Show SMOKEY SAYS Seven hundred thousand board feet of spruce saw timber timber timber tim tim- ber offered for sale on the Manti i Ranger District was purchased recently by the Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson Lumber Company of Ephraim The timber is lo located located located lo- lo in the South Fork of Six Mile Canyon just under Black Mountain It will be harvested during the next three years The company paid for the timber It will willbe willbe willbe be cut into lumber at their own mill LaVon Nielson of Ephraim was the successful bidder for another sale on the Manti ManU Ranger District Mr Nielson's Nielsen's sale is located near the head of Beaver Creek in the Twelve TwelveMile TwelveMile TwelveMile Mile Drainage It contains thousand board feet of aspen The bid rate for this timber was It will be cut cutt into lumber at the Forest Products plant in Eph Eph- raim One fourth of the funds collected collected collected col col- by the Forest Service for the timber in these sales is returned to the county for road and school purposes The timber sale contracts for both these sales require some fome road construction While these roads are to be built primarily for the harvest of timber they will furnish ac access access access ac- ac cess in the future ure for admin admin- and protection of the area and for use by hunters hunter anti ana an The timber operations are aie being coordinated with the range recreation watershed and wildlife resources to preserve preserve pre pre- serve and wherever possible increase their values This newspaper is made from wood a product of our forests |