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Show CUT FORESTS AS THEY GROW That Is How Utah to Keep Her Woodands, Forest Examiner Says To determine the amount of lumber lum-ber sawed In the national forests of district four during th past year S. Baker, forest examiner of Ihe .It jpartment of research hos been ap-. ap-. pointed census enumerator, to act for the United States bureau of census A census Is r.ow being taken In arlous lines throughout the United States by the agents of the bureau of census but due to the forest service being In such close touch with the lumber situation sit-uation In the Intermountaln country. Fores Examiner Baker has been asket to serve In that capacity. In ilw lies I llg the amount of lum-jber lum-jber sawed last year Forest Kxamlncr Baker said yosterdaj R 1PIDL1 t n I l H "The tlmberlanda of the nation are j being rapidly cut over and thut trade .- now centered in the northwest where the last great bodies of virgin timber exist. The diminishing supplies sup-plies of the northwest make us more and more dependent upon our own resources. re-sources. "In 1!:0 Utah ucd Bt.000,000 feel of lumber exclusive of the sawed material ma-terial used In the coal and metal mines w hich amounted to 12.000.000 fret und It must be rememhored that 1920 was a year of depression In the lumber business. It Ls probable that In normal nor-mal times the consumption would have been 125.000.000 feet. The round timber tim-ber and similar material used In our coal mines amounts to about 7.000.-000 7.000.-000 board fSSt and we use about 25.-000,000 25.-000,000 feet railroad ties to say nothing noth-ing of an unestlmated amount of poffts, poles and fuelwood. If this state were cut off from outside sources the forests for-ests would have to supply annually about 200.000.000 board feet of all kinds of niateriol. At present the ror-ests ror-ests In the state are supplying about 22,000 000 feet and about 9,000 000 feet of this ls sawed timber IiF-SS THIS VI AH. "There ls reason to believe that the amount this year will be slightly less than that sawed in 1920 due to the economic conditions that prevailed during the past year "If Utah usee 200,000,000 feet per .year it is easy to aeo that the nine billion bil-lion feet now on the ground would jlast about 4 5 years only. The forest service, however, docs not. contemplate that the cutting shall go on at such a rate that the timber of any state shall be exhausted. It figures on cutting cut-ting no faster than thev- grow, In other oth-er words, living on the interest of the Investment as the bankers would say and advise.'' |