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Show National Forest Timber For Sale Sealed bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, Ashley National Forest, at his office in Vernal, Utah, at 2:00 P-M- Mountain Moun-tain Standard time August 20, 1956 for all live and merchantable dead timber marked or designated for cutting located on an area of aproximately 203 acres in the Lake Fork Drainage, Section 1, T. 1 N., R. 6 W., Uinta Special Meridian, Ashley National Forest, estimated to contain live and merchantable dead timber as follows: fol-lows: 1,110 M ft. b.m. of lodgepole pine sawtimber; 30 M feet b.m. of Engelmann Spruce and Douglas fir sawttmiber;. and 330 M linear feet of lodgepole pine mine prop material. The minimum acceptable bid for live and merchantable dead lodgepole pine, Engelmann spruce, and Douglas fir sawtimber is $7.00 per M feet b.m. This includes, in-cludes, per M feet b.m., a base rate of $3.10 for stumpage plus an additional $2.85 for stumpage for the first period1, plus required deposits of $.50 ' for sale area b-atterment and $.55 for slash disposal. dis-posal. The sum of rates for stumpage and sale area betterment better-ment may not be reduced by rate redetermination below $3.60. The minimum acceptable bid bid for lodgepole pine mine props is $8.55 per M linear feet. This includes, per M linear feet, $6.45 for stumpage plus $1.00 for sale area betterment, plus $1.10 for slash disposaL The total bid rates shall apply to all timber cut prior to July 1, 1959. On that date and at other times if stated in this contract, total rates will be redetermined but in no event will the sum of the rate for stumpage and sale area betterment be less than those bid until at least 600 M ft. b.m. of lodgepole pine Engelmann spruce and Douglas fir sawtimber and 170 M linear feet of lodgepole pine mine props have : been cut and paid for at not less than bid rates. The additional stumpage rates for live and merchantable dead sawtimber shall be subject to quarterly calendar retroactive adjustments ad-justments upward or downward by 0.5 of the difference between the Western Pine Association in-dex in-dex prices for ponderosa pine 1933 index for the period July 1, 1955 to June 30, 1956, and the average of the Western Pine Association As-sociation index price as calculated by the Forest Service at the end of each calendar quarter. A certified check, money order, cashier's check or bank draft, payable to the Forest Service, U.S.D.A. in the amount of $800.00 must accompany each sealed bid to be applied to the purchase price, refunded, or retained in part as liquidated damages according ac-cording 'to the conditions of sale. Minimum advance payments, minimum advance balances, and maximum advance balances which the purchaser may be required to have at any time will be computed com-puted when the award is made, and based on the estimated value of the daily cut. The right to rejeot any and all bids is reserved. Before bids are submitted f ull information concerning con-cerning the timber, the conditions of sale and submission of bids may be obtained from the Forest Supervisor, Vernal, Utah or the District Forest Ranger, Altor.ah. Utam Published July 19, 1956. |