Wealth of the Uintah Basin, Utah, and automobile guide .. . Douglasfir and Aspen; Engleman spruce and Alpine fir, growing to anelevation of 11,000 feet above sea level. Above this, along therocky ledges and under the brinks of the mountain crests lie largebanks of perpetual snow that feed the streams continuously. In volume of production, lodge-pole pine predominates, form-ing probably 67% of the entire forest production of this moun-tain system. The estimated amount of merchantable timberapproximates a volume of three-fourths of a billion feet boardmeasui-e of wood that can be sawed up and ma
Wealth of the Uintah Basin, Utah, and automobile guide .. . Douglasfir and Aspen; Engleman spruce and Alpine fir, growing to anelevation of 11,000 feet above sea level. Above this, along therocky ledges and under the brinks of the mountain crests lie largebanks of perpetual snow that feed the streams continuously. In volume of production, lodge-pole pine predominates, form-ing probably 67% of the entire forest production of this moun-tain system. The estimated amount of merchantable timberapproximates a volume of three-fourths of a billion feet boardmeasui-e of wood that can be sawed up and manufactured intolumber suitable for building purposes. One billion feet boardmeasure of material that will make ties enough to buld two roadbeds across the entire North American continent from east towest and maintain them indefinitely. From the saw timber, lum-bei- of very good grades can be made and at the present timeten dirterent lumbering concerns are manufacturing it into build-ing material, all to be used for building purposes in the UintahBasin. 33. W !•: A I-I (» K UK IT TNT ATT I*. AS IN, ITAII r]i(iii this same inoinilaiii aica, wliicli comprises appi-oxiiualc-ly one and one-Iotirth iiiillioii acres, valuable forage tor stockiiidws ill profusion. ii|ion wliicii. at tlie ]ii-eseiit time, 200,000 headot slicep. head cattle and 10,000 head of hoises arebeing grazed during the .sunuuer season. Tiiese grazing })rivilegesare allotted by the forest service to the resident ranch owners,living u|ion agricultuial land upon which hay and grain is raisedfoi- feeding [lurposes during the winter months. The forest rangeis made a part of a rotary system, whereby stock are fed fromthe products of ranch property in winter time, grazed on the lowrolling lands in the s|ning time and on the higher mountainranges in the summer time, creating a system that enhances the\aliu of rancii projierty and gives the farmer greater returns forliis products.
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