Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-26 | Page 10 | Forest Chief Reaches Ogden

FOREST CHIEF REACHES OGDEN Col. Greely Comes for Conference Con-ference on District Problems 'ol w Ft Greeley. United States l forester, arrived In gden this morn-jing morn-jing from San Francisco. Cal. for i conference with Distrlcl Forester R H Km b dge of district four of the forest 'service. He expects (o be here a few ila, and will Inter make an inspection inspec-tion of the work being done along tne lines of fire protectloi,. forest mai. iicciiicnt with a view to the production of umber and grazing work He will he In district foui of the forest service ser-vice until the middle of July Before (leaving ogden It IS understood that he will deliver an add roes at the We-i We-i ber club. Coi. Greeley said that with $2S 000.-(i(ttt 000.-(i(ttt in funds for the building of road-ivays road-ivays in and adjacent to the national forests of the I nited States that work was to be p,ishe,l rapldlv ahead during the next threo years The work. Iv said. Is now well under way in all of the national forests. He expects to heck up the work being done in district four in fire pro-liction pro-liction and the reduction of fire losses, his goal being to hold down such los- to one tenth of one per cent of the 156.00tt 000 acres In the national forests, for-ests, j He will also pay particular atten-ion atten-ion to the wor.. being doling, do-ling, if being the policy oi the forest service he said to encourage tht ranchers and th homesteaders to use the national forest ranges supplementary supplement-ary to their own fields. Preparations were under way. ho s.ini throughout Phe western state.-- tOl take advantage of the growing demand' for lumber Which demand was ste.idil moving westwardi the eastern forests j being rapidly exhausted Col. Greeley said that the present plans called for the establishment of permanent mills when they would be established with th lilting carried on) j In such a manner that the forests; 'would not be depleted. He said that 61 per cent of all timber in the coun- try was now founu west, of the Rocky ; Mountains.