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Show Forests To Help Supply Our Winter's Fuel John Q. Public was reminded this week that the national forests for-ests may offer a solution to his fuel problems for next winter. The Utah state U S D A war board urged that all families and communities com-munities make use of local wood for fuel. Last year the national forests of Uath sold 1844 cords of green fir wood and gave away 14,458,000 board feet of dead and down tim-berr, tim-berr, the greater part of which was used for fuel. The war board pointed out that such use of local wood, supplies will reduce the burden on railroads which are already very busy handling hand-ling essential war materials. Many local woods make excellent fuel, especially if cut green and allowed to season thoroughly, the war board said. The following tables ta-bles show the heating value of a cord of various species of timber in terms of pounds of coal. 1 cord of dry mountain ma-gany ma-gany equals a ton of coal. 1 cord of oak equals 1880 pounds of coal. 1 cord of juniper equals 1460 pounds of coal. 1 cord of pinion pine equals 1420 pounds of coal. 1 cord of Douglas fir equals 1360 pounds of coal. i cord of ponderosa pine equals 1160 pounds of coal. 1 cord of quaking aspen equals 1080 pounds of coal. Communities near national 'forests 'for-ests are urged to use all the wood fuel they can this winter. Get it out early and allow it to dry thoroughly, thor-oughly, the war board advised. Local forest officers will be on hand to advise regarding oppor-tunites oppor-tunites for getting wood from national na-tional forests. |
