Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-14
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SAL I LAKE GOULD
OWN v N CITY FOREST
This Is Conclusion Of Senator
Smoot After Summer Abroad
Studying Situation.
RESOURCE CONSERVATION
RESOURCE CONSERVATION
1t Is an Art He Says That In.
America Is StilFin Its
Infancy.
European system Culls for City ana
ID State Reserves as Well as National
With Inventory Of Every Tree

With Inventory Of Every Tree.
Interesting new light upon the sys-
TENS through which the world is saw
All to the next generation, its resources
in forests and watersheds. is furnished
In a report which Senator Smoot of
Utah is preparing to be submitted to
the next Congress.
According to Senator Shoots Views.
gained through a. summer spent in
European conservation centers, the
saving of American forests is busi-.
ness yet in its infancy. Utah may ex-t
pect great things from an advance
nlent Of the art. and this advancement
Is to be advocated before Congress.
Senator Shoots investigation was
made at the instance Of President
Roosevelt, who named him after the
recent conference of governors on
matters of general interest in which
\ they al participated to be chairman
of the committee to devise ways and
\ means to save American forests, and
alnember of the executive committee
considering all natural resources.
OMIitu ny ii Ill WHICH
every tree is numbered. in Which the
age Of each Is known, and in which the
cutting OF one year can never exceed
the growth OF the year previous. is u
y contemplation little new to this sec
ton of the country
Yet that is exactly what Senator
8 Shoots report shows to be entirely
practicable for Salt Lake City to own,
and what the city OF Zurich now owns.
In the Zurich, forest the big limbs go
into lumber. when they are cut, the lit
tie limbs lntoax and hammer handles.
the Knots into kindling, and the small
scraps into excelsior. There is-no such
thing asa wasted limb or branch, nor
the cutting of m Immature tree! Each
\ tree cut Is replaced Immediately by a
< Seeding SO that the ground shall 90
ahead producing a crop for the genera
tiongof a century ahead of now.
The trip as described by Senator
. Smoot In an interview follows:
INTEREST GROWING.
ZIG After visitin gthe forests OF Ger
many, France and Switzerland and see
b ing the great value of their forests,
am more enthused than ever over the
X question of preserving, properly admin
fstering, and wisely using our forests.
One hundred years ago European coun-
tries gave little attention to their TIM
Der lands; but when the. scarcity Of
timber became so appalling and the
continual overlooking OF rivers with the
consequent destruction of property
threatened them, the inhabitants of
cities as well as the farmers realized
the seriousness of the situation and
awOke to the necessity of preserving
and protecting their forests and of
5reforestering their once tinlbered areas
After years of experiments and experi-
/. encc they have finally adopted success
f1ll Dlpt l01S or Ill their. h.
eds cannot be operated by us, as our
conditions differ in many. respects from
theirs; bu. the fundamental principle
r is the same and we would do we'll to
follow many things in their systems
sWITzERLAND'S METHODS.
"One of the best administered for
csts visited was the .Sihlwald near
Zurich, Switzerland. This forest Is
owned by the city of Zurich and is the
best administered forest in the world.
1t contains nearly $500 acres and is di-
vided into 81 districts, each district
4 containing only trees of a certain age,
SO that all trees arb separated according
to their age. AS a general rule in
Switzerland when tree reaches the
age of 100 years, it Is considered ma
tured and more profitable to cut into
timber. and it is Immediately replaced
by another Seeding. AT the beginning
of the year every tree in the Sihl-
wald is measured and the history of
Its growth during the year is carefully
recorded. In this way complete
stock -taking, as it were, of the forest
IS made every year showing the exact
growth OF the trees and the amount
of lumber in feet produced by the for
est during the year. 1t is the, rule of
the management of the forest to cut
no more timber from the forest than
has been grown during the preceding
year. SO the amount of timber never
decreases. The timber that is cut Is
generally from the oldest timber,
EACH TREE NUMBERED.
every tree is numbered, and a per-
son can select any tree in the forest by
number. go to the office, get the record,
and dead the history of the tree from
the time it was a Seeding. Not a sin
gle foot of timber in the SihlWald
Is allowed to go to waste. Right in the
center of the forest there are estah-
lished a saw mill and a manufacturing
plant where every stick of timber is
utilized The small pieces are made
into various articles such as handles
for hammers, picks. shovels, etc. Pick
cts are made on the ground; Knots are
carefully cut up into klnuiins Wopu
and sold in small bundles to the people
of Zurich small bits are manufactured
into excelsior. The dry limbs are re-
moved from the trees, and every Fri
day the poor people Of zurich are per, per,
rlitted to gather all the broken ana
falIen dead limbs and carry them horne
for their own use. III order that only
poor people viii get the benefit Of o the
dry and dead limbs, the parties secur-
ing them must pack them away on
their backs. no carts or wagons are az E
loved for this purpose. The cost OF
administration of this forest Is :. about
.sls.5o an acre annually, while the ere. re-
ceipts per amount to sss2 2, lsebi4 oi
a net profit TO the city OF Mur ,., nd Nd
! sri. Is per acre. The SUPERVISORS anu
rangers have had comfortable homes .,,s
butt for them in different paf ,on q w jfs
tt,.r, they we're all highly elated over
the pleasure they have in Their MorR,
1t seems that there is never 80. 9 Sl,am ,,n
In the administration of the forest IN
M death removes the man in charge.
GERMAN SYSTEM
.1,r,,n zurich went to Munich,
C,er,iany. for the purpose OF. WISHING isl;
particularly the experiment sta a.. 70 y