Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-05 | Page 5 | Country's Forests One-Fourth Its Area

I COUNTRY'S S 'S FORESTS ONE fOUR ONE ITS AREA WASHINGTON Jan 5 The The country's forests now cover acres or 01 one-fourth one of or the total area of the United States according to data compiled b by forest service er agents and made madd public tolla today Forests owned by hy the tho government cover cove one fourth o of the total art an anand and contain one fifth of or the timber now now standing standing- Forests privately owned extend over three-fourths three of the time total forest area Con Conservative e lumbering Is practiced on 7 70 iO per cent of the forests orests publicly public owned andon and andon andon on less than 1 per cent of or tho the forests privately privately owned Senator Smoot moot of Utah chairman of or the section on forests of or the national conservation conser conser- commission states that und under r rl right ht management tho the for forests st will yield four tour times limes as aN much as the they do now and also that wasted aster woods at the mills can be reduced at l least third one with future profit It H Is estimated td that forest I fires il-e can be he stopped at t a yearly yearl cost coat o of one one- firth fifth of or th the value alue of tho the standing timber burned each year I