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Show 6QVERIMENT SELLS j EOiEO TIMBER I J WASHINGTON, Sept 19. Tho Z government saved Itself from a total gJK Joss by tho forest fires In the north- K west last year today when a deal was B)i closed for tho sale of 125,000,000 feet of flro-klllcd timber In Idaho." With the burned outside taken off, this timber is as good for all manufacturing manufactur-ing purposes as any other lumber. Part of the timber was sold to an Idaho lumber company and the rest to a Washington concern. Of the billions or feet of fire-klllcd timber in Idaho, Montana, Washington Washing-ton and Oregon, all the result of last year's flre3, much remains, and this tho government -will soil Tho value of the timber was fixed according to the kind of wood and the logging methods necessary. |