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Show UTAH HiS HUGE TIMBERED AREA i RANKS ELEVENTH, BUT FORESTS ARE FAR REMOVED FROM RAIL CARRIERS Utilization of the Huge Timber Area in Ashley and Uintah Forests in the Uintah Mountains Depend on Developments Ogden. While Utah ranks eleventh in the list of the states in the amount I of national forest timber, the stand of timber in this state is rather far removed re-moved from railroads to make utiliza-Xion utiliza-Xion of it an important industrial item, it is shown by a compilation of the ' forest service here, j Utah has 5,225,335,000 board feet of national forest timber which constitu-j constitu-j tes 95 per cent of all the timber in the state. Most of this is found in the Ashley, Powell and Uintah national forests, with the Powell forest having the greatest timber stand with 1,544,-600,000 1,544,-600,000 board feet. The Ashley and . Uintah forests have each more than 1,000,000,00 board feet. Utilization of the huge timber area in the Ashley and Uintah forests in the Uintah mountains depends largely large-ly upon the railroad developments into the Uintah basipforesji service officials offi-cials point out.r jrha imber on the Powell foreslj-': .alsof'a long distance from a railroi .'.point. Marysvale is the closest station and is 100 miles from the heart of the timber region on the Aquarius plateau. This is exceptionally ex-ceptionally good timber, the forest service ser-vice says. |