The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-24
What Development of That Sec
tiOn of the State Would
Mean.
BILLIONS OF FEET OF
TIMBER AWAITING MILL
Iron, Coal and Oil in IneXhaust.
ibIe Quantities Would Make
Second Pennsylvania.

The forestry department OF the gov
ernment at Ogden has announced that
the Kaioab plateau, north OF the Colo
RADIO river in Utah and Arizona contains
$500, 600. 600 feet OF superior pine and flr
timber, ready for sawmllls
This means that a short distance to one
side OF the San Pedro. Los Angeles 6
Salt Lake railroad there arc virgin Tor
ests containing seventy eight feet of
lumber, or the equivalent Of three rail
road ties. for every man. woman and
child In the United States.
These forests. iudiciously cared for. are
practically everlasting, as the timber
In century.
The country covered by this timber IS
about thirty-one townships In extent
thirty three miles square
With all this timber maturing and then
decayng within its borders. the United
States In general is every day importing
timber and railroad ties from foreign
countries. and Utah is bringing practical
~ all the timber IL consumes from the
Pacific states OF Oregon and Washing
ton. This would not be Objectionable II
there were no timber at home, but with
forests rotting this side OF the Colorado
river importing timber and lumber Is
suicidal,
Anxious to Develop State
Every inhabtant of Utah is wild to see
the state develop and grow wealthy, and
none, whether they be merchant. manu-
facturer, mechanic, laborer. or profess
sionals, will fall 10 realize that sending
TO the Pacific coast for timber, cast for
structural iron, TO wyoming for coal and
to California for fuel oil. while we have
all these useful materials at home. Is In
tensely Shortslghted
These articles OF prime necessity, all
Sithin easy reach in the southern coun-
ny, are imported In large quantities all
the time and the money TO pay for them
IS sent out by every mail and express
Lrain,
Need Railroad Facilities.
The reason why coal iron, oil and tim
Der are not produced In large quanti-
ties IN southern Utah and brought north
is because there is no railroad 10 carry
them to the San Pedro line where il
crosses Iron county,
The Iron Mountain. ST. George &
Grand Canyon Railroad company was
lately incorporated with the design Of
building a line from Thermo on the San
Pedro road south through the Iron. coal
and oil region 10 the heart Of the kai-
bak timber forests. and thence to the
Grand canyon of the Colorado and ST.
George.
This proposed railroad will reach the
coal and iron properties within the first
fifty miles, fuel oil within eighty miles
and the endless timber forests within
100 miles OF its initial point.
II would not be difficult to complete
it TO the coal and iron i'm six months. 10
the oil in nine months and to the tim
Der within year, Besides insuring the
development OF the iron, coal. fuel oil
and timber. the road would lead 70 the
rapid occupation OF an agricultural and
frult-growing region. with an uneQualed
climate. that would easily provide homes
for a rural population as large as that
now occupying the entire states of Utah
and Idaho,
The Utah commercial organizations
that have been doing such effective work
during the past week would do well 70
encourage and aid the Iron Mountain,
St George & Grand Canyon railroad TO
build It's line Nothing that the CONNER
cial club could Interest itself In would do
more than this 10 give impetus and
permanent stability to the business OF
the entire intermountaln region.