NEWS AND NOTES 



, Members and friends rectors of the Association will be 

 Meeting"" ^^^^ remember that the held at 4 o'clock p. m. on Tuesday, 

 Annual Meeting of the January 28th, at the office of the Sec- 

 American Forestry Association oc- retary of Agriculture, 

 curs on Wednesday, January 29, at On arriving in Washington, mem- 

 the New Willard Hotel in Washing- bers of the Association are requested 

 ton, D. C. The sessions begin at 10 to register at room 305, Epiphany 

 o'clock in the morning and continue Building, 131 1 G street northwest, 

 through the afternoon and evening, the office of the American Forestry 

 The reception, earlier announced to Association. 



be held at the residence of Mr. and Every member of the Association 



Mrs. J. W. Pinchot and Mr. Gif- who can possibly attend is earnestly 



ford Pinchot, the Forester, has, on urged to be present to make this the 



account of the severe illness of Mr. greatest and most representative meet- 



J. W. Pinchot, been cancelled. The ing of the Association ever held, and 



evening of Wednesday will, however, to aid in the most effective way in se- 



be packed full of important busi- curing the enactment of the Appala- 



ness. chian-White Mountain bill. 



The program for the meeting is 

 far advanced in point of preparation. Freight Rates The Pacific Coast Lum- 

 but cannot as yet be definitely an- And Tree i^gj. Manufacturers' As- 

 nounced. Much attention will be Cutting sociation, the North- 

 given to the Appalachian-White western Lumber Association, and 

 Mountain question, and, in an im- other lumbermen, are endeavoring to 

 portant sense, the meeting will con- secure from Congress a law that new 

 stitute a preparation for the hearing freight rates, higher than the old, 

 before the Committee on Agriculture shall not go into force, if protested 

 of the House of Representatives to against by shippers, until their reason- 

 begin on the following day at 10 ableness has been approved by the 

 o'clock a. m. Distinguished and able Interstate Commerce Commission, 

 speakers are expected to handle such They claim that when the shipper is 

 topics as the following: The situa- dissatisfied with an already existing 

 tion regarding our natural resources, rate, as being too high, he cannot re- 

 forestry as a National and State prob- duce it -without the delay and trouble 

 lem, co-operation between Govern- of a hearing before the Commission; 

 ment and timberland owners, forests and that it would, therefore, be only 

 and the health of the Nation, the inter- fair if the railroad, when dissatisfied 

 est of the South in the Appalachian with a rate, as being too low, should 

 National Forests, the interest of the be subject to the same restraint in se- 

 North in the White Mountain Na- cnrinp' a change. 



tional Forests, the need of forest con- In its application to lumber ship- 

 servation in West Virgina, flood dam- rnents this proposition has an import- 

 age from Appalachian rivers, erosion ant bearing on the forest situation on 

 in the Southern Appalachian Moun- the Pacific coast. Mr. A. B. Wastell. 

 tains and its effect on navigable riv- secretary of the association, writes 

 ers, need of Southern Appalachian that a raise of freight rates will great- 

 forests for protection of waterpow- ly reduce the thoroughness with which 

 ers. relation of mountain forests to the trees cut in the Pacific Northwest 

 water navigation, and the question, are utilized. The rates heretofore paid 

 Is the Appalachian-White Mountain have been so high that any higher 

 bill constitutional ? rates will render it unprofitable to ship 



The meetinp- n£ the Board of Di- the cheaper grades of lumber and tim- 



