FOREST POLICY. 



The Mexicans along the Rio Grande and Pecos have irri- 

 gated small farms for centuries. 



In the east the flooding of rice fields by pumping has re- 

 cently gained favor. 



In 1899, 50,000 acres of farmland were irrigated, yielding 

 crops worth $539,000 from irrigation systems costing $1,028,000. 



FORESTRY CONDITIONS OF UTAH: 



1. Area: 13% of the State, or 10,000 square miles, are 

 wooded. 



2. Physiography: The western and eastern thirds of the 

 State are barren. The central third is traversed by the Wahsatch 

 Range, which drains eastward into the Colorado River and west- 

 ward into Salt Lake, Utah Lake and Sevier Lake. 



3. Distribution is little known. In the foothills scrub oaks, 

 nut pine, cedar and juniper occur. Best timber (very poor) ob- 

 tained from the limber white pine. Higher up in the mountains 

 occur blue spruce (Picea pungens), white spruce (Engelmann) 

 and Douglas fir. Yellow pine seems rare, except in the San Pete 

 and San Pitch Ranges. Near Salt Lake the mines have con- 

 sumed all accessible timber. Canons are lined with cottonwoods 

 and box elder. 



4. Forest ownership: Reserves contain 1,029,760 acres. 

 Large Indian reservation in the northeast called the Uintah Indian 

 reservation. Railroads own alternating sections as usual. Lum- 

 ber firms own very little. 



5. Use: Mine props and fence posts are in chief demand. 

 Coal is cheap. All timber is practically cull; still, log run limber 

 white pine sells at $40 a thousand. Value of timber output, in 

 1900, only $214,000, less than the figures given in the last three 

 census. Stumpage is reported worth $1.32; logs at mill, $5.31. 

 Eighty-one mills of $1,224 average investment. Two very small 

 tanneries, but no pulp industry. 



6. Forestry movement: People and legislature are appre- 

 hensive of the necessity of forest protection, as shown by peti- 

 tions to Congress and the Governor's messages. Shade trees 

 planted in cities and on farms, especially box elder, sycamore, 

 cottonwood and lombardy poplar. 



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