A BILL FOR THE CONSOLIDATION OF FOREST LANDS
WITHIN THE NATIONAL FORESTS

V

FEBRUARY 17-21, 1920

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1920

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Statement of-

E. A. Sherman, Assistant Forester, U. S. Forest Service..

Judge E. C. Finney, Board of Appeals, Interior Department..

E. E. Carter, inspector of timber, Forest Service..

Henry Cheney, Marshfield, Oreg., superintendent timber lands, Coos

Bay Lumber Co......

Hon. Harry L. Gandy, U. S. Representative from South Dakota.

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8, 34, 55, 129

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106-137

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Exhibits:

Copy of H. R. 9539 (general exchange bill).

Report of Secretary of Agriculture on H. R. 9539.

Report of Secretary of Interior on H. R. 9539..

557

Report of Secretary of Interior to Hon. Reed Smoot, chairman Senate

Committee on Public Lands.

7

Forest exchange bills pending before House Committee on the Public

Lands, Sixty-sixth Congress, second session..

20

Forest exchanges, method of procedure followed in effecting. (Letter

Stumpage Government method for determining value of..

85

South Dakota, copy of H. R. 11118, for consolidation lands within national