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 iSgg, 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. Cations 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. AH 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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