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tions for forest roads and trails should be those roads which cannot be quickly and adequately financed by tim_ ber operators. They should be roads located and designed with the primary purpose of removing over-ripe and otherwise mature national forest timber. Road engineer- ing standards should be flexible anrl practicable ancl load limits established to permit maximum operating economies.

"Adr.isory public hearings should be held so that the public can see to it that it receives the most of its timber access road investment. We believe that the authorization ol $22.5 million is a minimum amount vvhich (together with unused amounts of past authorizations ancl allocations from the lo-per-cent-of-receipts fund) rvoulcl" pro- vide for reasonably adequate federal financial participa- tion in the huge government-private road building job that is so urgently needed.

"The construction of timber access roads by the federal government is not a gratuity to the timber operator who uses such roads and buys government timber marle accessible thereby. Timber access roads inct'ease the value of tributary timber. When the timber is sold and paid for, the government recovers the cost of the road. The U. S. Treasury also receives substantial revenues from the sale of this timber over and above the cost of the road. There are very few expenditures made by the tederal government that have such self-liquidating features."

Phil Gosslin, Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, spent the second week of July calling on mill connections in Northern California.

We ossure our customers poinstoking ond coreful hondling ond drying of their lumber.