Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-29 | Page 12 | Enthusiastic over Exhibit of Woods

ENTHUSIASTIC OVER EXHIBIT OF WOODS State and District Superintendents Work to Arrange for Good Use of Traveling Specimens. Dr. E. G. Gowajis. state superintendent superintend-ent of public instruction, and tho sftpcr-intendents sftpcr-intendents of school districts throughout the state are enthusiastic over Die trs.v-eling trs.v-eling loan exhibits of commercially Important Im-portant woods which have been prepared by the United States forestry serrice for use in schools, libraries and other educational edu-cational institutions. The exhibits contain sixty-four samples, sam-ples, with maps showing the region in which each snecics grows, short statements state-ments of their principal uses and phvsi-cal phvsi-cal characteristics, charts and tables showing forest produt-ts by states, the rise and fall of the lumber industry and the percentage of lumber sttpplfed bv different dif-ferent regions, and maps of the natural forest regions of North America and the national forests, of which Utah lias eleven reservations. "This type of exhibit is most Interesting Interest-ing and has hich educational value," Superintendent Su-perintendent Gowans said last night. "Effort is made to arrange itineraries of the exhibit so tha t borrowers will have to pay for the transportation only from the nearest interested point. The superintendents super-intendents can write to the district forester for-ester at Ogden. to the nearest forest supervisor, su-pervisor, or, if they write to the state department of public instruction, we will be glad to do what we van to assure a general demand for the exhibit."