rd and 4th Stt.) Beside the Store a good portion of them poll" derosa plnu. Autopsy Reveals Woman Murdered Portland-WI'll - An autopsy report has disclosed that a :! year-old cook at tho YMC'A, found dead at her Inline luni Saturday was slain. Portland detectives hero said Saturday that the victim, Mrs. Ullvec Maltlork, died of a brain hemorrhage, apparent ly brought on hy a had heat log. 2 - 4158
