Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-04-09 | Page 6 | Extensive Planting of Young Trees on Forests

EXTENSIVE ME OF YOUNG TREES ON FORESTS Mr. and Mr- L Brower and son, Royce, left Ogden todav for Mr Broker's Brok-er's summer station at the Beaver creek forest nursery, seven miles from Kamas, Utah. Mr Brower will at once begin the preparation for shipment ship-ment of over a half million small western yellow pine trees A hundred hun-dred thousand will be shipped to Sa Una. for planting on the Fishlaki- di--trict and 109.000 to Ephraini. for the M.-mti, 80,000 to Provo for the Uinta. 60,000 to Logan for the Cache, while 47,000 will be planted near the nursery nurs-ery on the Wasatch Thirty thousand Will be s.-nt to the Minidoka, and -i I -000 to the Sawtooth, in Idaho, and Smaller quantities to the Caribou, San ta Rosa, and La Sal forests The Cottonwood nursery, (went miles outheast of Salt Lake Citv will furnish 230,000 plants mostly Douglas Doug-las fir. for planting in Big Cottonwood canyon, near by. and .".0.000 Douglas fir plants to the Lemhi forest, Mack-ay, Mack-ay, Idaho The Pocatello nursery will supplv 185,000 plants, mainly Douglas fir, most of which will be planted on three Bites of the forest on Mink creek, near Pocatello, Marsh creek, near Downey, and near the forks of the riv er In Logan canyon. Planting at Mink creek will commence next Monday Mon-day J M Fetherolf, who has charge of the planting work iu this district, states that the planting is comment- I ing about two weeks earlier than usu al. It is essential, he says, to plain the trees as early as practicable, in order that they may have time to b come established before the dry' period peri-od begins. About 77S trees arc planl ed. at a cost, including cost of producing produc-ing stock in the nursery, of $8 per aero. Nursery cost of stock may be slightly reduced in the future, since it is the belief, after six years' experience experi-ence that seedling stock is as satisfactory satis-factory in the establishment of permanent per-manent plantations as the mon expensive ex-pensive transplant stock. oo