The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-23

hdruy IMAM Sheep, and are Dctter nus
tiers for food They are fond of cedar
fight shy of goats, which reduces the
losses in that respect Their feeces
command good prices, and the profit,
when losses are considered, is much
| larger than that realized in sheep-rais~
ing. Goat fever, while not a myth,
is easily avoided by proper sanitary
conditions IN the vicinity of the herd
ers' camps. The statements herein
made of the livestock industry of Kane
| county as to number of animals and
range conditions should be applied to
the "strip.''
Scarcity Of water for range stock is
the one great drawback. But that OBJ
stacle is being slowly overcome by stock
owners, who range their animals out
side Of the forest reserves, and by the
government within the reserves. Many
| of the springs and tanks in the rocks
are not accessible to stock Wherever
feasible water is piped down to acces,
sible points and husbnuded in pools and
troughs. And when the work of water
reclamation shall have been completed
the capacity Of the range will have
been easily doubled
Coal and Copper.
| OF the mineral kingdom, coal and
copper are the only present available
representatives Like Garfield county,
Kane has practically incxhaustiblc fields
of coal. 1t is conservatively estimated
that 100000 tons of copper ore, run
ming from 2 TO 60 per cent, is visible
in the workings of the Coconino and
|Petosky holdings on the Kaibab plateau
above the other, and is interbedded
with mineralized limestone that carries
an average of per cent in the yellow
metal.
Kaibab Forest Reserve.
John II, Clark, supervisor of the
| kaibab forest reserve, gives the fol
lowing interesting description Of that
singular areal division: "The Kai-
bab plateau rises abruptly from the
floor of the plains TO the east and
west, beginning at an elevation of 5000
feet above sea level and rising to
5000 feet at its southern descent to-
wards the Colorado river. The gentle
ascension from north TO south is owing
to the fact that the strata descends from
the south to the north on an inclina-
tion of about degrees, The south
sion planes to the altitude of 5000 feet
before dropping by terraces into the
Grand Canyon Of the Colorado.
"There are valleys on the plateau,
but they are nowhere more than mile
wide, and with the exception of two
which drain into Warm Spring canyon
an Snake gulch they have no general
fall. thus forming small catchment ba-
sins with no outlets on the surface.
The east, west and south sides of the
plateau are cut by numerous canyons
and gulches which, on the west and
south. break into deep and impossible
canyons at an elevation Of between
$500 and 1000 feet.
| tErnp, Eunah (raaly CaD,,op on tbo
west the country rises in terraces of
sandstone to an elevation of 1000 feet.
thence abruptly 1000 feet TO rolling
bench at the base of the plateau proper,
This section forms the main portion Of
the winter range.
"Porous sandstone forms the cap of
the entire formation within the forest
Underneath this is a layer Of limestone
which collects the surface water, which
later on. emerges in seeps and springs
in gulches and canyons. In tho breaks
to the Colorado river. at such depths
as to make them useless for anything
but power purposes, are five creeks, to-
wit Shinumo, Tapeats, Bright Angel
Dragon and Clear creeks. Their sources
are at points in the hard limestone and
granite, some 5000 feet below the rim
rock, and they issue in full volume
from one to three springs each. The
water issues with tremendous force
proving it to be under great pressure.
Forest Area
"The only available area of saw tim.
ber is situated within the confines Of
the Kaibab forest proper, and is con.
fined TO elevations between $500 and
5000 feet. The exact acreage of timber
is not known. but is approximately os-
timated at 650,000 acres-the country
is rs yet unsurveyed. Yellow pine
comprises the larger percentage of the
stand, with commercial species of fir a
close second, there being very little of
the understandable varieties.
Rough estimates give stand of
5000, 100000 feet, board measure. Vel
low pine under eighteen inches diam
eter, breast high. and fr under fifteen
inches is omitted from the estimate,
This first crop will yield 100000, 900
feet per year, and the timber under
fifteen and eighteen inches will make
a second cut within a few years after
the larger trees are removed Mature
trees, only, being cut, the forest will
continue to repeat itself through TWEEN
ty-fve and thirty-year periods for any
length of time. barring, of course, the
ravages of fire and insects. Fire is
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