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Show IE ME " BB $100 t Single Sugar Pine In the Sierras Yields Enough Lumber to Build Suburban House The government has rccolved 99. 40 in settlement for a slnglo sugar sug-ar plno tree which was cut In' trespass tres-pass In tho Stanislaus national forest In California, and which yielded moro than enough actual lumber to build n good Rlzed suburban frame house. The treo scaled 18,933 board feet and was va'ucd at ?5.25 per thousand foot. Not many trees contain encugh lumber to build n four foot board wnlk a mllo long, and this i bellov-ed bellov-ed to bo tho first caso on record In which a slnglo tre0 felled In n national nation-al forest was valued nt nlmost $100 on tho stump, although national forest for-est timber In California Is frequently sold at considerably hlghor rates. Dangerous Bog to Be Fenced Tho forest sorvlco has purshasod barb wlro and local stockmen will fenco a dangerous bog which covers nbout ten acres near Mountain City In tho Humboldt national forest of northorn Nevada. Tho bog surrounds a hot spring of which tho water Is excellent for bathing 'purposes for the relief of rheumatism. In tho spring, howovor, the mud In tho holos about tho spring is pushed up olght or ten inches above tho level of tho ground nbout, and then becomes dry and crusts over. This Is .deceiving to people, who have sunk In tho bogs to their arm pits, nnd to stock, that aro unable to extricuto themselves. Hitherto many head of stock liavo been lost thoro each year. The applications for range Indicate that more cattle and fowor sheep will bo grazed on tho Welsor forest, In western Idaho, tho coming season. Present snowfall on the Welsor is only CO per cont of the average. " |