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Show oo THE K Al BAB FOREST OPENING. The Standard, on another page of thin issue, has a story of the animal life in tho Kaibab forest of southern Utah and northern Arizona, as related by one of the forest service supervisors supervis-ors who is here to report to head quarters. The Kaibab is one of the largest forests in the Lilted States and D. F. Seerey. who has had a wide experience ex-perience in timbering in Michigan and other states, says the Kaibab re minds him of the forests of the lake region before the ax and saw started start-ed to cut down the great trees. The forest service has recently called call-ed for bids on one billion feet o timber tim-ber in the Kaibab national forest and this is said to be the beginning of a vast development In that district, in-chiding in-chiding the opening up of the country coun-try by a railroad to be constructed from Marysvale on the Rio Grande or from the San Pedro in southern Utah. Forest officials have measured the timber in the great Kaibab forest belt and have found that It contains over two billion feet of timber Of this one billion feet has been recorded record-ed as being of sufficient growth for cutting. In the bids called for by the government a plan has been provided provid-ed for the cutting of approximately forty million feet of timber annually. Hence it would take twenty five years to cut the billion feet of timber In that time the forest experts estimate esti-mate that the ounger timber will have matured and there will be another an-other billion feet to cut while the other oth-er timber has a chance to grow up again At the same time forty million mil-lion feet a year is enough timber, experts say, to make the development of the project through a new country practical and profitable. It Is estimated esti-mated that it will cost about $3,000. 000 to make this timber accessible. It will involve the construction of 200 miles of railroad. The opening of the Kaibab forest should prove of vast benefit to southern south-ern Utah. |
