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sider that an average of 150 years is necessary to grow 
a new crop of timber suitable for the market. The ten 
billion feet then, will give us an allowable annual cut of 
sixty-seven million board feet from our National Forests 
in Utah without depreciating the present forest capital 
or stand of growing timber. On this basis the present 
forest resources of the State could meet only about 34 per 
cent of the present demand. How will the increased de- 
mand which is certain to come with an increase in popula- 
tion and further colonization be met? Of the present 
demand approximately 87 per cent is now supplied from 
the Pacific Coast. The present supply could accomodate an 
increased demand of about forty million board feet with- 
out changing the amount imported, or it could reduce the 
present importations to about one hundred thirty-five 
million board feet with the consumption remaining as at 
present. It is therefore evident that Utah is not now and 
never will be self-sustaining in the matter of lumber and 
forest products. 
We should here stop to consider the logic of relying 
upon the Pacific Coast to supply the greater part or all 
of our needs indefinitely. The East is already cut out. 
The Lake States are now making large importations of 
lumber and other forest products. The best data avail- 
able show that the great southern pineries will be cut 
over in not to exceed ten years. The Pacific Coast, there- 
fore, is the only region left from which the country as a 
whole can draw its supply. Will this region, whose 
supply is popularly considered inexhaustible (as has 
also been the case with the East, the Lake States and the 
South) be able to supply the increasing demand forever? 
The best statistics available do not bear out this assump- 
tion. Itis probable that the Pacific Coast region will also 
be cut out in something like 50 years. With prevailingly 
high freight rates, increased settlement of agricultural 
land and the depletion of the forests of the Northwest, it 
is becoming very evident to students of forest economics, 
that each State will be required to provide its own timber 
to the extent of maintaining all potential forest land in a 
productive condition. 
The rough, spiral grained, knotty product available 
