Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-23 | Page 12 | The Timber Exhaustion a Menace

!THE TIMBER EXHAUSTION A MENACE. '.. - Work is being greatly delayed in Nevada for want of lumber. The sources of supply seem unable to produce : enough to half-aatlsfy the insatiable demand, and there are Mn fears that this city will not receive Its full quota. The mills were crowded with orders when the San Francisco j cataclysm came, and there the demand is immense and the producers think San Francisco should have the first call. 1 Work can be put off, but there must be roofs over women ! and little children. There are thousands of steel cars being built In. the j East It seems Inevitable that men will more and more turn to metal houses. If aluminum gets a little cheaper, and if, as we think, steel will shortly be reduced greatly in t price, the rage will soon be for steel and tile houses, with j tile roofs and aluminum equipments for casings and doors I and windows. The great former forests of the old North-I North-I west are well-night gone, the South is' being swiftly bereft ' of its timber, the warfare upon the forests of the Sierras, , the' Coast range 'and Cascades is something tremendous. .The metalllo age is surely upon us; the deep woods fall before it, the horse is being pushed aside, the search for gold fills men's eyes as well as their teeth, and their hearts 'are growing hard.