Show dixie forest reports heavy timber cut from his office in cedar city supervisor albert albertson recently bently announced that million board feet of timber was cut on the dixie national forest during the calendar year 1948 this put cut is a considerably greater than that made by any other utah forest and teas as third highest in the intermountain region tho the cut consisted of mine props fence poles and fence posts mr albertson reports that all timber on oil the dixie forest la Is now being cut ui on a sustained yield basis whereby hereby i no more timber to is cut annually than Is produced by new gr growth the dixie ilat national ional forest has haa yie the most extensive stands and gr greatest eat volume of pon ponderosa deroRa pine douglas fir englemann Engler aann spruce and white fir saw timber of any utah forest foresi tot total 11 receipts during the period to of which 25 per cent Is returned to tho the 1 1 counties in lieu of taxes aal and ay all g n ed ad to the forest service for maintenance of forest foiest roads |