4 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION January 



effect. It is to secure instruction in be the largest paper pulp mill in the 



forestry in the State Agricultural Col- world. Haywood County has wel- 



leges throughout the Union, and ex- corned this pulp mill, and many talk of 



periments in forestry to be made by the the great progress the county is now 



State Experiment Stations. The pro- making toward prosperity. They look 



posal is to add to the Morrill and upon the million dollar building which 



Hatch funds, by which the colleges is being put up as the greatest thing 



and stations are endowed, $2,500 for that has ever happened in the county, 



each of these purposes — so much for True, there is more money in circula- 



forestry instruction to students, and tion in the county to-day than ever be- 



the same amount for research, making fore, but when those of us who have 



a total of $5,000. traveled over the counties of New 



The Davis bill, aiming at this end Hampshire, Vermont and Michigan, 



in a previous Congress, has been re- where nothmg but fire-blackened 



drafted, and it is to be hoped that it stumps are to be seen, look forward, 



will receive earnest support from the it does not require a very vivid im- 



country. The income derived from agmation to see that Haywood Coun- 



the National Forests has been used ty in thirty years from now will be the 



for several years to put the United "^ost desolate section of Western 



States Forest Service on a good foot- North Carolina. If the Government 



ing. At its last session Congress di- does not take a hand and regulate the 



rected that the income should no long- cutting of the forests of our steep 



er be used for this purpose, but cov- mountain sides, places like Haywood 



ered into the Treasury. What could County with to-day their million dol- 



be more appropriate than to use a por- lar paper pulp plants, will in another 



tion of it for adding to the people's generation, in all probability, be aban- 



knowledge of methods of preserving doned wastes and desolate lands." 

 and economizing the woodland re- Truer words were never spoken. If 



sources which they possess outside the the people of Haywood County, North 



National Forests? Four-fifths of the Carolina, want to learn m advance 



woods of the country are in private what their great million dollar pulp 



hands ; and a large share of these are mill will mean to the community, let 



in the shape of farm woodlots. The them get into touch with some of the 



farmers, at their colleges, should be communities referred to by Dr. Am- 



taught to improve their timber crop bier. They should have heard, for ex- 



as well as other crops. ample, the words spoken to Secretary 



Will on the occasion of his recent 

 meeting (November 27) at Bay City, 

 •^Prosperity" In Forest and Stream Mich., by some representative citizens 

 That Means £qj. November 2d ap- of that place. In terms well weighed 

 ^^^ * ^ pears a letter from Dr. but weighty and blistering they de- 

 C. P. Ambler, of Asheville, N. C, scribed the bygone reign of the lum- 

 sketching the history of the Appa- bermen in their city and region, the 

 lachian movement, reporting the Ashe- crisis which followed the abrupt end- 

 ville meeting addressed by Secretary ing of the lumber business, the long. 

 Will, giving the resolution adopted slow period of recuperation and their 

 and saying: "There has been estab- wholesome dread lest the policy of re- 

 lished in the heart of the section under forestation, now so actively urged in 

 consideration (the Southern Appa- Michigan, might result in a repetition 

 lachian region) one of the largest of the old-time experiences. The burnt 

 tanneries in the world ; there is now children fear the fire, and the citizens 

 being built at Canton, thirty miles of Haywood County may profitably 

 west of Asheville, what is expected to learn from their experience. 



