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Show Timber Sale Is Announced By Forest Service A timber harvest of 9,344,000 board feet, in various forms of wood products with a total stumpage value of $40,000.00 is reported for the Wasatch National Na-tional Forest for the year ending end-ing December 31, forest officials said today. This amount is 20 less than the total cut for 1950 and the reduction is said to be due mainly main-ly to a shorter operating season. sea-son. The severe early winter drove timber operators out of the woods fully 30 days earlier than normal, forest rangers reported. re-ported. Divided into products the annual an-nual forest cut shows 7,221,000 board feet of spruce and fir sawtimber, 151,000 board feet of smelter, power and other poles, and 1,972,000 board feet of mine timbers. Total market value of these products is estimated esti-mated as being about a half million dollars. New sales of stumpage on the Wasatch Forest were low. . during dur-ing 1951 amounting to only 5,-346,000 5,-346,000 board feet. This was due to the fact that there were large contract carryovers from 1950. Average bid selling price for stumpage during 1951 was approximately ap-proximately $6.50 per thousand board feet, about the highest on record. The lumbering industry on the Wasatch Forest employed about 300 seasonal workers during a period of about 6V& months. Most of the woodsmen are local residents although this year, due to local labor shortages, operators oper-ators were forced to seek loggers in Idaho. Colorado, and Wyoming. Wyom-ing. The total timber cut divided by counties is, Summit, 7,483,-000; 7,483,-000; Duchesne, 1,861,000. All of the main logging operations on the Wasatch Forest are situated in the heavy timbered areas in the headwaters of the Provo, Bear, Blackfork and Duchesne Rivers. . ' Each year 25 of forest receipts re-ceipts are returned to' the states for road and school purposes and 10 for roads and trails on the National Forests. The balance of revenues is retained in the U. S. Treasury. |