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Show H -TERMS OF SALE PREVENT H TIMBER MONOPOLY BBB Washington I). 0. Juno 11 In a BB sale of GO million foat of national for- BBBB est timber to tho-Mnum (irnliam 1 urn- BBB her Company, of Tin. 'lm Arizona, Bflflj a contract hnj ujin c'l 'Toil Iuj which BB Forester Graves any?, contains effect- Bflflj 'vu safeguards against possible mono- BBBH poly. Tlio timber Is located on tlio BBBK Mount Graham division of tho Crook Bflflj National Forest and flumes will bo Bflflj constructed by tho company tor talc- HBT l"K tho timber fiom tha mountain Into BBBBJ Gila valley. Under tho terms of tho BBBH sale theso riumes, which will form nil BBBH outlet for tho Mount Oralinm Hnngo HHJ timber gonerally, are to bo nvnllhblo Bflflj for the uso of tho government or or HBT n"y other purhasors form tho govern-HBHj govern-HBHj HBHJ The tlmbor contracted for consists BHH chiefly or Douglas fir and Engolmnnn Bflj jpruco, with Binall quantities of west- BBHJ rn yellow pine, whito fir and Mox- HHJ lean whlto plno. Tho Initial price of BHBj 2per thousand feet board measure BHBl lstpubjcct to readjustment in accord- BHBl auco with market values at tho end BflJ of threo years, tho contract period ex- BHBl tending over six years. HBHJ A featuro of tho sale Is tho fact that HHJ (he lumber will bo used solely to sup- HBHJ Ply tho needs of the locn. market, HHJ which consists In phrt of the agrlcul- H , turnl districts dovotopod along tho Gila BflBV River, but chiefly of tho largo coppor HHJ mines at Qlobo, Clifton, and Morcncl. This market has hlthorto been supplied supp-lied olmost oxclLblvely by lumber produced pro-duced on the northern Pacific coast, shipped by s earner to San l'edro, Cnlfornla, hnd thence Inland over tho Southern IMclflc. |