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Show COMING OR GOING? kd Alfi W igden, Utah, June 21. An in- pie( ;sting eoiuliHou is rovoaled in day ocont Government publication, itled, "Lumber .Cut of the J1 itcd States 1870-1920" (U. S. 18 jartmcnt of Agriculture Bui- Ado n No. 1119) says District p ester R. II. Eutlcdge. Look- gall back to tho earliest statistics scnted, tho cut for Utah in s 0 amounted to 19,741,000 spo rd feet, exceeding n total for Mn ho, Montana and Arizona ether. Ten years later in 1880 a cut was 25,709,000 board feet, rro1 1 far in excess of most of tho a t( rounding states. At the present c c, tho average out is about Ko )0,000 board feet; only about f0r -third of what it was in 1880. to ; 3 cut of Idaho exceeds this x n .hundred times. On the J e of matters, it scorns as though bpc ih had passed tho ' peak of hoi iber prosperity long ago, and fln lumber industry was a thing r tho past. Thoso who know ill's forests best do not believe j to bo a fact, however. The , ' h cut in 1870 and 1880 was !J'C to the rapid development of 3 state as compared to sur- on inding states and the difficulty . 1 importing lumber prior to tho ng istruction of railroads. Sinco completion of railroads oughout this region, cheaper 1 bettor lumber from tho north- r it has drivon tho local products Ck ; of its market. Eastern buy- aro now finding it impossible fol got enough eastern and "south- j 1 timber and arc bidding sharp- Mr . for northwestern lumber. ices of imported lumber aro ac- J dingly rising to a point where al products again promise to cm i favor in the Utah market. rho present small local produc- , n as compared to that of fifty DOi irs ago, is not caused by the d,t tiaustion of timber supplies cd thiu the State. Tho indications th( s, that the National Forests of , ah aro capable of producing j out 17,000,000 feet a year from Rli ids readily accessible, whilo 'hQ, s attractive areas are capablo d , supplying 50,000,000 feet a year Co addition. There aro virtually Do timborlands outside the Nation- Mj Forests. Under tho circum- M inccs, wo can expect an increase D tho lumber industry in the cl |