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Show OUR GOVERNMENT , FORESTRESERVES Heaviest Sales of Timber in 1913 Yet Recorded for Any One Year Washington, December 10. More than 2 billion board feet of timber, with a value of 4i million dollars on the stump, was sold by the forest service , 1 last year, according to the annual ,4 report of Horny S. Graves, for- X ester, published today. This is an increase of 167 per cent i ver J the sales of the preceding year. Lj The timber sold was largely for 1 future cutting under contracts M that will run for a number of S years. The actual cut was a I little less than 500 million board I feet, an increase of 15 Tier cent I over 1012. Still larger sales are I in proppect. TIMBER SALE METHODS. The timber sale policy of the " "- forest Bervice is summarized as , aiming first of all to prevent losses by fire, and secondly to utilize the ripe timber;- which can be marketed. Ofher aims are: to cut so as to insure re-i re-i stocking and forest permanence; to set the full market value for - the timber sold; to prevent speculative acquisition and private priv-ate monopoly of public timber and to maintain competitive t, conditions in the lumber indus- k try as far as possible; to provide f first for the needs of local com B nwities and industries; to open , .'II v -- fands of agricultural value to , p I settlement without allowing f'i them to be tied up by timber l speculators; and finally, to se- "' ,H cure as soori as possible the cost ot production and administra-,V,! administra-,V,! tion to the gwernment and a ( revenue to the national forest - states, to which go 25 per cenl ii of all receipts. 5f?"M ' ' 'ar8e number of national fi"s". - forests already more than pay W operating expenses. The reve st nue from the Alaskan forests SIL - now exceeds the cost of admin- ng r .istration. The same is trueen- ff erally in the southwest. H RANGE MANAGEMENT Hk The forage resources of the K national forests are pointed out fl , as contributing to the maintain- fl ance of over 20 million head of fl livestock, which supply in part fl at least the demands for meat. fl hides, or wool of every state in B the union. The receipts from fl grazing, during 1913, though B second to those from timber B were more than a million dol- B lars, and showed an increase over the previous year in spite S of the fact that the season was B ( less favorable and the area re-B re-B duced. Over 4 per cent more B sfock was grazed as the result B of increased forage production B and improvements in handling I sfcopk, especially sheep, fl The system of range manage- 'I mpnt employed by the .forest B service is held to offer hope of B relief to the average citizen con fl cerned over the dwindling sup- B ply of meat products and their B v. alarming rise in cost. The B national forests furnish abund- B ant forage supplies, opportunity B for the adoption of the best I methods, freedom from live- stock diseases, and protection in the enjoyment of all rights and privileges. Cattle from the I Hayden nati onal forest in Colo-I Colo-I rado took the grand champion-I champion-I ship prize at the "National Live I Stock Show in Denver, and in I many cases the lambs from the I forests topped the market. I Losses from predatory animals ' are.growing less as the wolves, " bears, and other animals are killed off by forest officers. PHOFESSmWAL CARDS- I A.D. McGUIRE, I ATTORNEY-AT-I-AW I Suite 4 Mercantile Uloolc, H Ccdnr City, Utah H notary- rui3i-ic: H l'rnctlco In ull tho courts of state, 9 Laud titles; Homesteads: Land Ofllco H practice; Water Rights; Farm Lands H nnuCltv Properly M .ttoi'iicy-u.t-JLia'w fl Geo. R. Lund I Attends all District Court sea- fl sions at Parowan Utah H st auoRaa utaii fl T-jJiiWyorg fl CLARK B WRIGHT 1 Associate Work for Attorneys fl Public I.nml Mutternt 1'limt Prnof. Dtser sH I.niuU. ContcnlH ntul Mlnliiif Cases. Scrip. 9 WASHINOTON 1). C. DR. R. LEIGH I DENTAL SURGEON -fl Kohmkk Instructor in CoLtKos op Dkntai. lM SininiiKV. Ann Akiioii. MIciuoan. M llmu: by appointment Phono 18 4. ',H Olllee; SuiTt:.' Mkhoan'Mm: Blocic H DR. R. A. THORLEY fl TS-iE Dentist fl Coclar City, - - - Utah fl DR. M. J. MACFARLANE fl PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ; Office in Knell Block fl Ofllcu hours: 10 to 12 n. m. 2 to G p. m. s fH Ofllco Phono 40-2 Uesl. Phono 03 y jH ERNESTFUNT GREEN fl Tfl PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON fl Olllcaat lUsldonce, Plrht West Strcot, fl Oppositn Slir-ip Ass'n Store. H MSHtUHSSMSMSlllWSJSMMSsWSJMSlBSWMSnSiaSMMSllSSliasilSSHSlllMSlKEa ial Electrical and Hydraulic fl ENGINEER M R. S. Gardner fl Phono 31 Red. 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