Show v Forest Notes Gilsonite one of the hydrocarbons hydrocarbons hydrocarbons hydro hydro- carbons of the northeast Utah has proved its value in the preparation preparation preparation prep prep- of roofing materials in inthis inthis inthis this state and and as as mineral rubber rubb rubb- er in the manufacture of many articles in the cities of eastern United States but previous to the war more especially in Belgium Belgium Belgium Bel Bel- gium Germany and France It Itis Itis Itis is the opinion of D. D L. L Carmody in an n Engineer at My Myton ton in the heart of the gilsonite district that an efficient wood preservative preservative preservative tive could be prepared from gil- gil and this belief is shared by y Lester Lambert of the Lambert Lambert Lambert Lam Lam- bert Roofing Company of Salt Lake City who is experimenting experiment experiment- ling ing to ascertain the best way i in which it could be used There are now nearly wood preserving plants in the United States of which forty are in the eleven western states the first wood preserving plant was installed at Lowell Mass in 1848 the the extension of wood preserving methods on a large e scale was by the Sante Fe Burlington Northern Pacific Southern Pacific Union Pacific and other western roads so that ten years ago more wood was preserved west of the Mississippi than in the eastern United States Slates Since then increasing scarcity of wood has prompted the building and operation of treating plants throughout the east and while zinc chloride was vas used at the beginning beginning beginning ing and is still more largely used than creosote in the west creosote creosote creosote creo creo- sote is the common preservative used in irr the east It is better adapted to a wet climate since it does not leach cut ut easily and since three-fourths three of the supply has been derived from Europe creosote is not so much more expensive expensive expensive ex ex- ex- ex pensive than zinc in the East Sixty eight per cent of the creosote creosote creo creo- sote ote has been obtained from German Germany and this supply Is now I cut off so that the time is particularly partie particularly opportune for the development development development develop develop- ment of an industry in Utah forthe for forthe the production of cheap and effective effective effective ef ef- wood preservative This is the most desirable on account of the probable Increased local demand q for a preservative j of the highest value While the process using the zinc zinc nc chloride has hitherto been in high favor because cheaper the Burlington at nt its large plant at Sheridan Vy Wyoming is now preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring to use creosote and the Northern Pacific at Paradise Montana has been using it for some time The excellent service service service ser ser- vice that is being secured from treated lodgepole pine ties from I northeast Utah and western Wyoming by two of the foremost I transcontinental lines indicates I that other vast and untouched i forests of this wood will at an I i early date be sought by other othet roads which are now importing ties hundreds of mules miles s. s Zinc chloride must be imported from cast east of or the Mississippi 1 river and if gils gilsonite nite of which the deposits deposits de de- posits are plentiful and nearby measures up to its promised i worth the foresight of these men men I wil be of real value to the com com- com I The Red River Lumber Company Company Com Corn pany of California plans to hang cups on western yellow pine trees adjacent to the Lassen national forest The outcome of this experiment is of interest in determining the profitableness profi of turpentine operations operations opera opera- in southern Utah and northern northern northern nor nor- thern Arizona when that country country coun coun- try by Is provided with railroad transportation facilities For each of ot the eight years of 1906 to 1913 the avera average e re receipts re- re per hundred acres of national national national natio natio- nal forests in District 4 were Utah Wyoming Idaho and Nevada all above the average for the two twenty-two states or territories which contain national forests In expenditures per per- hundred acres cres these states sta t t s. s t runic rank tenth 1 r I fourte fourteenth t nineteenth and andi i twentieth respectively Idaho I Utah Wyoming and Nevada I Twenty-three Twenty men planted an i average of trees per man bythe bythe by bYI the slit method on the forest near Ashton Idaho this month Two men with mattocks mattocks mattocks mat mat- tocks make the holes and plant for a third who comes an din- din the plants Good soil and moisture conditions are essential for the slit sUt method but of trees planted on the Tar hee last fall falI 85 per cent ent are thriving I o |