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Show FORESTER IS HEARD BY GLOB America is using three and R half times a" much timber each year as is prown, according to District For--'' : R H. Rutk-dge, who spoke thLs noon ,;t tho regular Rotary club luncheon In the Wober club rooms, detailing national na-tional nnd district forest work. Discussing the national situation h snld there In now only two-fifths of the original timber of the United States standing and that four-fifths of the standing merchantable timber IS privately owned, only one-fifth beln In the forest rescues. Yet there arn 160.o00.000 acres in these national forests he said. Americans use 300 feel of lumber por capita annuallv, he aid. NEWSPRINT SITUATION. The district forester referred to tho newsprint Situation, saying that two-thirds two-thirds of the material used in making newsprint I now coming from Canada, Cana-da, that newsprint prices are up and tho supply i3 low. The speaker told ,oi freight rate conditions, uhlch he said added to the Increased cost of lumber and said that there Is no in-jdication in-jdication that lumber prices will ever go back tb where they were in former 'years. ' j Solution of the national problem of! timber supply, he laid, would com"' from "getting unproductive timber lands to producing" through use of cut-OVer lands in eastern. central, southern and western states ogde NDismucrr. District Forester Rutledge explained explain-ed the extent of the Ogden district -.ith Its 30,000.000 acres. Its large supply sup-ply of lodgepole pino. 13.000 permit -i ! for stock grazing of 500.000 cattle and 3,000.000 sheep. Twenty million dol-j lars worth of hvevrtock aro marketed trom this forest each year he said. Approval of tht Smoot land exchange ex-change bill, of the policy of ti-ndinpi State and federal lands so as to get Contiguous bodies and of the pollcv of forest humestcadlng was given by" the speaker, who discussed each of these phases. W. C. Bradford, community singing leader, san two songs and led the Ro-tarlani Ro-tarlani in singing "Suanee River " John Bpargo. vice-president of the club, presided and President Henry Anderson named the committees for tho year. Including W. C Brown a-s hergeant-at-arms and Andrew ( lark s i,nn gleadcr. A male quartet furnished furn-ished musical numbers. |