Show treating plants throughout the east generady gene raly and while fine zinc chloride ivas was used at the beginning i ng and is still more largely used than creosote in the west creosote is to the common preservative va used in in the aas east it is better bertei adapted toa to a wet climate since it ft does not leach out easily and since three fourths of the supply has been baen derived from europe creosote is not sa so much more ex pen bensine siNe than zinc in the east sixty eight per cent of the creosote has been obtained from germany and this supply is now cut off so that the time is particularly opportune for the development of an industry in utah for the production of cheap and effective wood preservative this is the most desirable on account of the probable increased local demand for a preservative of the highest value while the Burnett izing process using the zinc chloride has hitherto been in high favor because cheaper the burlington at its large plant at sheridan wyoming is now preparing to use creosote and the northern pacific at paradise montana has been using it for some time the excellent service that is being secured from fro M treated lodgepole pine ties from northeast utah and western wyoming by two of the foremost transcontinental lines indicates th that at other vast and untouched eJ forests of this wood will at an early date be sought by other roads which are now importing ties hundreds of miles zinc chloride must be imported from east cast of the mississippi river and if gilsonite of which the deposits are plentiful and nearby measures up to its promised worth the foresight of these men wil be of real value to the commonwealth mon wealth the red river lumber company of california plans to hang cups on western yellow pine trees adjacent to the lassen national forest the outcome of this experiment is of interest in determining the profitableness ta of turpentine 0 operations I 1 pera in southern utah and n northern or arizona when that country is provided with railroad transportation facilities for each of the eight years of 1906 to 1913 the average re eints per hundred acres of national forests in district 4 were utah wyoming idaho A and Nev nevada nevada k 07 all aroythe average for the wenty two to states or territories which contain national forests in h expend ures per hundred acres these thesa states rank tenth fourteenth nineteenth and respectively idaho utah wyoming and nevada twenty three men planted an vs gf g sage f ge of trees ayr ryr sr roan man by the slit method on the Tar ghee b I 1 forest near ashton idaho t thia is month two men with lafr tocks tock the holes hole sand and pla for a thed who comes an din dill serta the ohp plants good BW and moisture conditions AM essential for the slit method batot butot baft af trees planted on the last fall 85 86 per ced 4 are re |