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Thus, while they are cutting the 61 million feet annually of the main harvest, they have another separate operation going through the whole stand of timber and weeding out the over-ripe, the defective, and such other trees as are not healthy and growing. There are two reasons for doing this. The first, just stated, is to harvest this timber while it still has value. The second is to save water for the healthy trees. Those old and defective trees consume a large share of the sparse rainfall of the region, so by cutting them out they preserve the water supply for the better purpose of sustaining more valuable trees. This, to me, is most interesting. There is probably no other part of the Forest Service timber growing domain where the deliberate saving of the water supply is practically taken into consideration in the harvesting of the timber.

When the main forest has been gone over by this "mortality anticipation cutting" as they call it, this part of the Coconino Forest program will terminate. From that time on and stretching forward into perpetuity, this forest will contain about four billion feet of commercial Pine timber, while providing the average of 61 million feet for cutting each year. They figure that this forest will be cut in cycles of about twenty years. Where they are cutting today, they will be cutting again about twenty r/€?rs hence, and the great foresa remain undiminished.

The regular cut of 61 million feet annually, is logged and manufactured by two big double-band sawmill plants at Ffagstaff, and by about a dozen small mills. The large mills are operated by the Southwest Lumber Company and the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company, and they get about 47 of the 61 million sold annually by the Forest Service. The dozen small mills get the remainder. The 9 .million feet of old and defective timber that is being cut in the "mortality anticipation" program, is manufactured into lumber by several portable mills that follow the foresters'

"There will always be an England" they say, and barring some gigantic act of God, there will always be four billion feet of timber in the Coconino, providing the material for the homes of rnan for all time to come. At the present time the regular cut of 61 million feet from the Coconino, plus the 9 million special cutting of old timber, plus the regular harvest of 35 million feet from the other National Forests of Coconino County, gives that county a total production of 105 million feet a year from the National Forests, which will be reduced 9 million feet later on. But the remaining dependable sustained yield is a grand harvest indeed. * *

The U. S. Forest Service will some day be able to.quote the words of the late Henry Hardtner ?nd say-"the land You gave me forty years ago has more timber on it today than when I first got it, and I have been cutting off it ever since." Truly we are making great strides in perpetuating our forests, and the example of this particular forest in Arizona is something to look upon with pride, and to speak of with praise.