Garfield County News | 1955-02-24 | Page 50 | Two Million Board Feet of Lumber Each Month

f Two Million Board ! Feel ot Lumber ? Each Monlh J WINSLOW. Artr Sawmills f here are cutting over two million board fett of timber a month, more than most other Colorado Via trau mill turn out in a year. t Working out of America'! largest tand of Pouderosa pine, they f. are currently providing 95 per cent I ot Arizona's lumber production. Leaden in the industry indicate, t too. that output probably will con-i tinue at the high rate for some time to come, and forest service I officers at ilolbrook say the fertile Sitfrreaves forest could supply 55 t million board feet a year for the i next 30 years In proper planting j and cutting procedures are follow-I fa. i Since 1925 the forest has yielded r an average of 40 million board t ftt a year. Much of the forest r has an estimated 142 board feet of . lumber to the acre, or an amount sufficient to build a Large five t room bouse I I With approximately 448.000 acres of timber bearing land in the for- est, northern Arizona lumber men V are looking forward to many more r highly productive years. i