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acres better adapted for timber production than for other purposes. 

 If this were all utilized as described above, and one half of the lumber 

 cut were shipped, while the other half was used locally, the railroads 

 would move annually over 200,000 cars of lumber. Is it unreasonable 

 to expect that railroad executives will spend more thought in the future 

 on the conservation of tributary natural resources, and less on the 

 manipulation of funds, than has been the case in the past? The only 

 alternative may have been already foreshadowed by the action of the 

 federal government in undertaking an extensive railroad policy in 

 Alaska for the proper development of the immense resources of that 

 territory. 



More, perhaps, than any other class, the forester is concerned with 

 the material prosperity of the future; not, however, from any narrow 

 professional sense, but because of the far-reaching influence of such 

 prosperity upon the development of the future people. He may, there- 

 fore, be pardoned for looking at some of these matters from a somewhat 

 different angle from that in which they are usually regarded. 



