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Show HUGE TIMBER SALE LIKELY Assistant Forester Carter in Ogden En Route to Oregon Forest En route to Burns, Ore- to look over a section of country containing Home seven billion foit of western yel low pinn timber OI) tli1 Malheur national na-tional forest whir), the forest service I is prepurlnK to open f.ir s.ilc, K. K. Cartf-r, as.slstant foi ester with hc-aci-gurirlcrn ;it WLShlngton, arrived in jf-den jf-den lriHt nijclit for a conference with District Forester Ii. H Rutleage. Hci Is makmsj .m inspection trip to districts No. 1. 2. and 6. nnd expects ex-pects tn siienii : t ten days Lri this distrirt during which time he will visit a numhon of the forests While here he will also confer with P C W, Pooler, Pool-er, district forester of district No. , with headquarters at A.lbuquerque, N M.. who also arrived In Ofrilt'n last nlnht for it conferen c with District ot ester Rutledge relative to methods of manajarpnicnt In district No t and ' s n InterchaiiRe of ideas on the methods meth-ods employed in both districts. TO BITliil) RAHjROAD S.e4ilnjr of the scen billion feet of timber in the Miiheur national forest Assistant Forester Carter said that before be-fore that section could be opened up it would be necessary to build a railroad rail-road from Crane, a terminal point on the Oregon short i,me railroad, to Burns over a maximum grade of thre tentha of one per cent and also the building of n railroad from Hums, a distance of some fifty miles, lo tap the i timber This would make accessible 'some four billion feet of timber, he I said, and would give the railroad at i least BO million feet Of lumber to be hauled to eastern markets each year Another short tap line he ald woiua make avaimoic another three billion feet of timber. TO M ) I . I ST Assistant Forester Carter said that he expected thit within the near fu ture many of the large mills now operating oper-ating In southern territory would be moving: their equipment to western I states due to the fact that the timber tim-ber resources of the southern states I were being rapidly depleted. Bids on the sale of the timber are to be opened at Burns, he said, on ( Febriury 1 5, 1923 The forest service, he said, had re-celved re-celved a number of inquiries rccently froin milling companies for information informa-tion relative to the section In ques-j ques-j tlon and tjiat to supply this the serv-; serv-; ice had had printed a prbapgClUfl that was being sent out to those Interested. ! Such a venture by a milling com-pany com-pany a 'one would require approxl-i approxl-i mately ?,, 000, 000 of capital, he said. oo |