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Show riiOKPEHOVrl Ll'MllKH INDCSTHY IX THE IXTEIIMOVXTAIX KEGIOX. - ..t The timber sale business during 1923 on the National Koreuts of the Interraountaln District was extremely aatlsfactory, says District Forester It. H. Kutledije of the U. S. Forest Service. Ser-vice. Sales totaling 181.650.00C coard feet were mudo during the year This was the largest amount of tlm. ber ever sold In ono year slnco the organization of tho Forest Service, with the exception of 1920, when the amount slightly excoodod two hund red million board f'0t. While the largo amount Bold In 1920 was due to a single exceptionally exceptional-ly largo sale In wostern Wyoming, the amount sold this yoar Indicates a more normal (frowth In tho lumber Industry In this region as tho sales are not groatly concentrated in any one place. Tho widespread development develop-ment Is lndlcatotl by tho number of different forests making exceptionally exceptional-ly large sales. The Targheo National Forest with headquarters nt Saint Authony, Idaho, la tho leading forest with sales of approxlruntoly 66 mil lion feot. Tho Tayotto National For eet with headquarters at Emmett. Idnho, sold 8 million. The Ilolse National Forest with headquarters at IIoIhu, Idaho, sold 3D million and the Idaho Natloiuil Forest with head-uurters head-uurters at McCull, Idaho, 11 million ,foot. Tho roHt of the Forests show-lens show-lens rnmarkablo sales for tho year, although on nouo of. them could the Llmhor salo huffinone be olnsned as riinor. Thow sales, sotno of which j will run ten. years before tlio laHt of ,tho tltnhor Ifi cut, will bring :lntn the 'Government n ruvenne of about JIM, 000. Of th'iR amount per ct'nt will go to tho CViunty In which tho salo-t aro mado n'ord:lng to law In IJou of taxes on National l"oront Lands In theso countlos. Appu-oxlmately 4 0 million foot of timber wero cut t li I -t year. This Is not record breaklni;, as It has beetu ex ioclod three times dur-Iniic dur-Iniic the laiit firtoen years, js'ever-tho-lei. It lg considerably iiliov thu nv-eniKo. nv-eniKo. Tho lumber Ituhtntry fi looldnit forward to a porlod,of ex pansion In this rcK Inn, ond It Is. to b expected that thhs amount will he itncroasctl to a vory marked dereo In the next few yen.rs. A number of limber nale.i are no iv tH'Intr nenolliatod ml It Is bolleveii; that 1924 111 show no |