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Show TIUSIDS OF TSEES TO IE PLANTED 1 IIS STATE C. N. Woods returned yesterday to his home at Halley, Idaho. He reports re-ports that the spring Is opening very favorably In central Idaho; that field work will probably commence in that region by May 1. About that time S, B. LockeK who has been engaged in the local district office during the winter, will proceed to Halley with Mrs. Locke and their little daughter. Mr. Locke will have direct charge of planting 75,000 fir and pine trees on the Sawtooth forest Bight hundred and ninety-one thousand thou-sand trees are to be planted thi6 spring on 1000 acres in the national forests of Utah and southern Idaho, of which more than half are Douglas Doug-las fir; a little over one-fourth yellow yel-low pine; one-tenth lodgepole pine, and small quantities of Norway spruce and Engelmann spruce. These trees are produced in three nurseries, near Pocatello, Idaho, and Salt Lake and Kamas, Utah It is planned to grow 2.000,000 seedlings at each of these nurseries the coming com-ing season. |