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works, which are not included in an 

 investigation covering only manufac- 

 tured commodities. 



The wood-using industries require 45 

 kinds of wood, of which 20 grow in 

 Minnesota and all but three are native 

 to the United States. 



The widening and repairing of the 

 roads in the Mesa Verde National Park 

 is what is most needed to make that 

 reservation accessible to tourists, ac- 

 cording to the annual report of the 

 superintendent. This park is in south- 

 western Colorado and has an area of 

 about seventy-six square miles. 



Secretary Lane, of the Interior De- 

 partment, has asked the President to 

 withdraw certain lands for the pro- 

 posed Denver Mountain Park, Colo- 

 rado, pending consideration by Congress 

 of a bill for the creation of the park. 

 The area covered by this withdrawal is 

 over 34,000 acres. In a general way 

 this land is of no substantial value for 

 agricultural, mineral or other purposes, 

 though it is an ideal location for a park. 

 It is in a region of broken land, rocky 

 in character and having many canyons, 

 but the City of Denver desires to in- 

 close the tract, if ceded to it for park 

 purposes, police it, build drives to and 

 through it, and, generally speaking, 

 make it one of the additional attractions 

 of the city. 



The Northern Forest Protective As- 

 sociation of Michigan has just com- 

 pleted the posting of nearly one thou- 

 sand direction signs upon the outlying 

 roads and trails of the Upper Peninsula. 

 These signs were put up solely as a 

 kindness to woods travelers, and to 

 properly direct them to the location 

 being sought or to a place where pro- 

 tection and lodging could be found. 



This is the first effort with any 

 breadth of scope to properly designate 

 the roads and camps of the Peninsula, 

 and if it meets with the approval of 

 the general public it will be continued 

 until it is almost impossible for one not 

 familiar with the woods to become lost. 



During the season of 1913 travel to 

 the Mount Rainier National Park in- 

 creased 52 per cent as compared with 

 1912, according to the annual report of 

 the superintendent, recently made to 

 Secretary Lane. Mount Rainier is one 

 of the most accessible of the national 

 parks, being only 56 miles from Tacoma 

 and 93 miles from Seattle. 



Near the center of the park is the 

 summit of Mount Rainier, from which 

 radiates a system of glaciers ranking 

 in importance with any similar system 

 or group of glaciers in the world. 

 There are more than a score of these 

 glaciers from which flow headwaters of 

 four important rivers — the Nisqually, 

 the Puyallup, the White, and the Cow- 

 litz. 



California led last year in timber sold from national forests, though Montana has the largest 

 number of sale transactions. 



The biological survey and the forest service have been co-operating in the extermination of ground 

 squirrels on national forests in California. The annual loss of range feed and grain crops from 

 ground squirrels is enormous. 



