Show Forest Sells 24 Million Feet of Timber Forest Supervisor A R McConkie of Ashley National Forest announced Monday that a total of nearly 24 mil mul- million mullion lion board feet of timber was sold to two separate timber purchasers within the past week The two timber sales corn com combined biped contain an estimated volume of 1430 million board feet of lodge lodge- lodgepole lodgepole pole pine and approximately million board feet of Engelmann spruce WILLIAM E Sweeney of Great Lake Timber Company i iFt Ft Duchesne was the apparent apparent ent high bidder on the John John- Johnson son Bench Sale The timber was sold on June 22 and Is comprised of approximately million board feet of lodgepole pine and mil mil- million lion board feet of Engelmann spruce The timber was sold for a Continued on page 8 Sale Continued from page 1 rate of 4 per thousand board 1 feet for both species including IncludIng ing 2 per thousand board feet for slash disposal ThEre Is also a per thousand board feet road amortization I deficit for this sale The Johnson Bench timber sale Is located on Roosevelt Ranger District and Is approximately four miles west of the Paradise Guard Station In the Lily Lake John Creek son Creek The construction of miles of required timber ac ac- ac access cess road will be subcontract subcontract- ted by Mr Sweeney with road construction slated to commence within the next two weeks Logging and haul haul- hauling hauling ing will begin later on this summer The logs will be hauled approximately 35 miles to the company's saw saw- sawmill sawmill mill at Lapoint DISTRICT Ranger G Val Simpson of Roosevelt Ranger District will be the timbEr sale officer In charge of this sale The Big Park Timber Sale on the Vernal District was sold to Ivan Anderson of Heb- Heb Heber Heber er Utah on June 23 This sale contains approximately approximately million board feet leet of lodgepole pine and million board feet of Engel Engel- Engelmann Engelmann mann spruce for a total of 1350 million board feet It Is located five miles west of Trout Creek Guard Guard Station on the Hacking Lake road and is approximately 38 miles mUes from Vernal by dirt gravel and blacktop roads MR ANDERSON Is curren- curren currently currently operating a sawmill near Heber and plans to establish another mill mUl in the Vernal area within t the e near future He does not plan to corn com commence menee mence logging on the Big Park sale until the 1965 1065 seas seas- season season on but will probably corn com commence mence preliminary work on the miles of required timber access road rond late this season This sale was for a total of per thousand board feet for both species Including for slash disposal The road amortization rate deficit Is per thousand board feet I I District Ranger Thomas H Sevy of the Vernal District will wUl be responsible for tor admin this timber sale IN MARKING the timber to be cut on these two sales full consideration was given o the coordination needed to achieve multiple use manage manage- management management ment of all of the Forest uses and resources In the sale areas Mr McConkle McConkie said The needed coordination was in- in included eluded In both the sale prep prep- preparation preparation phases and the timber sale contracts for the respective respective tive sales These sales have been plan plan- planned ned In a manner which will permit the harvesting of old over mature disease and In- In trees and re re- re replacing placing them with young vig- vig vigorous vigorous orous reproduction without detriment to the other Forest uses and resources he said |