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Show BID FOR THE TIMBER IN BIG HORN RESERVE . WASHINGTON. July 4. The Bureau of Forestry has received an offer of $2.50 a thousand feet for 60,000,000 feet of lodge pole and pine and Englemann spruce in the Big Ilorn forest reserve, Wyo. The timber will be advertised for sale, and if no higher bid is made the offer will be accepted. The exportation of the timber from the State where the reoerve is located lo-cated has been made possible by recent Congrenslonal enactment The 60,000,000 feet will be cut strictly under the new tegulatlons. which provide that only the dead mature timber shall be used. |