Five Million Feet of White Pine Sold Off the Kaniksu
A federal forestry agent comes to Newport to close a deal with the Fidelity Lumber Co. — 5,000,000 feet of standing timber at four dollars a thousand.
J. A. Fitzwater, of Missoula, Mont., connected with the National Forestry department, has been in Newport during the past week. He is here looking after the sale of 5,000,000 feet of standing timber in the Kaniksu Forest to the Fidelity Lumber Co., of this city. The company has agreed to purchase this timber, most of which is white pine, at $4 per 1,000 feet.
“The company has agreed to purchase this timber, most of which is white pine, at $4 per 1,000 feet.”
In 1909 the federal government was still converting the Kaniksu into stumpage contracts, and a five-million-foot sale at four dollars a thousand was front-page business in Newport. The same forests — now the Kaniksu and Idaho Panhandle national forests — remain the center of fights over logging, wildfire and who gets to decide. The price of a white pine has changed; the argument over who owns the ground under it has not.
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