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Show the @ice has not sought io offer timber for sale unless there were special circumit~ces'm aking an immediate offering desirable. A small sale on the Santa Clara Pueblo was made late in the year 1927; about 18,000,000 feet of timber on the Kalispel Reservation in Washington wasoffered in February, 1928, to meet the urgent needs of allottees'; and three units on the Klamath Reservation were offered under sealed bids opened in late March and early April, 1928. The offerings at Klamath were inadyiaable from the standpoint of main-taining a sustGed yield there, butwere thought @ bs justified as a measure of' forest sanitation and the salvage of values which might. othe+e be lost. Sic6 1920 there has been a serious 'infestation of ,dendroctonous beetles on theKlamath Reservation. This infestation aeemed to be receding in 1923-24, but during the period 1925-1927 it spead with alarming rapidity.in the southeastern part of the reservation. Very heavy losses had already occurred on allotments within the Paiute district and it,seemed advisable to offer thefive Mile, Paiute, and Eanott Gits,comprising approximately 340,000,OOp Teet, for sale under forms of contract'which would require prompt Togging of the areas. A bid of the minimum prices of $5 per 1,OOb feet for yellow pine and sugsr pine, $2.50 per 1,009 feet for Douglas fir and incense cedar, and $1 for other species was received on the Fiye Mile unit. No bids were received on the other units. In view of the . depressed lumber market, the great damage from bark beetles, and the comparative inaccessibility of the units the failure of operators to exhibit keen interest in the unitS'was not unexpected. The great expansion. i n timber operations on the Klamath p d Taholah Reservations during the~~fkcyael ar 1927, together with 'the, resumption of operritions on the Red Lake Reservation by the Inter-national Lumber Co., resulted in an exceptionally heavy cut in 1927. The value of the timberremoved from Indian lands by contractors during the fiscal year 1927,was $2,806;871.72. If there be added to this the stumpage v h e of. the' timber cut for manufacture at the Neopit and Redby ' d s on the Menominee and Red Lake Reserva; tions, the total stumpage value for that year rises to $2,953,202.10. Operations under the sale of 1917 to the International Lumber Go. bn the Red Lake Reservition were completed during 1927. Under this contract there were cut 105,042,800 feet of saw timber and considerable quantitiei'of cedar and other by-products, for all of which 01,395,585.46 was received: Within all parts of thearea not sever& burnedseed trees were left'8sdbatisfactory reseeding d l be attained on much of the sale area. :' ;Logging operations have lken comparatively ,Jight during 1928"on 'the Jicicarilla, Mescalero, and Prpokrine Resei+ations and the'unfa+br- %%lelui mber market restricted the'production on th; C.-o lville and Flit- .. |