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Show I' FORESTRY EXPERT SAYS UTAH LUMBER CUTTING TO BECOME VITAL INDUSTRY FOR STATE Reduction of Timbered Areas in Pacific Northwest North-west Will Soon Bring Dependence Upon In-rjrmountam In-rjrmountam States for Local Needs; Constantly Growing Demand for Forest Products I yJVJ ll hililMlil I ItT) mm I BJ In district No. 4 during the calendar mm E BJ HJ BJ r (.. th user. Tl- total lumhi BJ contrary the total amount or timber B B K BM I K I The amount of umber u-d In tin- W. tale during 1911 wu sonsiderabl I I i..in th. amount used li 1 90 Thli H i B 'mn Intermountain dls-BL dls-BL 10 1 I fuel than It has in yean past c Hr I HBfl merclal sales, during the fiscal year VLswH' the commercial cut as cntnpari'il with w n r HJ1 1 ITtnh for. mtm nlnno -..n.i.M, .1 a nnrm . Ilmately itio million f ti B, M. of timber tim-ber under sales at cost to farmers and ttlcrs during the past fiscal yi iir, Ap-proxlmatt Ap-proxlmatt In un i-uunl amount was supplied sup-plied the year previous under the same form of hair. Sale? at cost are made at what U estimated to be an losely as possible the actual cost to ths Kovernment of R) eking and administering ad-ministering Hi. -so sales. On account of these sale being im.iU. uu.iii from ioimi to 10.000 U per Mali-, the average cost of admlnU-t admlnU-t ration is comparatlv sly high, a charge of $1 per .1 foot 1! ,. Stumpage If made Cor limber under sales at cost. Theee sales are made to farmers and ottlers for the Improvement of tr. li property ohiy. and are not made " r fldent of tow pi mil cities for the Improvement "f city property. LTAHNS SECURE 1 I MB EH U During the calendar year of 1121, t he people of Utah obtained slightly over unc million feet 13. M. of timber from the national forests in this stale without charge. In other words, they got It for the Im asking. Material Riven -way free li m ,s "ill improve the Bland of Umber T i have it in bctt-T condition for In- Ij isetl growth of the treea remaining m t res t appl 1 o d to m iri t menace to the forest In that thej T reate :i fire hazard or help In the f Pread of destructive insects and fun gus diseases. Timber sales In the. Intermountain W district .ire nearly all very small sales tnd era In large meaauri roe.de to tho V, B s inimorclal sales made during th cai rn oi ygar H21, lCi7 of theae galea i r- fbi amount of timber value i lhan 1100 per ale. Then wren M at W ' thi iii: proi m nt ol thcli jj ranch property, All of these sales t I wen for less than 1100 In value per VwJ s i.i i PR i TIMBER PA i" Opli obi ilm i ii.. Brt arg f rom t h Ion II 4 H f i" "pi ' a .in. i i either b) i H The value oi cat in di i H Xo. 4 during the calendar year 1921 if - iW I I ill 1 . 1 . tlnrlnr t I w I fiscal year J.Tfi.Gia worth of timber was given away under frei dh per-mlts per-mlts In this district out of irhJch $S.'J32 worth WU given awav In L'tah. Il llo TOT iL8 'I Ml' The timber cut on the national forests for-ests In Idaho under commercial sales has jumped from eleven and one-half j :.iilllon to twelve .mil one-half million B j feet R. M. for the years 1920 and 1821. J In the year ending June 30. 1921 thir- Wm and one-hall I "f timber was fhni away In Idaho. Bfl 1 1" ear ending liei ember 31. Br X. lb- amount of timber removed Kb I free of charge had jumped to twentv- J four and one-fourth million feet it. HM I be 1 " tn" western Wyoming forests which Sc 1 ni lud tl wli Wt 1 1 irgel ill, In' ,. th. ,, t I K J fc-1 I El t ,'',', "' being called upon more each El " ippls th timber need mfm !3 U foople UvIiik within the boundari.-M PH9k th. xe state?. PM Tin New . , J lanln and Now York, then the I. , , BTV b.le n cut OVel li.'. I tpJPj 'hem c m even supplv th.. demand-fclM demand-fclM timber of their own state. V- ' eouthem pineries are n IW nmr- jcT 9 '' over. The weal ooaat It i utting i more timtn-r each year than ever be- fore and some authorities are now pointing to u time from 15 to 25 or 10 ear hence, when the v est forests fOTi and Wnshlnglon will have iifi-n i ut over and when even these great lumber producing state- will have no lumber to export to other jstatos of the union. mi -1 -i h.n PVTA EEDfl j i t.a. i his time conn the i,.. . - . 1 1 1 .1 a I iniermuuniuin miiic.i win ie ir.jun. to furnish timber for their own build-log build-log ij'i-i i.r i ..a nnrr.i -o:. if,l high price for the lumber which they con- laume. It will only be a feu ea'" un- , til the virgin forest arc-as of Utah, v intern Wyoming and Idaho will support sup-port big lumher Industries and It is the plan of tho forest service that When these industries arc established, they will lie permanent institutions.' i These forests will not be allowed to be : cut over and slashed a)d the lumber exported to outside regions, but will be sold in such a way that the local demands will be taken care of and home industries protected. It is necessary even now to gauge th) lumber consuming power of the, different communities uround the for- ; ests as well as the large mining, rail- : roa I ..ful wire c lmpanles, tvhlch use iwed forest product-, as props, ties and poles, in addition to lumber. And then, on the other hand, it is necessary neces-sary to study the producing power of the forests. I I Mi s GROW (. M Wf i-i- year Utah usod 60 million feet of lumber, exclusive of the saw-ed material ma-terial used In the coal and metal tninc-i which amounted to 12 million Met more, a lotal of 71 million feet. I The Year 1920 Waj a year of depression depres-sion In the lumber business, and It Is probable that In normal times the consumption would amount to not less than 125 million feet. It is not merely sawed material that our forests are called upon to furnish, however; there is the annual item of round timbers ml Similar material used, especially in our coal mines, amountnig to 7 million feet, as well as rullroud ties somewhere about 26 million feet to say nothing of on unestlmated amount of posts, poles and fuel-WOOd. Taking it all into consideration, if l'tah were absolutely cut "if from outside sources her forMf-fl would nrohahlv hi' railed ' on to supply about 20) million board feet of all kinds of " material each year At present these forests are .supplying about one-tenth of thin amount. 22 million feet to be exact, while only : million feet of this is sawed material. 111 i l l Ml FORI OTS There is in l'tah about U.000 million feet nt conll iroua timber together with j about 1,000 million feet ol aspen or ""juaklng asp" that could supply mast of our mino prop demand if tho necessity neces-sity should ails... ir L'tah Ltses 2'Hi mll- I lion feet a year it is easy to see that the '.i.OOO million feet now on the ground would last about 45 years. With industrial expansion, oil developments, develop-ments, etc, the demand will rise sharply and the forests of Utah would then only contain enough for perhaps 20 years. Similar conditions exist In the parts of .southern Idaho und western west-ern Wyoming adjacent to L'tuh. it is evident that ihc forests of thi- , lenion have got to be made more I tensive, ad productive if they arc ti supply local needs Inthe ruture. Tlu forest service is studying the productivity pro-ductivity of the forests and what fa -tors Influence their rate of growth Si , that when tho time comes it will bi possible togrow up a d 1 rop ot Umber Um-ber In the least number of year.-. Permanent areas have been set aside lor MudMntr the growth of quaking aspen near Kphralm and Clear Creek, l'tah; Iouglas fir near ('iris. I.laho. lodgejiole pine near Cokeville, yo.. and western yellow pine near Garden Valley, Ida. Mon generalized studies are carried on in different parts of the ; intermountain region each year, deals with the rate of growth of trees, tho ; conditions under which they seed and sprouttho best, and tho possibilities of STOWlng forests from planted trees in brushlanda. Tho most economlacl methods of using the trees are also Investigated. All this Is done for the purpose of assuring a permanent forest for-est industry ami a permanent wood; supply In this region. 00 |