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Utah,—Out of five mills replies were received from two, with an aggregate cut of 
1,350,000 feet ; one estimates the cut for the Territory at 10,000,000 cubic feet of mine 
timber and 60,000 cords of fuel and fencing. 
This estimate assumes that the cut in Wahsatch and Summit Counties, which is 
placed at 2,000,000 feet B. M. lumber, 300,000 cubic feet mine timber, and 12,000 
cords fuel and fence material, represents 20 per cent. of the total cut of the Territory. 
Colorado.—Out of some eighty mills written to, of which several have gone out of 
business, thirty have replied, reporting an aggregate cut of 18,820,000 feet for the year 
1886. From various estimates by counties, the total cut of mill timber can not be 
short of 75,000,000 to 100,000,000 feet, of which 25,000,000 are used in Lake County 
(Leadville) alone. 
No replies from New Mexico. (Estimation, see page 141.)—-B. E. Fernow. 
Nore.—We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. E. R. Murphy, auditor of the Den- 
ver and Rio Grande Railroad, and of Mr, J. A. Munroe, general freight agent of the 
Union Pacific Railroad, for the following interesting statements regarding the move- 
ment of lumber and other wood from outside points to the Rocky Mountain region. 
Union Pacific Railroad.—The total amount of lumber hauled into the Rocky Mount- 
ain region from points on the line of this road was, in 1886, 53,786 tons (33,616,250 
feet, B. M.), and during nine months of 1887, 65,437 tons (40,808,125 feet, B. M.). Of 
this amount 24,595 tons (15,371,880 feet), or 45 per cent., were from Oregon in 1886, 
and 40,918 tons (25,573,750 feet), or 60 per cent., from Oregon in 1887. 
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.—As appears from the following detailed state- 
ment, this road during the same period imported 1,075 tons (672,422 feet, B. M.) in - 
1886, and 625 tons (390,000 feet, B. M.) during nine months of 1887. 
Shipments of lumber and wood over Denver and Rio Grande Railroad to Rocky Mountain 
region from points outside. 


1887 to |Letal, 233: 
August S18) ue August 
From 1882. 1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. 
- 31, 1887. 
| 

Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. | Pounds. 









WD OnWieRee eet eee ees 2, 844, 300 | 2, 934, 340 802, 900 808, 075 787, 090 961, 240 | 9,137, 945 
Colorado Springs.....- 20, 000 GUD deposntcsselSasocdassesllbaswascdac \lcooo- : | 37, 000 
Rweblotes see secs ser 648, 000 280, 055 550, 090 277, 635 506, 545 88,390 ; 2,350, 715 
WOnenCOsen sansa 14, 800 165000 Sl eaegeree nce 20, 000 2050008 | Sasa i 70, 800 
Cannone teen ct coe: 82, 000 48, 000 32, 000 17, 300 BHIEEH isconsescoce 216, 355 
BARN CS ere siscmec ete ose = Pie palin ieee tales Beek |SHoS Scenes anssceuo ran |Scacas obue 40, 000 | 40, 000 
PADISH ADA Neca cece ese 149, 475 108, 000 124, 700 300, 000 645, 710 160, 000 ; 1, 487, 8&5 
EMO Oe seierce oe bees Genes 8 BS pitt oe ecw Somes ee ass oo Boel lueeecetc ce 53, 300 
Santa Clara -.-.....-.- Facies Self csie Oe ore ee teers UBER eSeesesess lessaoe ee: 101, 650 
OVC tase oe 235, 000 232, 000 32080008 Reemeneeeee bp aH) I Rope soos 942, 350 
3, 993, 575 | 3, 688, 695 | 1, 829, 690 | 1, 524, 660 | 2,151, 750 | 1, 249, 630 |*14, 438, 000 

* Or 4 512,000 feet. 
RAILWAYS. 
With the exception of forest fires, it is conceded that no one agency 
consumes the forests of the country so rapidly as do the railways. 
Their lines, of vast extent, stretching in every direction, make enormous 
and unceasing demands upon the forests, and it is quite time for the 
railroad corporations, as well as for the public, which must suffer by 
any impediments to cheap railroad transportation, to interest them- 
selves in a better management of forest supplies.* 
While it is true that railroad companies legitimately require large 
quantities of timber, it is not less true that in many cases they use the 
timber resources of the country in a most wasteful and destructive 

*See Bulletin No. 1, Department of Agriculture, 1887, Forestry Division, on the 
relation of railroads to forest supplies, with appendices, 

