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Show Forest Industries Of Utah Pump $4.8 Million Into State Utah's forest industries, which provide jobs for some 800 people are pumping about $4,800,000 a year in payrolls alone into the economic arteries of the state. Who benefits from the inocme? Just about everybody, according to figures compiled by American Forest Products Industries who sponsor the America Tree Farm System of growing trees as a crop on taxpaying lands. Forest industry workers spent $921,000 of this payroll at grocery gro-cery stores and delicatessens. Their car purchases brought to car dealers $177,600 and another $120,000 went for gas and oil. Some $259,000 of this payroll went into savings while $52,800 was donated to churches and charities. Another $264,000 went for clothing, and $57,600 was spent for shoes. Medical care doctors, dentists, hospitals, drugs and medicines took $177,600. Thomas Welch of Midvale, a spokesman for the industry, said good forest management and a wise use of the forest resource will assure a permanent supply of raw materials for Utah's forest for-est industries and a stable source of income for the state. The western pine lumberman warned, however, that death and decay in the state's static old-growth old-growth forests are taking more timber than is harvested for use each year. Only when these over ripe trees have been harvested and replaced by new crops of vigorous young timber will this huge mortality be reduced. |