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Utah.—Oiit of five mills replies were received from two, with au aggregate cut of 

 1,350,000 feet ; one estimates the cut for the Territory at 10,000,000 cubic feet of miue 

 timber aud (50,000 cords of fnel 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. 



Note.— 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 Eailroad. — 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 Eio 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, )iu 

 1886, and 625 tons (390,000 feet, B. M.) during nine months of 1887. 



Shipments of lumber and wood over Denver and Eio Grande Railroad to Rocliy Mountain 



region from points outside. 



From 



1882. 



1883. 



1884. 



1885. 



1886. 



1887 to 

 August 31. 



Total, 

 to A-ugust 

 31, 1887. 



Denver 



Colorado Springs 



Pounds. 



2, 844, 300 

 20, 000 

 648, 000 

 14, 800 

 82, 000 



Pounds. 



2, 934, 340 

 17, 000 

 280, 055 

 16, 000 

 48, 000 



Pounds. 

 802, 900 



Pounds. 

 808, 075 



Pounds. 

 787, 090 



Pounds. 

 961, 240 



Pounds. 

 9, 137, 945 

 37, 000 

 2, 350, 715 

 70, 800 

 216, 355 

 40, 000 

 1,487, 8K5 

 53, 300 

 101, 6.50 

 942, 350 



Pueblo 



Florence 



550, 090 



277, 635 

 20, 000 

 17, 300 



506, 545 

 20, 000 

 37, 055 



88, 390 



Canon 



32, 000. 









40, 000 

 160, 000 





149, 475 



108, 000 

 53, 300 



124, 700 



300, 000 



645, 710 



Santa Clara 







101,650 







La Veta 



235, 000 



232, 000 



320, 000 



155, 350 











3, 993, 575 



3, G88, 695 



1, 829, 690 



1, 524. 660 



2, 151, 750 



1, 249, 630 



*14, 438, 000 



*0r 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 tiie railways. 

 Their lines, of vast extent, stretching in every direction, make enormous 

 and unceasing demands upon the forests, and it is quite time for tbe 

 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. 



