33,000 ACRES MORE 



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ent timber tax is levied annually, ever 

 increasing, and forces the owner to cut 

 some trees before they are actually 

 ready to cut. The future will demand 

 that a nominal tax be levied, annually, 

 upon the land, and a fair revenue paid 

 by the owner upon the timber when it is 

 logged. 



Cooperation with Federal, private, 

 county and other agencies will enable 

 the State to realize to the fullest extent 

 the enjoyment of her natural resources. 



We do not believe that the people of 

 California, nor of any other State of 



this great Union, citizens alive to the 

 right sort of government, are going to 

 remain quiet and fail to take a stand 

 for the conservation and wholesome de- 

 velopment of their natural wealth. The 

 future will demand of us a reckoning; 

 let us make the future monuments to 

 our industrial success productive for- 

 ests instead of devastated areas of 

 charred stumps noted only for their 

 forests of the past. The possible floods 

 and dry river beds of the future can be 

 largely prevented by protecting our for- 

 ests now. 



33,000 ACRES MORE 



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LITTLE more than 33,000 acres 

 in the White Mountains have 

 just been approved for purchase 

 by the Government at a meet- 

 ing: of the national forest reservation 

 commission. 



These areas are in two separate 

 tracts, both in Grafton County, New 

 Hampshire, the larger containing 31,100 

 acres on the watershed of the Pemige- 

 wasset River, a tributary to the Merri- 

 mac. The tract comes within a mile of 

 North Woodstock on the Boston and 

 Maine Railroad, and several good 

 roads lead through it. The land is 

 between 700 and 4,300 feet in eleva- 

 tion, and in the lower valleys are a 

 number of abandoned farms now grown 

 up to trees. Most of the conifers have 

 been cut to make paper pulp, but there 

 are good stands of beech, birch, and 

 maple of considerable value. With fire 

 kept out there is said to be excellent 



promise of a new stand of spruce. The 

 price agreed upon by the Goverment is 

 $4.62 an acre, including both land and 

 timber. 



The smaller purchase consists of sev- 

 eral areas lying on the watersheds of 

 Little River and Gale River, both trib- 

 utaries of the Connecticut. These 

 lands cover 2,000 acres and are con- 

 tiguous to lands already approved for 

 purchase ; hence they go far toward giv- 

 ing the Government a solid body of 

 land in this locality. The price for the 

 2,000 acres, land and timber, is $4.00 

 an acre. The tract is in the locality of 

 the noted Franconia Range and is read- 

 ily accessible from two railroad sta- 

 tions, Bethlehem and Twin Mountain. 

 The forest has been cut over and con- 

 sists chiefly of the northern hardwoods, 

 though some spruce remains from the 

 original stand. 



Apache Forest Notes. 



The altitudes of the Apache Forest vary from .'5,800 feet to 11,463 feet above sea level. 



A total of 2,692 acres was burned over by forest fires in 1913. 



There are six sawmills and two shingle mills located within the Apache Forest. 



There are approximately 20,000 acres of land within the Forest in patented homesteads 

 or in homestead claims. 



