Show WONDERFUL p f fa TiMBER j fj BELT BEL T a r WHICH IS TO BE OPENED UP IN SOUTHERN UTAH Eastern Capitalists Are Arc to Build n a l Railroad Under an Agreement GIorG With the Government them thero Assistant District Forester Franklin I Isu W Reed Red and D F su superb per b Seerey assistant t supervisor of the timber department per or of the forest Service or of Washington D C returned from the tho nn na nae ro e the forest in southern Utah this u c sa morning They Ther have n a good report to out make or of th their lr trip The gentlemen c have been away for about three weeks to d The object of the trip was to deter Dru Bru Ill mina as nearly as possible tho ex cx tent of t tho he timber lands thorn and andas figure figura as closely as they could how hen much o of the timber might be ayaH avail k able for tor commercial purposes and how much of It the government could t to sell soU e r Mr Ir Reed states th that t the entire country Js is a Perfect revelation In al alI a 1 I most every The Tho forest Is situated on a plateau feet feel tho valley ey nod and that the forest is al reel reet most as level oel ns as the tho streets o of Ogden OgdenA 1 A carriage can he dron drivon the entire length of oC the tho forest some hundreds of oC miles The trees or of the tho forest range In hr size from eight Inches to six feet In diameter and are tho finest sass ads trees In the entire western country countr The scenic beauty of Ute the countI can cannot cannot not be and the products ts or of Dixie Laud with the natural Noth facilitIes and undeveloped resources make malce It a promising country for set as dement The foresters were accompanied by Frank Dudley and others represent fug Ing Chicago and Now New York Interests it ang that have hae In mind the development of that section b by the ilie building of a aI I 1 with Un branch railroad from Lund Lind to the I anti Grand Canyon of the Col Colorado rado One which of oC the greatest inducements for fOI the II the building ing of oC the r ad Is an offer on the part of the government to sell as much or of thIS the or of the timber of that section as pOSe pos sible sibil The measurements made ot of the great forest disclosed the fact that three billion eight hundred million ag agent fel feet t of timber can he spared b by the tho ther Ir r hay ha go government at this time Is not nol J The gentlemen say that the I People are arc pleased with the tho and that In all T Tonic on I C the they wiD I Bela the tho timber and proceed to build the railroad The government l will not sell them this timber unless of Ira I they build buil the railroad which js to ifs es It h extend from Lund a small station on Cj the Ule Sari San Pedro road In Southern Utah through tho o DIxie country In Vash Nasli ills Ites a Ington coun county across Kane county count to the forest and to the great bottle orge of the tho Colorado river It will willon on our oar traverse the fruit region of southern ial will ill Utah nab the tho rich tap copper deposits yes noL ol and reach extensive herds of cattle That lad and sh sheep op dy aM airl |