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Show Manti Forest News Ranger Olsen gave a talk on I "Game Protection," using the gov-j ernment slides, to the Fairview South ward Mutual on March 13. As a state, Utah ranks sixth in the number of sheep owned, and fourth In the amount of wool produced pro-duced annually. The supervisor's office has received word that plant specimen No. 77, submitted in 1919, has Pentstemoh humilis. This plant was originally classified as a new species. I-Iow-j ever, Messrs. Tidestrom, Blake and Pennell are agreed as to the identi-i fication given above. It was collect-1 ed in Dairy Fork, at an elevation of approximately 6',300 feet, and is I classified as good forage. Ranger Cox reports that five carsj of fat beef steers from Mayfield were, loaded at Manti on .March 14. Bel-j listen and Lunt were the purchasers. During the present winter they have received 1,195 steers, most of them from Mayfield, and there are yet quite a number of steers unsold in Mayfield. The price paid has been ey2c. Letters of transmittal for all our C. and H. permittees, excepting about one-half of the Mt. Pleasant users, have been written up and are now ready fOT mailing. The secretary of the Huntington C. and H. association advises that this association has constructed a corral large enough to hold 1,500 to I 2,000 head of cattle, in connection with their dipping vat, and that dip-ping dip-ping of cattle commenced on March J 15. In the year 853, the city of Zurich, Switzerland, recognizing the danger which would follow forest devastation, devasta-tion, took over the famous Sihl forest, for-est, and has owned and operated it from that time until now, and although al-though there has been harvested an annual crop of timber for more than ten centuries, the forest is in as fine a condition today as it was in the beginning. Here in the United States four-fifths four-fifths of our original stand of timber tim-ber has either been cut for use or destroyed by fire, and we are scarcely scarce-ly more than started on a national forestry program. There are, ac cording to foresters, something lit' 2.S billion acres in the. temperate regions, and 3 billion acres in the tropics, producing timber. In the temperate regions, one-half of the forest area is all conifer or sof. woods, and yet the world is now using us-ing approximately 23 billion cubic-feet cubic-feet annually of soft wood timber, and only 13 Ms billion cubic feet of the hard woods, while of this amount' not to exceed 2 billion cubic feet! comes from the tropics. It begins to look as though a timber shortage of the conifers or soft woods is imminent im-minent in the not distant future, unless un-less some plan can he devised to reverse re-verse the ratio of use and at the same time arrange to use a much greater amount of timber from the tropics than is used at present. Mina Beauregaard, who is trapping trap-ping in Twelve Mile canyon, reports c'ght feet of snow on the level at the; Anderson saw mill in the "Corner" j north of Gunnison valley. Ranger Williams reports that stock wintering on the East Desert are now doing all right. However, owing to the cold weather, the winter win-ter has been somewhat hard on range stock. |