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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



whereas the American mills must em- 

 ploy American vessels only. 



To the uninitiated, this would look all 

 right, but it is not, for the following 

 reasons : 



First, that an American steamer 

 costs just about double as much as a 

 vessel built, say, in Great Britain. Then 

 our laws and regulations compel us to 

 carry more men than any foreign ship 

 carries. More wages to our men, high- 

 er cost of feeding them, greater ton- 

 nage measurement and many other 

 charges that the American vessel must 

 pay, which are too numerous to ex- 

 plain in this article. 



Suffice to say, that if the American 



ship has to pay tolls of $1.20. then for 

 deck load say 40 cents per M extra, it 

 will add about $1.60 per M of lumber. 



The foreign ship will carry lumber 

 from British Columbia to, say, New 

 York, for $3.85 less than the American 

 vessel, thereby putting our American 

 mills completely out of the running. All 

 this comes immediately after having put 

 lumber on the free list. 



It is a stunning blow to the lumber 

 industry of this coast. The lumbermen 

 demand relief of Congress by allowing 

 them to use the same vessels as their 

 competitors in British Columbia, there- 

 by putting them on an equality. 



PACIFIC COAST CONDITIONS 



A MERICAN FORESTRY has ar- 

 / \ ranged for a series of articles on 

 I \ western lumber conditions and 

 problems, w^ith the idea of pre- 

 senting the practical inside viewpoint of 

 some of the big men in the business 

 there. These articles will include a 

 commercial sketch of the merchantable 

 western species of lumber, the little 

 known ones also, and will tell of the 

 many uses of this lumber, some new 

 ones having been recently discovered. 

 There will also be articles on the world's 

 markets and the trend of trade, the pos- 

 sibilities of extending the trade, on the 

 transportation from mill to market, the 

 various features of production and the 

 problems connected with it, the closer 

 utilization and the uses of special prod- 

 ucts and by-products, and an analysis of 

 the situation of private timber holders 

 covering investment, fire protection, in- 

 terest and taxes. 



All these articles will be designed to 

 give to the general public a knowledge 

 of western forest conditions which the 

 public does not now possess, and they 

 will be found of decided value and much 

 interest. 



As the American Forestry Association 

 and its magazine American Forestry, 

 in its now rapid development, finds it 

 necessary to keep in close touch with 

 the forestry and lumbering conditions 

 in the chief forested regions, plans are 

 being rapidly perfected to have its in- 

 formation from these various regions, 

 of the most reliable and accurate char- 

 acter. 



The Pacific coast region has the 

 largest and most valuable forests in the 

 country and Mr. E. T. Allen, of Port- 

 land, Ore., the forester of the Western 

 Forestry and Conservation Association, 

 has agreed to assist American For- 

 estry in presenting the articles in refer- 

 ence to conditions there. 



Ranchers Fight Fires. 



Ranchers within and adjacent to the Sierra National Forest, California, have forrned 

 a cooperative association for the prevention of forest fires. They need to use fire in clearing 

 land for farming, and will do it on a conimur^ity basis, with all members present to prevent 

 the fires' spread. 



