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Show TIMBER SOLD AT CDST TO SETTLERS J. B. Laffertv. supervisor of the W eiser national forest arrived yes terdsy for a brief detail at district headquarters .Mr Laffertv s forest nu: perhaps on an average, the low oil altitude of any In this district, and by reason of its altitude and of geographical location and soil conditions, condi-tions, contains a large percentage of western yellow pine of high value for the sawmill. Mr. Lafferty reports a gradual rc-v rc-v ival in the timber bales business, especially of small sales. Under a law recentlv passed providing for the Eale of timber to actual settlers .'ltd fanners at cost, 492,000 feet of saw timber has been sold from the Weiser during the past four months ot 75 cents per thousand feet. on |