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Show Record this witness was stricken from the record. LeRoy Chandler testified for complainant on direct ex-amination in rebuttal as follow: 5501 I am principal clerk of the Lasal National Forest. 5502 I have personally been in that forest. I can only give you the classification and acreage of the merchantable timber there be-cause we carry no record of timber that is not of merchantable size. The forest as a whole contains approximately 171,000,000 feet board measure of merchantable timber, consisting of yellow pine, Engleman spruce, Douglas for and a scattering of white pine and Alopin fir. The distribution of this timber on the Lasal Mountains is 15,346 acres of the spruce and fir type, containing approximately 50,000,000 board feet; on the Blue Mountain there are 10,485 acres, containing a stand of 54,000,000 feet of spruce, fir and pine; the South Elk Mountain has 11,337 acres containing a stand of 34,000,000 feet of yellow pine; the North Elk Mountain has 11,628 acres of merchantable yellow pine with a stand of 32,000,000 feet. The balance of the land of the Lasal Forest classified as timber land is 19,502 acres of various classes of trees, none of which occur in sufficient groups to be classed as merchantable. There are 22,647 acres of the woodland type, that is, juniper and pinon, but it has no commercial value except for posts. There are 79,748 acres of oak brush land; 528 acres of purely grass land with no timber and 7,485 acres of barren land. 5504 At the present time there are stationary miles operating in the yellow pine section of the Lasal Forest, with a yearly cut of approximately 200,000 feet of lumber that is sold to ranchers, homesteaders and merchants of Monticello and Blanding principally. It is transported to Monticello and Blanding by wagon and truck. 5505 On the Lasal Forest the range classification states 5.38 acres of land as constituting one forage acre, and for the entire forest five forage acres constitute summer range for one cow during |