Show Increasing Activity and Business ness Cause Growth of Ranger Station Except for the exterior paint the Ranger Kamas-Ranger Station remodeling remodeling eling job has now been completed ed This job has about doubled the useable space within the office and was necessitated by increased ed activity and business on the Kamas District We would be happy to have visitors Inspect the office any week Monday through Friday Inclusive inclusive in in- In- In The present organization now consists of ot Corinne Pitt itt clerk receptionist receptionist receptionist re re- re- re Roval Royal Davies general district assistant Frank Grover Forester handling grazing plans plane and analysis Elmer V V. Richards as assistant ranger and Ken Maughan as district ranger I Timber Cut l According to Ken Maughan district manager during calendar year 1959 there was cut on the Kamas District seven million two hundred twenty thousand board feet of lodgepole pine and spruce Of this board feet 4 board feet or 63 per cent of the total was cut In tn Summit County Blazzard Lumber Company of Kamas Great Lake Timber Company Company Com pany p of Hailstone Greys River lUver Lumber Company of ot Kamas Rothe Lumber Company of MIdway MId lid way Reed Smithies of llamas Kamas and Union Timber Company Compan of ot Kamas cut the bulk of the tim tim- ber her In addition to quite a number of corral pole sales were ere ere made not only to local people peo pie but to people from Salt Lake valley Of particular Importance to Summit County is the ta tact fact t that 25 per ller cent of the gross receipts I rum irom grazing ana ano tees roes oa OU twos such as Organizational Sites Situ summer homes bomes an and commercial enterprises such as lodges and other improvements constructed on National Forest lands Is 18 returned returned re re- turned to the county The amount which each county receives is pro rated a according to acreage of forest land within the county Kamas is rapidly becoming a lumber umber center and In addition to the lie timber ou cut locally mu much timber tim lim- ber bet is hauled in from other areas processed aed here bore and shipped hipped by truck to various markets Within a short time the sales program fur fOr 1960 1860 will wUl be announced ed It will wUl undoubtedly IY Jn Include lude timber on the tho Upper Shingle Setting Creek Greek area |