FOREST NOTES 461 



of which 15,115 acres is pubhc land, Forest Officer and found to be more 



the remainder having been heretofore valuable for agriculture than for Forest 



disposed of under the public land laws, purposes. Those whose applications 



The President, upon Secretary Lane's within the Apache National Forest were 



recommendation, has, also signed a favorably acted upon during the month 



Proclamation enlarging the Fillmore of April are: H. R. Hynson, Clifton, 



National Forest in Utah to the extent Arizona ; Amos Reamtsma, Eagar, Ari- 



of 91,630 acres additional. This action zona. In addition to this, 1,329 acres 



was taken principally in order to secure were listed to applicants within other 



a better administrative boundary for the national forests in Arizona, and 1,728 



forest and to protect the water shed in acres within national forests in New 



the vicinity of the town of Beaver. The -dexico. 



additional withdrawn land is largely 



surveyed and unappropriated. 



The annual meeting of the North 



Carolina Forestry Association, which 



The Canadian Parks Branch has just was unavoidably postponed from April 



gotten out a new fire-warning notice for to June, has been called to meet in 



use in the National Parks throughout Asheville on Wednesday and Thurs- 



the Dominion of Canada. These have day, June 10 and 11, 191-1. The Appa- 



been prepared in a very striking and lachian Park Association meets on the 



attractive form. Formerly such notices same day, and the night session of the 



were prepared on cloth and were easily Forestry Convention will be held under 



destroyed by the weather and not in- its auspices. 



frequently by porcupines. The new The program as previously arranged 



notices, however, are made of tin and will be carried out as closely as possi- 



the face with baked enamel. These ble. The afternoon drive through the 



metal notices will withstand any kind planted forests of the Biltmore Estate 



of weather and are far superior and and the day's trip through Pisgah For- 



much more durable than the old cloth est to see lumbering under proper for- 



notices. The initial cost is higher, but estry control as practiced by the Carr 



this is justified when the superior last- Lumber Company, are still prominent 



ing qualities of the tin over that of the and attractive features of the conven- 



cloth notices is taken into account. The tion. 



lettering is in red and black, sufficiently The courteous invitation of the 



large to be easily readable at a distance. Champion Fiber Company to visit their 



At the top of the notice is a picture of pulp mill at Canton is still open, and 



a forest fire, depicting in a vivid man- "o doubt many delegates will avail 



ner the ravage and devastating influ- themselves of this opportunity to see 



ence of fires to the timl)er resources of one of the largest and most interesting 



the country. factories of its kind in the country. 



These notices have been sent out to 



the various Park Superintendents and 



will be posted up in conspicuous places ^^""^ recently appointed members of 



throughout the National Parks. ^'""^ Forestry Committee of the National 



Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association 

 are J. R. Williams. Jr.. Chairman, care 

 During the month of April, 1014, a of f. Randall Williams & Co., Phila- 

 total of 206 acres of land within the delphia, Pa. ; E. A. Selfridge. Jr.. 

 Apache National Forest. Arizona, were Northwestern Redwood Co., Willitts, 

 listed with the Secretary of the Interior Cal. ; J. \". Stimson. Huntingl)urg, Ind. ; 

 and will shortly be opened to entry un- E. N. Wheeler, Wheeler & Dusenbury, 

 der the Forest Homestead Act. The Endeavor. Pa. ; W. R. Butler, W. R. 

 lands thus listed were applied for indi- Butler & Co., Boston, Mass. ; J. S. Gil- 

 vidually by two applicants, and each lies. Gillies Brothers' Lumber Co.. Brae- 

 one of these tracts was examined by a side, Ont. ; J. B. White, Riordon Paper 



