Timberland Bought

THE College last month announced the purchase of a 6,000-acre tract of timberland in Springfield and Wilmot, N. H., twenty miles south of the campus and on the divide between the Merrimac and Connecticut Rivers. The property will be managed by the College as a long-term investment, supplying forest products for wood-using industries. The income will augment the College's endowment income.

The tract will be managed by Robert S. Monahan '29, College forester, on the same sustained yield basis practiced on the 27,000-acre Dartmouth College Grant in the extreme northern part of the state and on other timberland owned by the College. Public entry for hunting, fishing and other recreational purposes will be permitted as on other College forest land.

The tract, located chiefly in Springfield, was purchased from Walter C. and Edith B. Gardner of Gilford, N. H. Mr. Gardner is a prominent lumber and pulpwood operator in central New Hampshire and Vermont. Dartmouth's new property lies along both sides of Route 4-A for nearly three miles and extends from near Little Sunapee Lake in New London across Route 4-A to a point near Grafton on Route 4. It will be subject to taxation the same as other privately owned timberland.