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wood pulp, and certain types of matches, and because it is an 

 odorless and tasteless wood it is being used to some extent for 

 boxing products such as butter, cheese, and chocolate, which easily 



absorb flavors. With increasing demands for wood 



Aspen of Value p roc j uc ts of this kind, these stands will ultimately 



poses. peCia Uf " nave a marketable value. Other species included 



under the heading " miscellaneous timber'' are white 

 fir (locally known as black balsam), blue spruce, and limber pine. 



In addition to these strictly timber trees there are two lesser kinds 

 of evergreens which assume considerable importance at low altitudes, 



both within and outside national forests — pinon pine 



Pin on Pine and juniper. It is estimated that within national 



and Juniper Cov- f ores |g there is at least 4 million cords of this material, 



but Have only ^irich is used chiefly for firewood and posts. The 



Local Value. amounts outside national forest boundaries have 



never been estimated, but must total many million 

 cords. Since, however, this material in many instances is inaccessible 

 and has only a local use, these stands play little part in the Utah 

 timber situation. 



TIMBER CONSUMPTION 



Accurate statistics on the consumption of timber are not available, 

 but rough figures indicate that Utah uses between 175 and 200 million 

 board feet of forest products annually, divided approximately as 

 follows : 



Table 1. — Annual consumption of timber in Utah 



Use Quantity- 



Lumber, including sawed material used in mines. 



Props for coalmines 



Railroad ties 



Fuel and miscellaneous cordwood 



Posts, poles, etc 



Total 



Board feet 



130, 000, 000 



7, 000, 000 



25, 000, 000 



20, 000, 000 



6, 000, 000 



188,000,000 



To balance against this consumption there is in the national forests 

 of Utah 5,452 million board feet of saw timber, together with over 

 7}4 million cords of small aspen, pinon, and juniper, useful for fuel, 

 poles, and posts. As the 7J^ million cords is equivalent to approxi- 

 mately 2 y% billion feet of saw timber, the State has a total stand of 

 national forest timber approximately 40 times its annual consump- 

 tion. 



UTILIZATION 



At present only slight use is made of the timber resources of the 



State. According to estimates based on 1920 and 1921 figures, only 



about 373^ million board feet of Utah timber is cut 



Only 37^ Mil- annually. Twenty million feet of this is cordwood; 



from the Local ^^ million feet is props, posts, and poles, and other 



Timberlands. uses in the round. Only about 9 million feet is saw 



timber. The entire cut, except approximately 16 



million feet of fuel and round material from the juniper woodland 



