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Show LUMBER. Where is the lumber to come from to supply this market? is already a qnc-ti'in that begins to n.f.iurrm prominence. promin-ence. The timber in nur mountains is so far .in bi-ing iii' xhaustibl that there is a pro- pect of the sin. ply being below iho demand thiu spring and summer, even counting on the large quantity which will Jikc'y come from Tniokeo. And there is 1o-day n decided de-cided KCfircity of certain kinds and qualitiesrcquircdhero. Mr. Dinwoodey, our h ading furniture- manufacturer, lias 1'mtiid him-"'lf vithin a veclc pa it unable un-able to procure an article "('lumber suitable suit-able for hi.-i purpo.-ii'S, and was about writing for il to be shipped to Itim, whi'ii ve last l.ilked to him; and thin, too, of a quality tlm. lie bus belbrelimo obtained bete. A very large quantity of lumber will doubtless conn) Lcro liom Tiuckou, but i places ncaror this city should furnish this market. On tho mountains bordering Weber river largo quantities of fine timber grow. So also with those bordering ou Bear river.; Saw mills have been put in at different points, and the lumber used by the the U. P. R. R. Company for several hundred miles east of thU valley, has, we believe, be-lieve, been furnished by them. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly more could be sawed out iu the mountaius named than is now done, and it should be shipped to this market so as to be sold at reasonable price. But the prospects arc that at a not very distant period much of tho forest timber of this region will be exhausted. exhaust-ed. What then ? Unless forest timber tim-ber is planted in large quantity, and that within a few years, a considerable extent of the Great Basin will be com- nellnd to dmw its snrmlieq nf limitiAr from a distance as is now being; done in part. True, the opening up of railroad lines through the Basin, will bring within reach considerable quantities quanti-ties of timber now unavailable ; but those very railroads will promote a largely increased number of settlements, settle-ments, with cities and towns growing in population and importance, all heavily heav-ily and rapidly denuding the mountains of their timber growth. Years ago the importance of planting out and glowing forest timber was dwelt upon by prominent and far-seeing men in this Territory ; and year by year that importance will present itself with increased in-creased growth, until it comes in the shape of an absolute necessity, unless something is done by planting to mediate me-diate the evils which it threatens. |