Show sawmills cut 14 million board feet twenty seven sawmills on the dixie national forest cut a total of oc 14 board ft of ponderosa pine during 1016 in addition a tot total of hoard board ft of mine props poles cordwood and juniper fence posts were cut by far far the greater part of the was cut from that portion of the dixie that surrounds Pan gultch tho the mammoth working circle west of oc pan gultch furnished board feet of and the east fork working circle lying east of panguitch had a cut of hoard board feet which means that almost 30 per ce cent nt of all the cut in 7 utah jt ah was produced in the panguitch Pan gultch area during 1946 this has meant an important contribution I 1 to 0 the state tor for nearly all of this timber was used in utah A large proportion of it was used tor for housing desperately needed by thousands of veterans some went into mines to keep the states industrial machinery working two hundred fifty thousand feet of oe poles fence posts and cordwood coid wood was used by local farmers tarin erB and ranchers lan chers in F addition to board feet of if toi for necessary farm construction all of oe tills this timber was cut under a selection system which means that logging operations are aie so conducted on ducted tha eliat t there are sufficient trees left to protect the cut area bioni el ei 06 oslon I 1 oil all and d to insure a plentiful pitiful c crop rot of oc young loung trees to replace those cut out |