FOREST AND RANGE RESOURCES OF UTAH 



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carloads a month were shipped from these kilns, chiefly to the 

 smelters in Salt Lake Valley. 



Utah lumber operations have never been on a large scale. There 

 were, in 1927, 81 active sawmills in the State. The annual cut of 

 lumber fell from 25,709,000 feet board measure in 1880 to 7,623,000 

 feet in 1928. 



AMOUNT AND USE OF UTAH TIMBER 



TIMBER RESOURCES 



About 5,000,000 acres in Utah are timbered. Several million 

 acres more are thought to be suitable for forest planting. The tim- 

 ber resources are capable, 

 under a good system of 

 forest management, of pro- 

 ducing one-half the lumber 

 requirements of the State. 

 (Fig. 30.) 



Utah has approximated 

 4,965,000,000 board feet of 

 saw timber and 10,000,000 

 cords of fuel, pole, and 

 post material, equivalent to 

 approximately 3,000,000,- 

 000 feet of saw timber, all 

 within the national forests. 

 This is divided by species 

 as shown in Table 3. 



The saw timber outside 

 of the national forests is 

 insignificant commercially. 

 The aspen, pinon, and juni- 

 per outside of the national 

 forests must total many 

 million cords, but since the 

 stands are in many in- 

 stances inaccessible and have only local use, they play little part in 

 the Utah timber situation. 



TIMBER CONSUMPTION 



Accurate statistics on the consumption of timber are not avail- 

 able, but rough figures indicate that Utah uses 188,000.000 board 

 feet of forest products annually, divided approximately as follows: 



Use Quantity- 

 Lumber, including sawed material used in mines 



feet, board measure— 130, 000, 000 



Props for coal mines do 7, 000, 000 



Railroad ties do 25, 000, 000 



Fuel and miscellaneous cordwood do 20, 000, 000 



Posts, poles, etc do 6,000,000 



Total do 188, 000, 000 



UTILIZATION 



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

 State. Only about 37,500,000 board feet of Utah's timber is cut 



Figure 29. — Hewn ties in Black's Fork drive 



