14 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION January 



Appalachian and White Mountain re- Company ; and last year the seniors 

 gions all the forest lands that are avail- spent three months in camp in the 



able. This is a wise suggestion. But Ozark Mountains near Grandin, Mo., 



it might be extended to include other on the Missouri Mining and Lumber 



forest lands in the West, which are Company tract. The forest map and 



just as necessary as those mentioned, estimates which the class of 1907 made 



The Government should become the for this company proved so valuable 



owner of all forest lands that can be that this year several companies have 



procured in the entire country, for the applied to Professor Graves to have 



sake of preserving as much timber as the senior class come and camp on 



possible for the use of our descendants, their land. From among these offers 



"Congress should take this matter the tract of the Kaul Lumber Corn- 

 up at the earliest possible moment and pany in Coosa County, Alabama, has 

 appropriate whatever funds may be been chosen as the location of the 

 necessary to put the project into exe- camp for the spring of 1906. 

 cution. Such action would be ap- The region is midway between the 

 proved by every patriotic American." coastal plains and the mountains, in a 



rolling country where the forests of 



Yale Forest The enrollment of the longleaf pine and many other trees 



School Yale Forest School this make a delightful field for forestry 



°*^^ year is 61 ; of which 32 work. The students will live in a 



are in the Senior class, and 29 in the camp located at an elevation of about 



Junior class, besides 9 undergraduates 800 feet above the sea, 20 miles from 



in the Sheffield Scientific School of the town of Hollins, and near a spur 



Yale who are beginning the regular of the logging railroad. The work will 



forest school course. This is a slight be similar to that done last spring, in- 



increase over last year. eluding the making of a topographic 



In the series of special lectures on map of the whole tract, estimating and 



lumbering in the Yale Forest School, describing all the stands of timber, and 



made possible by the gift of the Na- preparing a working plan for the tract, 



tional Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- There will also be abundant facilities 



ciation, there have been three lecturers for the study of land surveying, com- 



this fall, each of which talked to the parison of different methods of esti- 



Senior class two or three times — Mr. mating standing timber, and detailed 



J. P. Hughes, lumberman in the instruction in logging and construction 



United States Forest Service; Mr. of roads. Part of the term will be 



Robert H. Munson of Bay Mills, spent in the mill and lumber yards at 



Mich. ; and Mr. Robert C. Lippincott, Hollins, where the students will be- 



a wholesale lumber merchant of Phila- come familiar with sawmill operations, 



delphia. grading and handling lumber, and 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot also spoke to office management, 

 the students of the Forest School on 



November 15th and i6th. Miners At the American Min- 



MiUl^rf"" ing Congress, held re- 

 Yale The senior class of the M:ssxssipp:ans ^^^^j^ in^jopH^, Mo., it 



Alabama ^^^^ ^^^^^^ School this was found that the members of the 

 year, as in the past four congress were unanimous in their sup- 

 years, will spend the spring term in port of the Federal administration's 

 practical field work on a large tract of forest policy. A resolution was pass- 

 forest land. The classes of 1904 and ed, commending the President's efforts 

 1905 were at Milford, Pa., on the es- in behalf of the wise disposition of the 

 tate of Mr. James W. Pinchot; the public lands in the interests of the 

 class of 1906 was at Waterville, N. H., actual home-seeker, and in the inter- 

 on the land of the International Paper ests of the bona fide miner. The same 



