Show NATIONAL FOREST RESOURCES VITAL TO LIFE OF UTAH national forest resources are more part and parcel of the life of the people in utah than in any other state why this is so is set forth in miscellaneous circular no 71 M just issued by the forest service united states department of agriculture under the title national forest resources of utah the pamphlet brings out the fact that the national forests of utah supply summer forage for nearly a million cattle horses and sheep over quarter of all those owned in the state more than eight thousand stockmen stoc kmen hold permits to graze their livestock on the forest ranges the forests contain something over five feet of saw timber and down from the high timbered mountain slopes all above feet elevation comes the water to irrigate farms and run imbry of her electric power plants in every county in the state there is national forest land which is true of no other state in the union utah timber is not being drawn on very extensively at present but thu timber and especially the timber in i e notional nit ional forests is becoming more important as timber in other regions is cut out although utah now cuts I 1 only about board feet annually nu ally the national forests of the state are capable when called upon of furnishing nearly feet the describes the timber stands and the manner in which they are handled by the forest service to keep the land in forest while making use of the mature tim her it also goes into the way in which other resources of the national forests such as forage water wild life and recreational facilities aro handled by the government nearly 80 per cent of the improved farm land in utah is irrigated and th greater part of the water used in ir negation comes from the national for ests copies of the pamphlet may be ob tamed while the supply lasts by ad dressing the forest service at washington D C or ogden utah miss jessie clark left this mom ing for a brief visit at salt lake ity I 1 J W watts who is caretaker at the travis well south of j thompsons Thomp sons is spending a few days I 1 with his family at moab during the holidays A C campbell who for the past eighteen months had been coach ot the grand county high school lef thursday for his home at logan after spending the holidays there hac will enter the employ of the inter notional harvester company having resigned his position with the cocat schools the grand junction highway connection by way of spanish fork canyon and cast of is to be a big share of the syoney set aside by the state road commission for 1927 road construction maintenance and minor it is announced by officials of the commis sion of carl R marcusen of price chairman of the republican I 1 state committee are grooming him according to reports for nomination for governor at the state campaign two years hence prospect of a hard contest within the demo cratic party is expected to be removed by persuading governor george H dern to try for re election but the situation is entirely different in the republican party where tsi chances of three or four leaders are being considered supporters of M marcusen contend that he has earned I 1 reward from his party because of his services in many campaigns ana I 1 particularly in the recent overa hehn angly successful campaign they al ao insist that as the republican can didace for united states senator will be chosen from among three or four salt lake county men atho have be n mentioned for the honor the bartys nominee for governor should come from some other county As marcu sens home is in carbon county h would have this geographical addan tage it said Js |