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Show National Forest Timber For Sale Sealed bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, Vernal, Ver-nal, Utah, up to and induding December 8, 1954, at 2:00 p.m. for all live timber marked or designated for cutting and all merchantable dead timber on an area of approximately 85 acres in Sections 23, 24, 25, 26, T. 2 N, R. 5 W., U.S.M., Petty Creek Chance No. 3, Lake Fork Working Circle, Ashley National Nation-al Forest, estimated to be 21,-000 21,-000 ft. b.m., more or less of Englemann spruce sawtimber, 453,000 ft b.m., more or less of Lodgepole pine sawtimber, and 81,000 linear feet, more or less, of Lodgepole pine mine prop material. Each bid must be accompanied ac-companied by a certified check, money order, or equivalent, payable pay-able to the Treasurer of the United States, in the amount of $500.00, as deposit de-posit with bid to be applied on the purchase price if the bid is accepted, refunded, or retained in part as liquidated damages according to the conditions con-ditions of the sale. Each bidder who has not previously operated operat-ed on the Ashley National Forest For-est must furnishe with, his bid a financial statement, showing possession or availabilliity of logging log-ging equipment, cash and other unencumbered assets sufficient in the judgment of the awarding officer to carry out the terms of the itimber sale agreement. No bid of less than $4.15 per M ft. b.m. for sawtimber, and $5.40 per M linear ft. for mine props will be considered. In addition to making payments for stum-page, stum-page, the purchaser will be required re-quired to make an additional deposit of $0.50 per M ft. b.m. for the total cut of sawtimber and $0.50 per M linear ft. for the total cut of mine props to be deposited into a cooperative work fund to pay the ebst of timber stand improvement, and $0.50 per M. ft. b.m. for the total cut of sawtimiber and $0.50 per M linear ft. for the total cut of mine props, to be deposited deposit-ed into a cooperative work fund to pay the cost of brush disposal work. The right to reject re-ject any iand all bids is reserved. Before bids are submitted, full inf ormiation concerning the timber, the conditions of sale, and submiissiion of sealed bids and financial statements should be obtained from the Forest Supervisor Su-pervisor at Vernal, Utah, or the District Forest Ranger ait Al-tonah, Al-tonah, Utah. First Publication, Nov. 4, 1954 Last Publication, Nov. 11, 1954 |