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Show Dixie Timber Draws Top Prices; Harvest Is Increased Four and one half million' board feet of ponderosa pine timber tim-ber on the Dixie National Forest For-est was sold at top prices in bidding bid-ding conducted recently by Boyd Leonard, timber staff officers of the Dixie. j Paul Steed of Ruby's Inn near. Bryce Canyon paid the top price of $25.25 and $22.50 per thousand board feet, respectively, on two timber chances located in the Es-calante Es-calante area. Crofts and Pearson! Industries, who bid $10.95 and $8.35 for two timber chances, will cut from Widtsoe-Bryce Canyon area. , , I National Forest timber is ap-' praised by the Forest Service and minimum stumpage values ar-' rived at through timber apprais-1 al procedure, Leonard said. The timber chances are then adver-l tlsed and any citizen with sufficient suffi-cient assets to carry out the terms of the contract Is permitted permit-ted to bid on the timber. The timber tim-ber is sold to the highest bidder providing he can show possession posses-sion of equipment and assets sufficient suf-ficient to handle the timber In a specified period of time. I Cutting this year Is being in- j creased in order to harvest diseased dis-eased and Insect-Infested timber which threatens to bring about losses greater than normal, according ac-cording to Leonard. In 1954 21 sawmills were active ac-tive In cutting timber from the Dixie Forest. |