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Show NOTES FROM WASHINGTON With its temporary license system sys-tem validated by the United States Stat-es Supreme Court this week, the Grazing service of the Department Depart-ment of the Interior today prepared pre-pared to covert 12,000 temporary grazing licenses into 10-year permits per-mits covering use of the conserved conserv-ed ranges of 10 Western States to support twelve million head of livestock. The native American black walnut wal-nut continues to yeld the highest high-est priced timber in the United States, the U. S. Department of Agriculture reports in the annual an-nual summary by the Forest Service Ser-vice on stumpage and log prices. Black Walnut logs brought an average av-erage price of $86.21 per board thousand feet for all States, although al-though one purchase at a price in excess of $200 was reported. Average prices for all hardwoods hard-woods including black walnut in log sales reported, were $20.57, and for softwoods $13.30 per thousand board feet. Stumpage or standing timber sales averaged $2.48 for softwoods and $5.87 for hardwoods. Potential capacity in the United States for the production of nitrogen, nit-rogen, a principal constituent of explosives and fehtilizers, soon will reach 800,000 short tons a year as compared with a production produc-tion of 424,000 tons in 1939 according ac-cording to estimates contained in a report submitted this week by Dr. R. R. Sayers, Director of the Bureau of Mines, to the Secretary of Interior. Production of artificial abrasives, abra-sives, essential to the manufacture manufac-ture of guns, shells, airplanes, tanks and every product that involves in-volves metal froming and finishing, finish-ing, can be increased about 50 percent over the output of 1940 without building - new plants, according ac-cording to data recently assembled assembl-ed by the Bureau of Mines. The spring flood of the Colorado Color-ado River in the last ten days has added another million acre-feet acre-feet of water to Lake Mead above Boulder Dam, the world's largest man-made lake, bringing the storage stor-age to 27,000,000 acre-feet, the highest peak ever reached, it was stated this week by the Bureau of Reclaimation. |