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Show Washington', FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. H GRANGER Forest Service Expenditures in the State of I'tah The Acts of May 23, 1908 (16 U. S. C. 500 and March 4, 1913, (10 U. S. C. 500) make a-! vailable for use in the States thirty j five percent of the receipts from th? appropriations available to the National Forests twenty five percent per-cent going directly to the States, and tn percent being allocated to to road and trail work in the States. A direct allocation of $34,387.70 has been made to Utah under the provl Ions of the 1908 Act. which represents twenty five percent of the receipts from the sale and use of National Forest resources in the State during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1942. In accordance with the 1913 Act the sum of $13 75ci08 has been rei.tiered available to the Forest j Serv.ce for the construction ani maintenance of roads and trails i within National Foiests in Utah. Expciid.tures In Utah from all j Foie t Service amounted to $1,333, 511.62 durum the fiscal year ended I June 30. 1942. These expenditures were for fire protection; grating.' timber, watershed, wild life, and other land management activities; recreational u.se: operation of Na-j tional Foret CCC C.imps; con- j struet on of roads, trails., and oth-er oth-er cla.ws of improvements on the forests. Future Oil Supply In a recent srecclx given ty Dr. A. C. Fieldner. ch ef of the Fuels and -Explo Ives Service of the Bureau of Mines; he stated: 'It is evident that th" postwar trend probably will be in the direction of greater conservation conserva-tion of our national petroleum resources re-sources and in their more effective utilization. Wartime progress in , the production of high octane aviation avi-ation gasoline may lead to its use In Improved types of high-compression internal combustion engines en-gines designed to obtain more mileage mi-leage per gallon." If prices of motor fuel rise because be-cause of decreasing supplies, more attention may be given to secondary recovery from depleted fields and to the application of more expensive expen-sive refining precesses, such as pressure-hydrogenatlon of low j grade crudes. It Is probable, abo, that the Flscher-Tropsch process will be applied to the conversion of natural gas to gasoline. Largs reserves of natural gas are available avail-able for such conversion in parts of the United States remote from our present centers of population and industrial activity. "If these and other technical developments, de-velopments, together with the con-', celvable Importation of oil from foreign sources, fail to meet the demand, prices may advance to the point where the production I of liquid fuel from oil shale, coal, I lign.te. and lyijwoblr vegetable sources will be economically feasible." feas-ible." Dr. Fieldner said that most of the nation's bituminoiu coals and lignite can be liquefied by the Ber-. gius . pressure-hydrogenatlon process pro-cess and that all ranks and grades' of cool can be converted to liquid t fuel by way of water gas. "Both processes are In commercial commer-cial use In Germany. There more than half of the supply of ga o-line o-line Is thought to be made from bituminous bi-tuminous and brown coal. Costs by these methods is estimated to be four times that of producing gasoline gas-oline from petroleum In the United States. |